- World of Wires Premieres at The Kitchen January 6, 2012 : Tickets Here
- Scheib named 2011 Guggenheim Fellow!
- Scheib to Direct a new dance theater work with choreographer Yin Mei and the Hong Kong Dance Company, March 16, 2012

2011 Guggenheim Fellow, Scheib is a Writer, director and designer of plays, operas, and installations. His work has been presented throughout Europe and the U.S. He is Associate Professor for Music and Theater Arts at Massachusetts Institute of Technology and a frequent Guest Professor for Acting and Directing at both the Mozarteum in Salzburg, Austria and the Norwegian Theater Academy in Fredrikstad. Based dually in Cambridge and New York, Scheib's recent works include a mulitmedia staging of Evan Ziporyn's new opera A House in Bali as part of Brooklyn Academy of Music's Next Wave Festival, a sold- out run of Bellona, Destroyer of Cities at The Kitchen in New York, Beethoven's Fidelio at the Saarlandisches Staatstheater Saarbrücken, and a new production of Bertolt Brecht's Puntila und Sein Knecht Matti at Theater Augsburg, Augsburg, Germany.

(Full Biography Here)

Mixing multimedia with deadpan-cool (and very sexy) actors, Scheib is forging new ways of seeing drama. - Time Out New York

 

SIMULATED CITIES / SIMULATED SYSTEMS

World of Wires, after the SciFi TV Series by Fassbinder
Premieres January 6, 2012 at The Kitchen (World of Wires Press Release Here)

In development is a trilogy of hybrid performance works under the banner, Simulated Cities / Simulated Systems. All three have been developed In residence at Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Untitled Mars (This Title May Change) premiered at Performance Space 122 (April 2008) in New York followed by performances at the Hungarian National Theater, Budapest; Bellona Destroyer of Cities played a sold out run at The Kitchen (April 2010) and was presented as part of the Maison des Arts Cretéil (MAC) Exit Festival in Paris followed by a run at the Institute of Contemporary Art Boston, (May 2011) ; Part 3, World of Wires will premiere at The Kitchen January 6, 2012. Envisioned as an ongoing series of collaborations across disciplines, Simulated Cities / Simulated Systems flows an exchange of ideas with aerospace and astronautics, architecture and conceptual civil engineering, computer science and artificial intelligence.

(More Information Here) (Bellona, Destroyer of Cities Here)

A House in Bali
Cal Performances / BAM Next Wave Festival
(PDF)

Bellona, Destroyer of Cities
The Kitchen NYC / ICA Boston
(PDF)

Puntila und sein Knecht Matti
Theater Augsburg, Germany
(PDF)

Addicted to Bad Ideas, Peter Lorre's 20th Century
Peak Performances / UTR Webster Hall / Spoleto Festival USA
(PDF)

Untitled Mars (This Title May Change)
PS122 / National Theater Budapest
(PDF)

This Place is a Desert,
ICA Boston / UTR Public Theater
(PDF)

The Power of Darkness
TRAFO Budapest
(PDF)

Draußen tobt die Dunkelziffer
Mozarteum, Salzburg
(PDF)

Mozart Luster Lustik
Sava Center, Belgrade

Herakles
Chashama, NYC
(PDF)

Persona
Reading at ICA Boston

World of Wires
The Kitchen (2012)

Fidelio
Staatstheater Saarbrücken, Germany (2011)

Women Dreamt Horses
Performance Space 122, NYC
(PDF)

Bambiland
(PDF)

MargarethHamlet
All Good Everything Good
with Margareth Kammerer
(PDF)

Kommander Kobayashi
Staatstheater Saarbrücken, Germany
(PDF)

Our Town
MIT, Cambridge MA
(PDF)

Lorenzaccio
Loeb Drama Center, Harvard
(PDF)

The Demolition Downlown
MIT, Cambridge MA
(PDF)

The Making of Americans
The Walker Art Center, Mpls (PDF)

The Vomit Talk of Ghosts
The Flea Theater, NYC
(PDF)

West Pier
Ohio Theater, NYC
(PDF)

In This is the End of Sleeping
Chekhov Now Festival
(PDF)

The Medea
LaMaMa ETC, NYC
(PDF)

Falling and Waving
Arts at St. Ann's, Brooklyn NY
(PDF)

The War Plays
Mozarteum, Salzburg
(PDF)

 

SPONSORSHIP

The Kitchen's presentation of World of Wires is made possible with public funds from the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs and the New York State Council on the Arts, a state agency.

Additional support provided by the Guggenheim Fellowship, Massachusetts Institute of Technology School of Humanities, Arts and Social Sciences, New York State Council on the Arts Individual Artist Theater Commissioning Program, the Greenwall Foundation, MIT Council for the Arts, a residency at the Clemente Soto Vélez Cultural and Educational Center, and the Südtiroler Künstlerförderung. World of Wires was supported by a Lower Manhattan Cultural Council residency at Building 110: LMCC's Arts Center at Governors Island.

We greatly appreciate the support of all the individuals and institutions listed above. Donors are listed in alphabetical order and not separated by amounts. Please consider contributing to the productions of Jay Scheib and Tanya Selvaratnam. Your name will be added to the list above or you may choose to remain anonymous.

If you are interested in being a contributor next season, please contact jayscheib@jayscheib.com

Producer of Simulated Cities / Simulated Systems
Tanya Selvaratnam, 1.917. 754.4179
tselvar@aol.com

Press Contact:
Blake Zidell & Associates
tel: 718.643.9052
fax: 718.643.9502
blake@blakezidell.com

Worldwide Tour Representation:
(Untitled Mars, Addicted to Bad Ideas,and Bellona)
Thomas O. Kriegsmann, President
ArKtype, P.O. Box 1948; New York, NY 10027
http://www.arktype.org, 1.917.386.5468
tommy@arktype.org

for A House in Bali:
Kenny Savelson
, Executive Director
Bang on a Can, 80 Hanson Place, Suite 701
Brooklyn, NY 11217 USA, tel: +1 718.852.7755
fx: +1 718.852.7732, kenny@bangonacan.org
www.bangonacan.org

Jay Scheib, jayscheib@jayscheib.com, 1.917.612.2137