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- Scheib's staging of Beethoven's Fidelio premieres at the Saarländisches Staatstheater Saarbrücken 29 January, runs thru June 2011
- A House in Bali composed by Evan Ziporyn at Brooklyn Academy of Music's Next Wave Festival 2010
- 21C Magazine publishes an interview with Samuel R. Delany and Jay Scheib about the making of Bellona Destroyer of Cities
FIDELIO, opera by Beethoven
01/29/11: Saarlandisches Staatstheater, Saarbruecken
BELLONA, DESTROYER OF CITIES, play after Samuel R. Delany's novel Dhalgren
17, 18, 19 March 2011: Maison des Arts / Cretéil : (Paris) France
13, 14, 15 May 2011: Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston
A HOUSE IN BALI, opera by Evan Ziporyn
October 8-9, 2010: Cutler Majestic Theater, Boston
October 14-16, 2010: BAM Next Wave Festival, New York City
PUNTILA UND SEIN KNECHT MATTI, play by Brecht
Dates TBA 2010: Theater Augsburg, Augsburg Germany
Jay Scheib directs The American Academy in Rome CABARET
10/ 26/10 Curated by Laurie Anderson.
Director, Designer, Writer of Plays and libretti, Jay Scheib’s Jay Scheib’s current and upcoming productions include a new staging of Evan Ziporyn'sA House in Bali at Brooklyn Academy of Music's Next Wave Festival, and a new staging of Beethoven's Fidelio at the Saarländische Staatstheater in Saarbrücken. Last year, Brecht's Puntila und sein Knecht Matti premiered at Theater Augsburg in Germany, and Bellona, Destroyer of Cities played to sold out houses at The Kitchen in New York and will be presented later this year at Maison des Arts / Cretéil (Paris) followed by a run at the Institute of Contemporary Art in Boston. Other recent works include Untitled Mars (This Title May Change), which premiered at Performance Space 122 in New York followed by a tour to the National Theatre in Budapest, Hungary, and This Place is a Desert, which premiered at Boston’s Institute of Contemporary Art followed by a sold-out run at the Public Theater in New York as part of the Under the Radar Festival. Untitled Mars received an Obie Award for Scenic Design; This Place is a Desert was named one of the Ten Best Shows of 2008 by Time Out New York. Concurrent with these productions, Scheib’s collaboration with punk rock ensemble World/Inferno Friendship Society, Addicted to Bad Ideas, toured to numerous venues around the world, including Spoleto Festival USA, Peak Performances in Montclair, and the Luminato Festival in Toronto. Other international works include the world premiere of Irene Popovic’s opera Mozart Luster Lustik in Belgrade, Serbia, Lothar Trolle’s Ein Vormittag in der Freitheit at the Volksbühne am Rosa-Luxemburg-Platz, Berlin and a new staging of the Novoflot science fiction opera saga Kommander Kobayashi in Saarbruecken, Germany. In the Spring of 2009, Scheib was listed Best New York Theater Director by Time Out New York, and American Theater Magazine called him one of twenty-five theater artists shaping the next twenty five years of American theater. Born in Shenandoah, Iowa, Scheib is a recipient of the MIT Edgerton Award, The Richard Sherwood Award, and the NEA/TCG Program for Directors. He is a regular guest professor at the Mozarteum in Salzburg, Austria and is Associate Professor for Music and Theater Arts at MIT.
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.
A House in Bali Bellona, Destroyer of Cities Puntila und sein Knecht Matti Addicted to Bad Ideas, Peter Lorre's 20th Century Untitled Mars (This Title May Change) This Place is a Desert, The Power of Darkness Draußen tobt die Dunkelziffer Mozart Luster Lustik Herakles Persona World of Wires Fidelio Women Dreamt Horses |
Bambiland MargarethHamlet Kommander Kobayashi Our Town Lorenzaccio The Demolition Downlown The Making of Americans The Vomit Talk of Ghosts West Pier In This is the End of Sleeping The Medea Falling and Waving The War Plays
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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
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