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Director Jay Scheib recently premiered his adaptation of Tolstoy's The Power of Darkness with Pont Mühely in Budapest at the TRAFO House of Contemporary Arts.
Other recent works include The
Medea after Heiner Müller and Euripides at La Mama in New York City with subsequent performances in Istanbul and Adana Turkey, and
a multimedia adaptation titled In
this is the End of Sleeping after Chekhov’s Patonov
fragment for the Chekhov Now Festival in NYC.
Other credits include: New York Premier of Kevin Oakes’ The Vomit
Talk of Ghosts at the Flea Theater; The Demolition Downtown by Tennessee Williams at MIT (pictured at left); Musset’s Lorenzaccio
at the Loeb Drama Center; Koltès’ West Pier at the Ohio
Theatre; Falling and Waving, at Arts at St. Ann’s in Brooklyn.
Projects in Berlin include MARGARETHHAMLET at Schwedterstr 12; an
adaptation of Aeschylus’ trilogy ORESTIA AMERICA AMERICA, dreamlife of thousandaire affluence commissioned
by the Exiles Festival, Berliner Staatsbank; two new plays by Lothar Trolle,
Fernsehen and Vormittag in der Freiheit on the 3.Stock Volksbuehne
am Rosa-Luxemburg-Platz in Berlin, co-production BAT. Other international credits: Glass/Moan
and THIS PLACE IS A DESERT, both in Budapest; The War Plays
by Edward Bond, and In the Solitude of the Cotton Fields by Bernard-Marie
Koltès, at the Mozarteum, Salzburg Austria. Winner of the Richard
Sherwood Award, The Wade Award and numerous fellowships, Scheib is a regular guest professor at the Mozarteum Institute für
Schauspiel und Regie, in Salzburg, Austria. He holds an MFA from Columbia University.
Jay Scheib is the Theater Arts major departure advisor advisor.
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