We are very fortunate this quarter to have theaterwriter, director and designer John Jesurun as a guest director for the JohnWells Graduate Directing Program.
John will give a presentation on his work this Friday,November 11 at 4:30 in the Checco Studio A. Everyone is invited to attend.
John Jesurun beganbegan his theatrical career in 1982 at the Pyramid Club on the Lower East Sidewith his groundbreaking serial play Chang in a Void Moon, now in its 60th episode. Since then has been apioneering force in the use of film and video in live performance. His earlyinterest in issues of identity, presence, and communication has been extendedover the years to the digital age. As a writer, director, and designer, he hascreated unique forms of narrative that capture the dislocation and anxiety ofcontemporary life in real, virtual, and performance spaces. His work rangeswidely from storytelling to classics to computer-based theatre as well as HarryPartch's seminal opera "Delusion of the Fury", music video for JeffBuckley, and his play “Philoktetes” with Noh theater master Hideo Kanze. He isa recipient of the Rockefeller, Guggenheim, MacArthur, Foundation forContemporary Arts Fellowships. His company toured extensively in Europe and the United States. Workpresented at the Next Wave Festival, BAM, La Mama, the Kitchen, the Walker ArtsCenter, the Wexner Center, La Mama, Vienna Festival, Spoleto USA, RoyalFestival Hall/London. Recent publications: “Shatterhand Massacree and otherMedia Texts”, Performing Arts Journal. “ A Media Trilogy” - NoPassport Press.
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