I am a theater artist and scholar of contemporary performance based now in Brooklyn after many years in Berlin. I am also clinical associate professor of theater in the English Department at New York University, where I serve as the director of the Program in Dramatic Literature.
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My work often probes theater’s possibilities as a social practice, and I have co-founded and co-directed three ensembles – Culinary Theater, Shakespeare im Park Berlin (2010-14) and the UC Movement for Efficient Privatization [UCMeP] (2009-11) – all of which explore contested public spaces as sites for postdramatic experimentation.
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As a teacher and a scholar, I am interested in modern and contemporary theater and performance, critical and aesthetic theory, public arts policy, as well as theories and practices of directing, devised theater, community-based and tactical performance. My book, Institutional Theatrics: Performing Arts Policy in Post-Wall Berlin was published by Northwestern University Press in 2021.
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I am developing a number of projects: an outdoor foray into collective consolation via the United States Postal Service; a gustatory and olfactory exploration of NYC neighborhood texture; and an autobiographical reimagining of Mother Courage as a site of the destruction of the American “home.”