About Me

I am a theater artist and scholar of contemporary performance based now in Brooklyn after many years in Berlin. I am also Clinical Professor of English at New York University, where I direct the Program in Dramatic Literature.

Theater & Performance

My work probes theater’s possibilities as a civic practice. Over the last twenty years,  I co-founded and co-directed three ensembles – Culinary Theater, Shakespeare im Park Berlin, and the UC Movement for Efficient Privatization [UCMeP] – all of which explore contested public spaces as sites for postdramatic experimentation and alternative forms of sociality.

Research & Writing

As a teacher and a scholar, I am interested in modern and contemporary theater and performance, critical and aesthetic theory, public arts policy, olfactory and gustatory art, as well as community-based and site-specific performance. My book, Institutional Theatrics: Performing Arts Policy in Post-Wall Berlin was published by Northwestern University Press in 2021.

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