- A House in Bali composed by Evan Ziporyn will perform as part of BAM's Next Wave Festival 2010 — tickets are here!!
- 21C Magazine publishes an interview with Samuel R. Delany and Jay Scheib about the making of Bellona Destroyer of Cities

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

Artist Talk with Jay Scheib and Evan Ziporyn
October 15, Post-Show, BAM Next Wave Festival, New York City

FIDELIO, opera by Beethoven
01/30/11: Saarlandisches Staatstheater, Saarbruecken

BELLONA, DESTROYER OF CITIES, play after Samuel R. Delany's novel Dhalgren
05/11: Institute of Contemporary Arts Boston

PUNTILA UND SEIN KNECHT MATTI, play by Brecht
Dates TBA 2010: Theater Augsburg, Augsburg Germany

PERSONA, opera after the film by Bergman
December 23, 2010: Institute of Contemporary Arts, Boston

Writer, director and designer of plays, operas, and installations, Scheib's work has been presented throughout Europe and the U.S. He is Associate Professor for Music and Theater Arts at Massachusetts Institute of Technology and a frequent Guest Professor for Acting and Directing at both the Mozarteum in Salzburg, Austria and the Norwegian Theater Academy in Fredrikstad. Based dually in Cambridge and New York, Scheib's recent works include a sold- out run of Bellona, Destroyer of Cities at The Kitchen in New York and a new production of Bertolt Brecht's Puntila und Sein Knecht Matti at Theater Augsburg, Augsburg, Germany.

(Full Biography Here)

Mixing multimedia with deadpan-cool (and very sexy) actors, Scheib is forging new ways of seeing drama. - Time Out New York

SIMULATED CITIES / SIMULATED SYSTEMS

In development is a trilogy of hybrid performance works under the banner, Simulated Cities / Simulated Systems. All three are 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 will be presented at the Institute of Contemporary Art Boston, (May 2011) ;Part 3, World of Wires will premiere at The Kitchen in the 2012 season. 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.

(More Information Here) (Bellona, Destroyer of Cities Here)

SPONSORSHIP

LEAD SPONSORS OF BELLONA, DESTROYER OF CITIES
The Kitchen with public funds from the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs and the New York State Council on the Arts, a state agency; The Cultural Services of the French Embassy in the United States; The Experimental Television Center’s Presentation Funds, supported by the New York State Council on the Arts; The Lucius and Eva Eastman Fund; Massachusetts Institute of Technology Office of the Associate Provost and School of Humanities, Arts and Social Sciences

INDIVIDUAL CONTRIBUTORS
Very special thanks to the following individual contributors: Anonymous, Winsome Brown & Claude Arpels, Elaine Chen, Merry Conway, Lisa Cortes, Shari Frilot & Roya Rastegar, Jennifer Gibbs & Luis Castro, Agnes Gund, Catherine Gund, Mitch Hurley, Leila Kinney, Marty & Valerie Levenstein, Edward McKeaney, Shira Milikowsky, Walter Mosley, Charles Rice-Gonzalez, Therese Selvaratnam, Lucy Sexton, Audry & Alex Weintrob, Jed Weintrob, Kim Whitener, Soon-Young Yoon & Rick Smith

We greatly appreciate the support of all the individuals and institutions listed above. 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.

To make a donation by credit card, please visit the following link: https://www.thefield.org/ContributionToSA.aspx? Select  “Jay Scheib” in the drop-down menu. Or you may write a check made out to “The Field” with “Jay Scheib” in the memo line and send it to: Tanya Selvaratnam; 504 Grand Street, H13; New York, NY  10002

The Field is a not-for-profit, tax-exempt, 501 (c) (3) organization serving the New York City performing arts community. Contributions made to The Field and earmarked for Jay Scheib/Tanya Selvaratnam are tax-deductible to the extent allowed by law. For more information about The Field contact: The Field, 161 Sixth Avenue, New York, NY 10013, (212) 691-6969, fax: (212) 255-2053. A copy of The Field's latest annual report may be obtained, upon request, from The Field or from the Office of the Attorney General, Charities Bureau, 120 Broadway, New York, NY 10271.

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