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Selected National and International Collaborations, Theater Productions, Opera, and Studio Works
This Season 07/08


Addicted to Bad Ideas, Peter Lorre's 20th Century, at the Philadelphia Live Art Festival

Kommander Kobayashi Saarländisches Staatstheater, Saarbrücken Deutschland

This Place is a Desert at the Institute of Conetmporary Art, Boston Massachusetts

Draußen tobt die Dunkelziffer Kathrin Röggla att the Mozarteum in Salzburg


GLASS/MOHN with Pont Muhely at MU Szinhaz, Budapest Hungary


Falling and Waving, a digital opera, Arts at St Ann's, Brooklyn New York


Women Dreamt Horses by Daniel Veronese at Performance Space 122


The Power of Darkness after Tolstoy with Pont Muhely at TRAFO in Budapest Hungary

Herakles after Euripides Müller Seneca and Händel at Chashama NYC 2000

Past Works

This Place is a Desert a live-cinema peformance, inspired by Antonioni and Casavettes. World Premiere March 22, 2007 as part of the inaugural season of the Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston. New York City Premier January 9, 2008 at the Public Theater in New York as Part of the Under the Radar Festival

Kommander Kobayashi
as part of the science fiction opera-saga from Novoflot at the Staatstheater Saarbruecken in Germany. June 2007.

Our Town
by Thorton Wilder, production with students from MIT Dramashop, Cambridge

Mozart Luster Lustik opera by Irena Popovic, World Premier, Sava Center, Belgrade, Serbia

All Good Everything Good After Shakespeare. Live art performance installation with Margareth Kammerer, Raum (Space) Bologna, Italy

Shelter by Saska Rakef, studio performance New York Theater Workshop as part of the European Dream Festival, NYC; studio performance Glej Theater, Preglej Festival Ljubljana, Slovenia

Women Dreamt Horses by Daniel Veronese, American premiere November 2006 at PS122 in New York as part of BAiT - Buenos Aires in Translation.

Bambiland by Elfriede Jelinek, Norwegian Theater Academy, premiere spring 2006 Fredrikstad, fall 2006 Oslo, Norway


Draussen tobt die Dunkelziffer
by Kathrin Röggla, at the Mozarteum in Salzburg Austria, Performances in February 2006 and again in August


The Medea after Euripides and Heiner Müller will premier at La Mama in January 05 produced by ITO-NY Actors without Borders and LaMama ETC.

Retour au Desert
after the play by Bernard-Marie Koltès, SoHo Rep R&D studio work, SoHo Repertory Theatre, NYC

The Demolition Downtown
by Tennessee Williams, productions with MIT Dramashop, Cambridge

In this is the End of Sleeping after Chekhov’s Platonov Chekhov Now Festival, at the Connelly NYC

Vomit Talk of Ghosts by Kevin Oakes at the Flea Theatre in
New York City (June 2004)

Power of Darkness after Leo Tolstoy with Pont Muhely in Budapest September 2004/ May 2005 at TRAFO House of Contemporary Arts. Project developed in the spring of 2004 at MIT in Cambridge.

Lorenzaccio by Alfred de Musset with the Harvard Radcliff Dramatic Association, Fall 2003, Loeb Drama Center, Cambridge.

West Pier by Bernard-Marie Koltès. Produced as part of the Koltès NY 2003 Festival with Rotor Productions at the Ohio Theatre in SoHo, New York City

MARGARETHHAMLET
choreographic work for solo performer with guitar after the tragedy by Shakespeare, Schwedter Str. 12, month of March in Berlin, Germany

Ein Vormittag in der Freiheit und Hanswursteszene 2 Fernesehen [unter dem Title: “Sie Gestatten!”] by Lothar Trolle. co-production Volksbühne am Rosa-Luxemburg-Platz and ‘Ernst Busch,’ Volksbühne (3. Stock). Berlin.

ORESTEIA AMERICA dreamlife of thousandaire affluence,
opera for string quartet. Part one Agamemnon King of Pain premiers at the Exiles Festival in the Berliner Staatsbank.

The War Plays by Edward Bond (in german language Die Kriegsspiele, 2002) at the Mozarteum Institute for Acting and Directing, in Salzburg. With performances in Brno Czech Republic and Essen Germany.

Uveg es Mák (Glass Mohn), after texts by Tennessee Williams, Walter Benjamin and Paul Celan, Produced by Point Workshop. at Theater Mu, Budapest Hungary

In the Solitude of the Cottonfields, by Koltès, studio project, Mozarteum, Salzburg (2001)

The Caucasian Chalk Circle
, Brecht, Produced by Yale Dramatic Assoc. at Yale Repertory Theatre (2001)

Herakles
, after texts by Euripides, Heiner Müller, Pindar, Händel, at Chashama, NY NY; Herakles 5, by Heiner Müller, (as prologue to above) 2000, at Chashama Theatre, NYC

Godard (distant and right), adapt. J. Scheib, Theatre des Amandiers, Paris France, Winner of Grand Prix, Festival des Jeunes. 2000 (remounting of original NY production directed by Robert Woodruff)

Falling and Waving, digital opera composed by David Lang, Libretto by Ron Jones, with Vito Acconci and Kristin Linklater. co-commisioned by Brooklyn Academy of Music and Arts at St. Ann’s. (1999) Arts at St. Ann, Brooklyn NYC



 

This Place is a Desert
Premiers in New York City as part of the Under the Radar Festival, January 9 at 8pm, New York Public Theater

Untitled Mars (this title may change)
Premiers at Performance Space 122, April 2008

Addicted to Bad Ideas, Peter Lorre's 20th Century
a media-evening of songs with the World Inferno Friendship Society
European Premier Salzburg Sommer Szene, July 2007

Time Again and Again
inspired by the Science Ficiton of Philip K Dick with Pont Muhely in Budapest Hungary, September 2008

The Making of Americans
a new opera after the novel by Gertrude Stein in collaboration with composer Anthony Gatto, Premiering at the Walker Art Center in Minneapolis, December 2008

 

For PDF of All Works: scheib _selected.pdf (9mb)
For PDF CV of Jay Scheib: jayscheib_cv.pdf

 
 
 
Contact Jay Scheib: jayscheib@jayscheib.com