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Jay Scheib
Librettist
Biography
A 2011-12 Guggenheim Fellow and 2012 Obie Winner for Direction, Jay Scheib is an acclaimed writer, director and designer of plays, operas, and live art installations. Scheib's recent works include Thomas Adès' opera Powder her Face with New York City Opera at Brooklyn Academy of Music and Scheib's Fassbinder adaptation World of Wires which premiered at The Kitchen (NY) followed by performances in Boston, Krakow, Nantes and Paris; a multimedia staging of Evan Ziporyn's new opera A House in Bali was presented in BAM's 2010 Next Wave Festival in New York City, and at the Cutler Majestic Theater in Boston; Other works include Bellona, Destroyer of Cities at The Kitchen followed by performances at the Maison des Arts Creteil (MAC) Exit Festival in Paris; Bertolt Brecht's Puntila und Sein Knecht Matti at Theater Augsburg, and Beethoven's Fidelio at Saarlandisches Staatstheater. Scheib is a Professor for Music and Theater Arts at MIT, and has been a regular guest professor at both the Norwegian Theater Academy and The Mozarteum Institute for Acting and Directing in Salzburg.

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New Works Sampler 2015


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Los Angeles OperaPersona11/9/2017 - 11/12/2017
Beth Morrison ProjectsPersona11/9/2017 - 11/12/2017
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