Jay Scheib | director JAY SCHEIB'S WEBSITE Jay Scheib born in 1969 in Shenandoah, Iowa AB Summa Cum Laude University of Minnesota, Minneapolis MN MFA Columbia University School of the Arts, New York City Writer, Director and Designer, Jay Scheib has been developing new works for performance for over ten years in the US and throughout Europe. Upcoming productions this season include Evan Ziporyn’s new opera A House in Bali at Cal Performances in Berkley, Brecht’s Puntila und sein Knecht Matti at Theater Augsburg in Germany and Bellona Destroyer of Cities adapted from Samuel Delany's novel, Dhalgren at The Kitchen in New York. Recent productions include the Obie Award winning documentary performance Untitled Mars (This Title May Change) which premiered at Performance Space 122 in New York and the live-cinema performance event This Place is a Desert, which premiered at Boston’s Institute of Contemporary Art last year followed by a sold-out run at the Public Theater in NYC as part of the Under the Radar Festival. Scheib also collaborated with acclaimed punk rock ensemble The World Inferno Friendship Society in the creation of a multi-media music theater performance titled Addicted to Bad Ideas, Peter Lorre’s 20th Century. Addicted to Bad Ideas premiered at Philadelphia Live Arts Festival and made its New York City debut as part of the Under the Radar Festival/Public Theater and has since performed widely in the US and throughout Europe. In 2006, he directed the critically acclaimed Women Dreamt Horses by Argentinean author Daniel Veronese at Performance Space 122 as part of BAiT – Buenos Aires in Translation. Recent international works include a performance installation at Raum (Space) Bologna, as part of the Xing Festival, with his Shakespeare adaptation All Good Everything Good with Italian singer Margareth Kammerer. Other international works include the world premier of Irene Popovic's opera Mozart Luster Lustik at the Sava Center in Belgrade, Serbia and a new staging of the Novoflot science fiction opera saga, Kommander Kobayashi at the Saarlandisches Staatstheater in Saarbruecken, Germany. Jay Scheib is currently Associate Professor for Music and Theater Arts at Massachusetts Institute of Technology, where he recently received the Edgerton Award, given to one junior faculty member per year. He is a past recipient of the National Endowment for the Arts / Theater Communications Group program for directors, and is a regular guest professor at both the Mozarteum Institute für Regie und Schauspiel in Salzburg, Austria and the Norwegian Theatre Academy in Norway.