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

BIOGRAPHY

Jay Scheib’s current and upcoming productions include a new staging of Fidelio at the Saarländische Staatstheater in Saarbrücken, Brecht's Puntila und sein Knecht Matti in repertory at Theater Augsburg in Germany, and Bellona, Destroyer of Cities which premiered at The Kitchen in New York and will be presented next year at the Institute of Contemporary Art in Boston. Other recent works include Untitled Mars (This Title May Change), which premiered at Performance Space 122 in New York followed by a tour to the National Theatre in Budapest, Hungary, and This Place is a Desert, which premiered at Boston’s Institute of Contemporary Art followed by a sold-out run at the Public Theater in New York as part of the Under the Radar Festival. Untitled Mars received an Obie Award for Scenic Design; This Place is a Desert was named one of the Ten Best Shows of 2008 by Time Out New York. Concurrent with these productions, Scheib’s collaboration with punk rock ensemble World/Inferno Friendship Society, Addicted to Bad Ideas, toured to numerous venues around the world, including Spoleto Festival USA, Peak Performances in Montclair, and the Luminato Festival in Toronto. Other international works include the world premiere of Irene Popovic’s opera Mozart Luster Lustik in Belgrade, Serbia, Lothar Trolle’s Ein Vormittag in der Freitheit at the Volksbühne am Rosa-Luxemburg-Platz, Berlin and a new staging of the Novoflot science fiction opera saga Kommander Kobayashi in Saarbruecken, Germany. In the Spring of 2009, Scheib was listed Best New York Theater Director by Time Out New York, and American Theater Magazine called him one of twenty-five theater artists shaping the next twenty five years of American theater. Born in Shenandoah, Iowa, Scheib is a recipient of the MIT Edgerton Award, The Richard Sherwood Award, and the NEA/TCG Program for Directors. He is a regular guest professor at the Mozarteum in Salzburg, Austria and is Associate Professor for Music and Theater Arts at MIT.

Contact Jay Scheib: jayscheib@jayscheib.com