Jay Scheib was born on October 6,1969 and is an American stage director, playwright and artist, noted for his contemporary productions of both classical and new plays and operas.
10 Facts About Jay Scheib
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Jay Scheib has been a regular guest professor at the Mozarteum, Thomas Bernhard Institut, Abteilung fur Regie und Schauspiel in Salzburg, Austria, where he conducts an annual "viewpoints and composition" studio.
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Jay Scheib was born in Shenandoah, Iowa and attended the University of Minnesota.
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Jay Scheib began his career in Minneapolis, Minnesota with a 1991 production of Antonin Artaud's Le Jet du Sang followed by a commission from the International Festival of Free Theaters in Szeged, Hungary where Scheib was to premiere The Seasonal.
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Jay Scheib went on to co-found The American Theater Institute, which eventually became The Arcade Studio.
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In 2009 Jay Scheib was named by American Theater Magazine as one of the 25 Artists who will shape the next 25 years of American Theater.
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For Jay Scheib's staging of Bat Out of Hell he has been nominated for Best Director for the 2017 WhatsOnStage Award.
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Jay Scheib directed Evan Ziporyn's Live Cinema opera A House in Bali at Cal Performances, Berkeley CA, Cutler Majestic Theater, Boston and the Brooklyn Academy of Music, Brooklyn, New York in fall 2010 featuring contemporary music ensemble Bang on a Can and Gamelan Salukat led by Dewa Ketut Alit.
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Jay Scheib has staged the world premiere of Irena Popovich's Mozart Luster Lustik at the Sava Center in Belgrade, carried out the libretto direction and media design for The Making of Americans at the Walker Art Center based on the novel by Gertrude Stein and staged the five part Novaflot opera saga Kommander Kobayashi composed by Moritz Eggert, Aleksandra Gryka, Ricardas Kabelis, Juha Koskinen and Helmut Oehring, and conducted by Jonathan Kaell at the Saarland State Theatre in Saarbrucken.
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Jay Scheib's live-cinema adaptation of Antonioni's works This Place is a Desert was first performed as a workshop with the Kretakor Ensemble in Budapest followed by a studio presentation at Massachusetts Institute of Technology before its world premiere at the Institute of Contemporary Art in Boston and its subsequent sold-out run at the Public Theater as part of the Under the Radar Festival.