John Jesurun

John Jesurun

John Jesurun is a New York, USA, based writer, director and multi-media artist. His work Chang in a Void Moon is a live serial running since 1983, originally at the Pyramid Club in the East Village, and now though less frequently at venues worldwide. The large and varying cast has included Steve Buscemi, David Cale and many downtown luminaries.

Biography

John Jesurun is a playwright,director and designer living in New York. His presentations integrate elements of language, film, architectural space and media. His exploded narratives cover a wide range of themes and explore the relation of form to content, challenging the experience of verbal, visual and intangible perceptions. His work is distinguished by his integrated creation of the text,direction,set and media design. Born 1951 in Battle Creek, Michigan. B.F.A. Philadelphia College of Art/1972. M.F.A. in Sculpture from Yale University/ 1974. 1976-79/Television Content Analyst for CBS.1979-82/Assistant to producer/ Dick Cavett Show producing shows on John and Mackenzie Phillips, John Hammond Sr., Odetta and Tito Puente. In 1982 he began began his theatrical career at the Pyramid Club on the Lower East Side with his groundbreaking serial play CHANG IN A VOID MOON, now in its 60th episode. (Bessie Award). Since 1984 he has written,directed and designed over 25 pieces including: the media trilogy of DEEP SLEEP (1986 Obie Award, Best Play), WHITE WATER and BLACK MARIA , NUMBER MINUS ONE, DOG’S EYE VIEW, RED HOUSE, SHATTERHAND MASSACREE, PHILOKTETES, EVERYTHING THAT RISES MUST CONVERGE, SLIGHT RETURN, IRON LUNG, BARDO, SEPTET and SNOW.His company has toured extensively in Europe and the United States. His work has been produced and presented by numerous venues including La Mama, the Kitchen, the Walker Arts Center, On the Boards, Brooklyn Academy of Music, the Wexner Center,Kampnagel Theater, Prater Theater,National Theater of Mexico, Mickery Theater, Theater am Turm, Granada Festival, Eurokaz Zagreb, Bogota International Festival,Vienna Festival,Kyoto Performing Arts Center and Spoleto USA. His short films have been shown at festivals and alternative spaces in Europe and the US.He is the recipient of numerous grants including the:Rockefeller Foundation Playwrights FellowshipGuggenheim Foundation FellowshipNational Endowment for the Arts Playwrights FellowshipFoundation for Contemporary Performance Arts FellowshipMacArthur FellowshipNational Endowment for the Arts-Visual and Media Arts FellowshipsAsian Cultural CouncilRockefeller Multi-Arts Production BAM/Lucent Technologies Arts in MultimediaMAP FundHe has taught theater at Goethe University/ Frankfurt, Justus Liebig University/ Giessen, DASARTS/Amsterdam, New York University, LaMaMa Umbria, Tokyo University, Kyoto University of Art and Design and the New School.His work is published by Performing Arts Journal(DEEP SLEEP,FAUST), Ediciones El Milagro (PHILOKTETES) (Spanish),Theater Communications Group (WHITE WATER), Sun and Moon Press(EVERYTHING THAT RISES), Yale Theater Magazine(PHILOKTETES) Index, 2Wice, Felix .

Recent Publications

PHILOKTETES- German translation by Anna Kohler in Theater der Zeit, Dec. 2004. FAUST/HOW I ROSE-Performing Arts Journal, Sept. 2004.PHILOKTETES in “Divine Fire” Backstage Books/Aug. 2005. He has worked with various artists including Molissa Fenley, Steve Buscemi,Christian Marclay, John Kelly, Hideo Kanze, Neil Greenberg, Rebecca Moore,David Cale, René Pollesch, Fiona Templeton, Frank Maya, Martin Acosta, Barbez and Ron Vawter. His music video for Jeff Buckley was nominated for an MTV award. Other projects include the 2000 staging and video design for the concert performance of Roy Nathanson’s Jazz Suite “Fire at Keaton’s Bar and Grill” featuring Debbie Harry and Elvis Costello at St. Ann’s,Brooklyn and Royal Festival Hall, London,the set and video design for the opera “Dennis Cleveland” at Lincoln Center.

Recent Projects (2004-06)

FAUST/HOW I ROSE- OCTOBER 2004

TEXT, SET AND VIDEO DESIGN BY JOHN JESURUNDIRECTED BY MARTIN ACOSTAFESTIVAL CERVANTINO, GUANAJUATO MEXICO, NEXT WAVE FESTIVAL, BROOKLYN ACADEMY OF MUSIC -NOV.2004

HATTERHAND MASSACREE, PHILOKTETES, CHANG EPISODE #58

TEXT, DIRECTION, SET AND VIDEO DESIGN BY JOHN JESURUNBERLINER FESTSPIELHAUS -DECEMBER 2004RED HOUSE( GERMAN VERSION)PRATER THEATER, BERLIN FEB-JUNE 2005 TEXT, DIRECTION, SET AND VIDEO BY JOHN JESURUN

PARTIAL VIEW

Video design by John Jesurun/Collaboration with Choreographer Niel GreenbergDance Theater Workshop –April 2005TIME OUT AUDIENCE AWARD/BEST OF 2005/NYNEWSDAY BEST OF 2005

PHILOKTETES (JAPANESE VERSION)

(TRANSLATION BY JONATHAN SCOTT) APRIL 2005, TEXT, DIRECTION,STAGE AND VIDEO DESIGN BY JOHN JESURUNKYOTO CENTER FOR PERFORMING ARTS (JAPANESE VERSION)WITH NOH THEATER LEGEND HIDEO KANZE

CHANG IN A VOID MOON EPISODE #59-JUNE 2005

TEXT, DIRECTION, DESIGN BY JOHN JESURUN -RUBIN MUSEUM OF ART

EPTET- NOV. 2005

TEXT, DIRECTION,SET AND VIDEO DESIGN BY JOHN JESURUNEXPERIMENTAL THEATER WING, NYU

2006

Residency at Macdowell ColonyMultimedia workshop for International Directors Symposium, La Mama Umbria Aug, '06Recipient of Franklin Furnace Fund AwardFALL '06- Artist in residence at the New School's Eugene Lang College.

FIREFALL-PHASE 1

Text, Direction, Design By John Jesurun -December '06, Presented at the New School

PHILOKTETES

Text, Direction, Design By John Jesurun, presented at KaaiTheater Brussels December 2006.

FUTURE PROJECTS -2007

PHILOKTETESText, Direction, Design By John Jesurun -Soho Rep -October, 2007

Jesurun will direct and design a new staging of Harry Partch's seminal music/theater piece DELUSION OF THE FURY/ Japan Society, December 2007. 2007 Residencies at Yaddo and the Liguria Study Center.

Publication of FIREFALL text in Performing Arts Journal

CHANG GUIDE- an annotated synopsis guide to the 60 episodes/25 years of CHANG IN A VOID MOON.

Four new pieces: SEPTET:PARTS 1 & 2STONED LOVE(with Black-Eyed Susan)FIREFALL/PHASE 2 LIZ #1

Works

1982-83

*Chang in a Void Moon episodes #1-36
*Bird’s Eye View
*Non Chang pieces

1984

*Dog’s Eye View
*Number Minus One
*Red House
*Chang in a Void Moon, episodes #37-42

1985

*Shatterhand Massacree

1986

*Deep Sleep
*White Water

1987

Black Maria

1988

*Chang in a Void Moon, episodes #43-45

1989

*Sunspot

1990

*Everything that Rises Must Converge

1991

*Blue Heat

1992

*Iron Lung

1993

*Southern Cross
*Point of Debarkation

1994

*Slight Return
*Pearly Irridescent
*Joan D’Ark

1995

*Chang in a Void Moon, episodes #46-50

1996

*Faust/How I Rose

1997

*After Image
*Chang in a Void Moon, episodes #51-52

1999

*Land of the Living

2000

*Snow

2003

*Bardo
*Chang in a Void Moon, episodes #53-55

2005

*Septet, part 1
*Stoned Love
*Chang in a Void Moon, episode #59

2006

*Septet, part 2
*Firefall

External links

* [http://www.e-felix.org/issue3/Jesurun.html Article by John Jesurun]


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