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PERFORMANCE HISTORY ARCHIVE(IN PROGRESS)

THEATRE PRODUCTIONS (PARTIAL LISTING, ADDITIONS IN PROGRESS)

Chang in a Void Moon - A Living Film Serial - text, direction, design, video, and film by John Jesurun

Weekly Episodes #1 36: The Pyramid Club, New York, NY 1982-1983

Six Episodes: Cafe Einstein, Berlin, Germany

Gallerie Dany Keller, Munich, Germany

Neues Kunstverein, Zurich, Switzerland 1983

Episodes #37 40: The Pyramid Club, New York, NY 1984

Episode #39: The Bottom Line, New York, NY 1985

Episodes #40 42: Limbo Theatre, New York, NY 1985

Episode #43: The Performing Garage, New York, NY 1988

Episode #44: The Kitchen, New York, NY 1988

Episode #45: The Performing Garage, New York, NY 1988

Episode #46: LaMama, New York, NY 1995

Episode #47-50: The Kitchen, New York, NY 1995

Bird’s Eye View text, direction, and design by John Jesurun

St. Mark's Poetry Project, New York, NY 1983

DOG'S EYE VIEW- text, direction, design, and film by John Jesurun

Music by Fred Frith

LaMama, New York, NY 1984

Number Minus One text, direction, design, and film by John Jesurun

Part 1: The Performing Garage, New York, NY 1984

LaMama, New York, NY 1984

Parts 1 & 2: The Performing Garage, New York, NY 1984

Diskurs '86, Angewandte Theaterwissenschaft, Justus Liebig Universitaet, Giessen, West Germany 1986

Red House text, direction, design, and video by John Jesurun

Music composed and performed by Steven Antonelli

LaMama, New York, NY 1984

Cast: Valerie Charles, Black-Eyed Susan, Steve Buscemi, Robyn Hatcher, Larry tighe

Sound:, Michael Connelly

Lighting Design: Jeffery Nash

Production Stage Manager: Brad W. Phillips

Assistant Stage Manager: Caesar Villa

Lighting Assistant : Andy Henry

Institute of Contemporary Art, London, England 1985

Printemps du Theatre, American Center, Paris, France 1985

Italian version

Inter City Festival, Florence, Italy 1988

German version

Diskurs '88, Angewandte Theaterwissenschaft, Justus Liebig Universitaet Giessen, West Germany 1988

Hessicher Thleatertage, Wiesbaden Stadtheater, Wiesbaden, West Germany 1988

Goethe Theater, Offenbach, West Germany 1989

Mainzer Theater, Mainz, West Germany 1989

Shatterhand Massacree as Riderless Horse

Hallwalls, Buffalo, NY 1985

Pyramid Club New York, NY 1985

The Kitchen, NYC 1995

Lighting by Jeff Nash

Choreography by Jo Andres

Cast: Steve Buscemi, Valerie Charles, Larry Tighe, Michael Tighe, Sanghi Wagner

German version

Shatterhand Massacree as Pferd Ohne Reiter

Ingewandte Theaterwissenschaft, Justus Liebig Universitaet, Giessen, West Germany 1985

Theaterstudio in der Zigarrenfabrik, Giessen, West Germany 1985

SHATTERHAND MASSACREE/Riderless Horse text, direction, design, and video by John Jesurun

Danspace Project, New York, NY 1985

University of Colorado, Boulder 1986

New Performance Gallery, San Francisco 198

Valladolid Theatre Festival, Spain 1986

Aspen Art Museum, Aspen 1987

Chieri Festival, Italy 1987

Montalcino Festival, Italy 1987

The Kitchen, New York, NY 1987

Walker Art Center, Minneapolis 1987

Cast: Steve Buscemi, Valerie Charles, Larry Tighe, Michael Tighe, Sanghi Wagner

Lighting: Jeffrey Nash

Production Manager: Brad Phillips

Choreography: Sanghi Wagner, Jo Andres

Wadsworth Athenaeum, Hartford 1989

Cast: Rebecca Moore, Joe Murphy, Larry Tighe, Michael Tighe, Sanghi Wagner

Lighting: Jeffrey Nash

Production Manager: Brad Phillips

Choreography: Sanghi Wagner, Jo Andres

Wesleyan University, Middletown 1989

On the Boards, Seattle 1989

Mickery Theater, Amsterdam, Netherlands 1989

Lanteren Theater, Rotterdam, Netherlands 1989

Eurokaz International Theater Festival, Zagreb, Yugoslavia 1989

Spanish Version

Granada Festival, Spain 1992

DEEP SLEEP- text, direction, design and film by John Jesurun

La Mama, New York, N.Y. 1986

Cast:Steve Buscemi Valerie Charles, Larry Tighe, Michael Tighe, Black-Eyed Susan, John Hagan, Robyn Hatcher, Anne Labois

Production Stage Manager: Brad W. Philips

Light designer:Jeffrey nash

Technical Director: Jim Coleman

Puppet: Jane Stein

Film Sights: Richard Conners/Curt Rosen

Sound: Jim Coleman/Carol Anne Ruthberg

Edit: John Jesurun, Francis Zuccarello

Post Production Sound Mix: Andy Lasky

Internationales Somertheater Festival, Hamburg, West Germany 1989

Mickery Theater, Amsterdam, Netherlands 1989

Eurokaz International Theater Festival, Zagreb, Yugoslavia 1989

WHITE WATER- 4 channels of video and performance - text, direction, and design by John Jesurun

Sound design by Christian Marclay

Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston 1986

The Kitchen, New York, NY 1986

Cast: Larry Tighe, Valerie Charles, Michael Tighe

Mickery Theatre, Amsterdam, Netherlands 1986

German version

A production with Johann Wolfgang Goethe University

Theater Am Turm, Frankfurt, West Germany 1989

Theatre Film Video Institute, Frankfurt, West Germany 1989

Spanish version

Mexico City, Mexico 2001

BLACK MARIA- 5 screen film installation - text, direction, and design by John Jesurun

For his play Black Maria, Jesurun surrounded his audience with four movie screen walls and a movie screen ceiling. On the screens vivid images of the actors performing and landscapes interacted with one another, demanding the audience to respond by swiveling their heads from screen to screen in order to engage the mystery at hand.

LaMama ,New York, NY 1987 – Written, Directed and Designed by John Jesurun

Cast: Larry Tighe, Black-Eyed Susan, Jane Smith, Michael Tighe. Sanghi Wagner, Helena White, Jun Maeda

Cinematography: Richard Conners, Curt Rosen

Technical Director/ Sound: Jim Coleman

Set construction/ design Jun Maeda

German version (live performance), Arnhem, West Germany 1988

SUNSPOT -text, direction, and design by John Jesurun

The Kitchen, New York, NY 1989

Lighting by Jeff Nash

Production Stage Manager: Brad Phillips

Assistant Director: Johannes Frick

Cast: Steve Buscemi, Black-Eyed Susan, Kathrin Brinkmann, Jane Smith, Larry Tighe, Michael Tighe, Sanghi Wagner, Helena White

EVERYTHING THAT RISES MUST CONVERGE- text, direction, design, and video by John Jesurun

The Walker Center of Visual Arts, Minneapolis 1990

The Wexner Center, Columbia 1990

The Kitchen, New York, NY 1990

Cast: Oscay de la Colon, Joe Murphy, Susan Strenger, Larry Tighe, Michael Tighe, Sanghi Wagner, Phyils Young, Jane Smith, Jonathan Del Arco

Lighting: Jeffery Nash

Camera Operators: Catharine Gore, Barret Schumaker

Production Manager: David Tumblety

The Vienna Festival, Austria 1990

Spoleto Festival USA, Charlestone 1990

The Meaubeuge, France 1990

De Singel, Anvers, France 1990

Mickery Center, Amsterdam, Netherlands 1990

BLUE HEAT- text, direction, design, and video by John Jesurun

INTAR , NYC 1991

Cast: Oscar de la Fe Colon, Divina Cook, Larry tighe, Michael Tighe, Sanghi Wagner, Eileen Vega

Lighting Designer: Jeffery Nash

Choreographer: Richard Eric Winberg

Set construction: Robert Omer, Barret Schumacher, David Tumblety

Camera Operators: Robert Omer, Michael Tighe

IRON LUNG- text, direction, and design by John Jesurun

LaMama , New York, NY 1992

Cast: Sanghi Wagner, Rebecca Moore, Larry Tighe, Michael Tighe, Oscar de la Colon

Lighting Design: Jeffery Nash

Stage Manager: Mathew Buckingham

Technical Director: Jim Coleman

Set Construction: Jimcoleman , Natz

Voice Recording and Editing: Paula Gordon

Voice of Hotel Manager: Lillian Kiesler

POINT OF DEBARKATION- written, directed, and designed by John Jesurun

LaMama, New York, NY 1993

Cast: Oscar de la Fe Colon, Phillis Nunn, Michael Tighe, Ching Valdes, Sanghi Wagner

Puppets: Jane Stein

Choreography: Sanghi Wagner

Lighting Design: Jeffery Nash

Video-Cinematography: Richard Conners

Production Manager: Catharine Gore

Production Assistant: Victor Gonzales Rubio

Set Construction Design: Jun Maeda

Set Construction: Jun Maeda, Mark Tambella, David Adams

Assistant Puppet Builders: Peter Baird, Linda Marchand

Music Mish-Mash: John Jesurun

Southern Cross written, directed, and designed by John Jesurun

St. Mark’s Church, New York, NY 1993

Cast Sheryl Dold, Brian Jucha, Barney O’Hanlon, David Neumann, Tina Shepard, Megan Spooner, Lisa Welti

Lighing Design: Roma Flowers

Costume Design: Kasia Walicka-Maimone

German version

Directed by Anna Kohler

Stadttheater Kiel, Germany 1996

Ojo Caliente written, directed, and designed by John Jesurun

Molina International Festival, Murcia, Santander, Valencia, Madrid, Spain 1993-1994

Bogota International Theater Festival, Colombia

San Jose Theater Festival, Costa Rica 1994

PHILOKTETES- written by John Jesurun

Reading

New York Theater Workshop, New York, NY 1998

La Mama, with Jeff Weiss New York, NY 2002

Text fragments for “Philoktetes Variations”

Kaaitheater, Brussels, Belgium 1994

Spanish version

Directed by Martin Acosta

Mexico City, Mexico 2000

PEARLY IRRIDESCENT - written by John Jesurun

Directed by Sanghi Wagner 1994

JOAN D'ARK- written by John Jesurun

Directed by Rebecca Moore

Triple-X Festival, Amsterdam, Netherlands 1994

The Ontological Theater, New York, NY

Slight Return written, directed, and designed by John Jesurun

The play was in essence performed offstage with five television monitors bringing the action to the audience via closed circuit TV

Randolph St. Gallery, Chicago 1994

LaMama, New York, NY 1995

Laokoon Festival, Kampnagel Sommerfestival-Hamburg,Germany-2002

Cast; Kyle DeCamp NY/Ari Brickman-Germany

Lumiere written, directed, and designed by John Jesurun

Segovia, Spain 1995

Reading directed by John Jesurun, P.S. 122, 1998

Cast: David Nuemann, Ruth Malaczech, Black-Eyed Susan, Daniel Zippi

Faust - Imperial Motel written by John Jesurun

Directed by Marianne Weems, Theater Neumarkt Zurich, Switzerland 1996

FAUST/HOW I ROSE -Reading Directed by John Jesurun, P.S. 122, NYC 1998

Cast: Jeff Weiss, Larry Fessenden, Anna Kohler, Black-Eyed Susan, Rebecca Moore

Faust/How I Rose written, directed, and designed by John Jesurun

Mousonturm, Frankfurt, Germany 1999

Spanish version - directed by Martin Acosta, National Company of Mexico, Mexico City, Mexico 1998

Jump Cut - Faust

Directed by Marianne Weems Thread Waxing Space, NYC 1997

Text by John Jesurun

Snow written,directed and designed by John Jesurun

New City Theater, Seattle, Octorber- 2000

FILM

Where Are My Legs (1977) 16mm

Danceteria, New Artists Space, New York, NY 1977

Club 57, New York, NY 1980

Festival d'Automne, Paris 1984

Chang In a Void Moon (1978) Super 8

Pyramid Club and Club 57, New York, NY 1980

Last Days of Pompeii (1980) 16mm

Club 57 and Mudd Club, New York, NY 1980

Film Expo and Artists Space, New York, NY 1981

The Collective for Living Cinema, New York, NY 1982

Hallwalls 1984

University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee 1985

"Mixed Signals", New England Foundation for the Arts cable series 1985

P.S. 122, New York, NY 1985 6

Pyramid Club, Danceteria, Folk City, New York, NY 1986

Williams College, Williamstown 1986

Bennington College, Bennington, VT 1986

Suffolk University, Boston 1986

Portland Performing Arts Center, Portland 1986

Stella Maris (1981) Super 8

Toronto 1981

Artists Space, New York, NY 1981

Hallwalls, New York, NY 1984

Pyramid Club, Poetry Project at St. Mark's Church, Folk City, New York, NY 1986

Fairground 88, The History of Theater, Part 11 (1988 89)

Film produced by the Mickery Theatre Amsterdam, based on performances by Stuart Sherman, Ethyl Eichelberger, Needcompany, Theodora Skipitares, Squat Theatre, Wooster Group, Jan Fabre, Peter Gordon, and Kit Fitzgerald Rotterdam, Amsterdam 1988

VIDEO INSTALLATIONS

“Ojo Caliente”, Hallwalls, Buffalo, NY 1988

“Iron Lung”, multiple monitor installation, Fort Aspern, Aspern, Holland 1988

“Highway to Hell”, Gallery A.C. Lony, Giessen, West Germany 1988

“Untitled”, Lehigh University Art Galleries Bethlehem, Pennsylvania 1994

OTHER PRODUCTIONS

Dennis Cleveland opera written and directed by Mikel Rouse

Video and set design by John Jesurun

The Kitchen- 1996

Krannert Center-2001

Orange County Performing Arts Center-2000

Perth International Arts Festival 2001

Lincoln Center-2002

Fire at Keaton’s Bar and Grill jazz suite by Roy Nathanson and staging/video design by John Jesurun

St. Ann’s, Brooklyn, NY 2000

Royal Festival Hall, London, England 2000

GRANTS AND AWARDS

Fund for U.S. Artists at International Festivals 1989

National Endowment for the Arts, Inter-Arts: Partnerships in Commissioning and Touring 1989 1990

National Endowment for the Arts, United States/Japan Exchange Fellowship Program 1989 1990

National Endowment for the Arts, Playwrights Fellowship 1988

Foundation for Contemporary Performance Arts 1988

New York Foundation for the Arts Fellowship, Performance Art/Emergent Forms 1988

Rockefeller Foundation Playwrights Fellowship 1987

National Endowment for the Arts Professional Theater Companies 1985 86, 1987 88, 1988 89,1989 90

National Endowment for the Arts Visual Arts Fellowship 1987 88

Art Matters 1985, 1987

Peg Santvoord Foundation Grant 1985, 1986, 1987

OBIE Award, Best Play for Deep Sleep 1986

National Endowment for the Arts, Inter Arts 1986

BESSIE Award for Chang in a Void Moon 1985

CAPS Award, Playwriting 1980

National Endowment for the Arts Interarts 1989

National Endowment for the Arts Media Arts 1989

National Endowment for the Arts Interarts 1993

Rockefeller Foundation Playwright Grant 1993

Foundation for Contemporary Performance Arts 1993

U.S.-Mexico Creative Artists Residency Grant, National Endowment for the Arts 1994

MTV Music Video Award, Best New Artist Video nomination for Jeff Buckley’s Last Goodbye

directed by J. Jesurun 1996

MacArthur Foundation Fellowship 1996

Rockefeller Map Grant 1992, 2000,2001,2004

Asian Cultural Council Grant 2001

WORKS PUBLISHED

Deep Sleep in Performing Arts Journal "Word Plays 5" 1986

White Water in Theatre Communications Group "On New Ground" 1987

Chang In A Void Moon Episode #17 in The Drama Review 1985

Philoktetes in Yale Theater Magazine 1994

Everything that Rises Must Converge –Sun and Moon Press- 1995

SYMPOSIA

Diskurs 88 Angewandte Theaterwissenschaft, Justus Liebig Universitaet,Giessen, West Germany 1988

"American Experimental Theatre" University of Torino, Torino, Italy January 1988

Diskurs 86 Angewandte Theaterwissenschaft, Justus Liebig Universitaet, Giessen, W. Germany 1986

Diskurs 85 Angewandte Theaterwissenschaft, Justus Liebig Universitaet, Giessen, W. Germany 1985

GUEST PROFESSOR

Dasarts, Amsterdam School, guest professor, post graduate program, Amsterdam, Netherlands 1994

Justus Liebig University, Theater Institute, Giessen, Germany 1985,86,87,98

Goethe University, Theater-Media Institute, Frankfurt, Germany 1998-1999

Kyoto University of Art and Design. 2002-3

Tokyo University 1999