JAY SCHEIB (Cambridge / New York)
SIMULATED CITIES / SIMULATED SYSTEMS TRILOGY
www.jayscheib.com

Conceived and Directed by Jay Scheib
Scenic Design by Peter Ksander

PART 1: "UNTITLED MARS (This Title May Change)"
World Premiere: Performance Space 122, April 2008

An international collaboration between celebrated theater ensemble Pont Mahely of Budapest and a team of research scientists phoning in their performances live via satellite from the Mars Desert Research Station in Utah. Sound fake? It’s not. “Untitled Mars” is a mind-bending excursion into an interplanetary future defined by Scheib’s signature multi-media aesthetic. This ground-breaking performance is a Science vs. Fiction Simulation of Real Simulation as performed by Real Scientists in the very Real Utah desert. Rewriting Fiction with Reality, the work caps a year of collaboration with an international team of Space industry visionaries, artists and research scientists and students from MIT.

PART 2: "BELLONA: DESTROYER OF CITIES"
World Premiere: The Kitchen, NYC April 2010

Adapted from one of the best selling science fiction novels of all time, Samuel Delany’s novel “Dhalgren,” “Bellona: Destroyer of Cities” opens in a midwestern city that once held millions. An impossible crime has been committed and the sun looms larger than life. Two moons have appeared in the sky and for some unknown reason, this once illustrious city has been all but forgotten by the world beyond it.

PART 3: "WORLD OF WIRES"
World Premiere: The Kitchen, NYC, January 2012

The third and final work models Earth on Earth by borrowing computer science and artificial intelligence to reinterpret Werner Fassbinder’s science fiction television series Welt am Draht for live performance.

World of Wires has recently received funding from Greenwall Foundation and a NYSCA Theater Commission.

“Mixing multimedia with deadpan-cool (and very sexy) actors, Scheib is forging new ways of seeing drama."
- Time Out New York, “The Best New York Theater Directors,” 2009

“Top 25 Future Shapers of American Theater"
-American Theater Magazine