Artists' Fellowship - 1988
Performance Art/Multidisciplinary Work
Artist Statement:
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More about the Artist:
In 1982 John Jesurun began began his theatrical career at the Pyramid Club on the Lower East Side with his groundbreaking serial play Chang in a Void Moon, which received a Bessie Award and has had over 60 episodes worldwide. He has since written and directed over 25 performance pieces including the Obie Award-winning trilogy Deep Sleep.
His company has toured extensively in Europe and the United States and his work has been produced and presented by numerous venues including LaMama, 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.
Jesurun's 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 Fellowship, the Guggenheim Foundation Fellowship, the National Endowment for the Arts Playwrights Fellowship, and the Foundation for Contemporary Performance Arts Fellowship. He is a 1996 MacArthur Fellow.
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