Discipline: Theatre – devised

Daniel Fish

Discipline: Theatre – devised
Region: Brooklyn, NY
MacDowell Fellowships: 2015

Daniel Fish is a director who works in theater, opera, and film. He draws on a broad range of forms and subject matter including plays, film scripts, contemporary fiction, essays, and found audio. His work includes THE SOURCE (BAM Next Wave Festival), ETERNAL (Noorderzon Festival, Incubator Arts Project and The Public Theater’s UNDER THE RADAR FESTIVAL), and A (radically condensed and expanded) SUPPOSEDLY FUN THING I’LL NEVER DO AGAIN, based on audio recordings of David Foster Wallace (The Chocolate Factory). His work has been seen at theaters throughout the United States and Europe, including Opera Philadelphia/Curtis Opera Theater, American Repertory Theater, Richard B. Fisher Center at Bard College,Yale Repertory Theater, McCarter Theater, Signature Theater, The Shakespeare Theater Company, The Juilliard School, Düsseldorfer Schauspielhaus, Staatstheater Braunschweig, and The Royal Shakespeare Company. Residencies and commissions include Baryshnikov Arts Center, The Chocolate Factory, LMCC/Governor’s Island and The Bushwick Starr. He has taught at The Juilliard School, The Yale School of Drama, Bard College, and Princeton University. He received his B.S. in performance studies from Northwestern University.

Studios

Schelling

Daniel Fish worked in the Schelling studio.

Marian MacDowell funded construction of this studio the year that the organization was established and the first artists arrived for residency. It was called Bark Studio until 1933, when it was renamed in honor of Ernest Schelling, a composer, pianist, and orchestral leader who served as president of what was then called the Edward MacDowell…

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