Jeff Becker is a director and designer based in New Orleans. He specializes in site-specific performances that utilize innovative kinetic sets, sculpture, film, and machines. He is an ensemble member of ArtSpot Productions.
Becker has worked with several theater companies, including San Francisco's award-winning Cuttingball Theater; Hand 2 Mouth; Pan Pan Theatre, in Ireland; Dah Teatar, in Serbia; and Mondo Bizarro, in New Orleans. He collaborated with choreographer Elizabeth Streb, developing Ascension, a spinning ladder machine that was featured in Tralagfar Square during the 2012 Summer Olympics.
During his residency at MacDowell he worked on creating concept sketches, 3D scale models and storyboards for the visual dramaturgy of a new project titled "Sea of Common Catastrophe" that he also directed and designed. (SEA) was a multi-media event that incorporated video projection, interactive sculpture, and live performance to address rapid change in urban neighborhoods, inadequately labeled "gentrification."
