Marike Splint is a Dutch French-Tunisian theatre maker based in Los Angeles, specializing in creating work in public space that explores the relationship between people, places, and identity. She has created performances in sites ranging from a bus driving through the streets of a city, to wide open meadows, taxicabs, train stations, beach piers, arboretums, subways, and the virtual map of Google Earth.
Presenters and commissioners of her original work include La Jolla Playhouse, Center Theater Group, UCLA Center for the Art of Performance, Center for the Performing Arts at Penn State, and Skirball Cultural Center LA. She serves as an associate professor in the Department of Theater at UCLA.
While at MacDowell, Splint made significant progress on the development of her performance Show Full History, in which she uses her own internet search history as a performance script, tracing her family’s history of migration through a virtual odyssey. In support of this project, she has been awarded a 2025 Creative Capital Grant.
Portrait by Gema Galiana
