Jay Scheib

Jay Scheib is Professor of Music and Theater Arts at MIT, where he heads the Music and Theater Arts programs. Born in 1969 in Shenandoah, Iowa, he holds an MFA in Directing from Columbia University School of the Arts. With his New York ensemble, Jay Scheib & Co., he developed a performance language that joins improvisation-rich physical theater with live cinema and a technology-forward stage.

Recent work includes a new *Parsifal* for the Bayreuth Festival, the world premiere of Paola Prestini's opera *Sensorium Ex*, Tod Machover's *Valis*, and *Sei Siegfried*, a virtual reality work for Bayreuth. He has also staged Adès's *Powder Her Face* for New York City Opera, Beethoven's *Fidelio*, Monteverdi's *Il ritorno d'Ulisse in patria*, and his own live-cinema adaptations of Chekhov and Bergman. His work has been seen at BAM's Next Wave Festival, The Kitchen, the Walker Art Center, Spoleto and Luminato, and across Europe and Asia.

His West End staging of *Bat Out of Hell* won the 2018 Evening Standard Award for Best Musical and has toured more than 45 cities. He received an OBIE Award for Best Director and a Guggenheim Fellowship, and was named one of 25 theater artists likely to shape American theater over the next 25 years by *American Theatre*.