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Theater
Abi Basch (2006-07)
Abi is a playwright, director, and the Artistic Director of German/American physical theater company Kinderdeutsch Projekts (www.kinderdeutsch.org). Her plays have been produced at venues such as Galerie Intransitos (Berlin), Theaterhaus Hildesheim (Hildesheim), the Patravadi Theatre (Bangkok), 7 Stages (Atlanta), and Salvage Vanguard (Austin). She has been awarded two Jerome Fellowships from the Playwrights' Center and a Fulbright Scholarship. Abi holds an AB in History from Brown University and an MFA in Playwriting from the University of Texas at Austin. As a German Chancellor Fellow she worked with architect Swen Kaehlert, principal dancers from the Hamburg Ballett, and Kinderdeutsch Projekts to develop a performance resulting in the production of "Foreign C." at Richard Foreman's Ontological-Hysteric Theater in June 2008. Abi is currently based in San Francisco. (6/26/09)
Talaya Delaney (2005-06)
Talaya Delaney is a playwright and academic. She has recently completed her doctorate at Harvard University in the History of American Civilization Department and is currently doing a postdoctorate at Vassar College, where she teaches playwriting and history in the drama department. Her plays have been workshopped and produced in Dublin, Berlin, and Houston. Upcoming play productions in 2009 include Harlem Berlin (opening October 2nd in New York), The Irish Queen (opening in July in Western Massachusetts), The North Country (2010), and an as yet untitled piece about Cuban-American artist Ana Mendieta, to preview at the Romeras de Mayo in Cuba in May 2010. The short film A House in the North Country, based on her play and directed by Kevin Everson, will be released in the fall of 2009 and a new feature with Kevin is tenatively scheduled to be shot in March 2010 in upstate New York. Talaya will be based in Temuco, Chile for a year beginning in June 2010. (6/26/09)
Ehren Fordyce (2005-06)
Ehren is an independent scholar and artist living in Berlin, Germany, where his work focuses on post-dramatic theatre and documentary film.(12/2/09)
Jonathan Fox (1991-92)
Jonathan Fox is Executive Artistic Director of Ensemble Theater Company in Santa Barbara, California. His recent European directing work includes several productions at the English Theater of Frankfurt, Vienna’s English Theatre, and Theater Basel. His work has received critical acclaim in The New York Times, The LA Times, Variety and other publications, and has been profiled in American Theater Magazine. He is an adjunct Lecturer at UC Santa Barbara. As a German Chancellor Fellow, Jonathan studied the German theater system and creative process. (6/19/09)
Mark Jackson (2004-05)
Mark spent his year as a German Chancellor Fellow in Berlin working with and observing a variety of artists and organizations that bring theater and dance together. Mark graduated magna cum laude from San Francisco Sate University with a BA in Theater Arts in 1994. He was the founding Artistic Director of Art Street Theatre from 1995 to 2004, during which time he wrote and directed numerous plays for the company. Mark has also written, directed, and/or led theater workshops for Aurora Theatre, Encore Theatre, Shotgun Players, Julie Morgan Center or the Arts, Mime Centrum Berlin, and Universität der Künste Berlin, among others. Mark works as a freelance playwright and director, and regularly serves on the faculties of San Francisco State University and American Conservatory Theater. He returned to Berlin in 2007 to create a new theater piece with Sommer Ulrickson (BUKA 1998), which premiered at Deutsches Theater Berlin. Sommer and Mark will collaborate again on a new piece commissioned by Schauspiel Frankfurt in the Fall of 2009. Mark can be found digitally at www.artstreettheatre.org. (7/2/09)
Daniel Mufson (1995-96)
Daniel is residing in Berlin, where he is a freelance journalist and translator. He was previously Assistant Professor of Theater History at Brooklyn College-CUNY. His expertise is in theater after 1870. As a German Chancellor Fellow, he studied contemporary German theater and researched the European response to Reza Abdoh, the Iranian-American playwright/director who was the subject of his doctoral dissertation. (7/26/07)
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