Jay Scheib
Section Head;
Music and Theater Arts;
Class of 1949 Professor
Internationally known for genre-defying works of daring physicality and the integration of new (and used) technologies in live performance, Jay Scheib’s recent productions include Richard Wagner’s “Parsifal,” for the Bayreuth Festspiele which premiered in 2023 and will have its final run in 2026. Named Best New York Theater Director by Time Out New York in 2009, and one of the 25 theater artists shaping the next 25 years of American theater, by American Theater Magazine, Scheib is a recipient of the MIT Edgerton Award, The Richard Sherwood Award, a National Endowment for the Arts/TCG fellowship, an OBIE Award for Best Direction and the prestigious Guggenheim Fellowship. He is a Professor for Music and Theater Arts at Massachusetts Institute of Technology where he teaches in the Program for Theater Arts.
