Esther Neff - United States

ESTHER NEFF (USA) received a BFA Directing from the University of Michigan. She has studied at the Royal Shakespeare Company, directed for the late Arthur Miller and shown work at chashama, the Brooklyn Arts Exchange, Dixon Place, the West End Theatre, The Impact Theatre, and The Battle Ranch, amongst other venues in NYC, and in parks, plazas, parking lots and other public spaces nationwide and in Munich, Germany. With fellow Internationalists Dina Keller, Callconnectcollect, a simultaneous performance in Brooklyn and Munich, and The Institute for Local Discovery Proudly Presents Bavaria Rundgang, a tour/performance on the Theresienwiese in Munich. Esther is also a co-founder of the inter-disciplinary collective the Panoply Performance Laboratory, with whom she has directed/written On the Cranial Nerves of Barbarians, an operetta, The Silviculture Museum, a miniature museum and performance with Chiasui Chen (Taiwan) and Herbie Go (The Philippines), Schooled and Unschooled, a class, Cultur(e)ality, Part I; Loud is the Oral Diary of the Western World, a fight/dance work with Chiasui Chen and Tess Jamias (the Philippines), and In the Company of Eshu, a performance/film in collaboration with performance artist Godwin Obeng (Ghana). Also a sculptor, painter and essayist, Esther lives in Brooklyn and works at the New York Foundation for the Arts (NYFA). For The Internationalists, Esther has directed a staged reading of Women of War by Jawad Al-Assadi (Iraq) for Around the World in 24 Hours and The Seven Deadly Sins: Pride.

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