TOO Episode 146 - Conversation with Executive Artistic Director David Bruin

In this episode, Adam and Budi speak with the Executive Artistic Director of The Celebration Barn, David Bruin.

David Bruin (he/him) is a producer, curator, dramaturg, and scholar of theater and performance. He has served as the executive artistic director of Celebration Barn since the fall of 2021. From 2019 through 2021, he worked as a co-curator of the annual Prelude Festival, a program of the Martin E. Segal Theater Center at CUNY. He was a co-artistic director of Yale Cabaret during its 2015-16 season, where he co-curated the inaugural Satellite Festival. As a dramaturg, he has collaborated with Robert Woodruff, Liz Diamond, Lars Jan, and Asa Horvitz, and he has produced new works by Jeremy O. Harris and Erin Markey. He has worked as a theater consultant for Scott Rudin Productions and currently works as a creative consultant for Jeff Augustin. He is a co-editor, along with Melanie Joseph, of A Moment on the Clock of the World (Haymarket Books, 2019), an anthology of new writing inspired by the Foundry Theatre. He has held editorial positions at Yale’s Theater magazine, and his writing has appeared in Theater, The Brooklyn Rail, and HowlRound.

Mentioned in this episode:

Miss Cleo
IPCC Climate Report
Elihu Yale
Susan Sontag's Regarding the Pain of Others
Dean Evans
Proper pronunciation of Niche
Milo Rau
Encompass Collective
Amiri Baraka
Autobiography of Frederick Douglas
Anticapitalism for Artists