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Jeffrey Mosser
he/him

Unpacking the expectations of how theatre can be made.

Jeffrey Mosser (he.him) is currently the Artistic Producer: Director of the Emerging Professional Residency at Milwaukee Repertory Theater, Lecturer at University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, and host of the HowlRound Theatre Commons podcast FROM THE GROUND UP: a show dedicated to exploring the artistic, financial, and social sustainability of ensemble-based theater practices with collaboratively creative companies from around the world. 

Primarily a director and devisor, his practices stem from physical composition having trained at Dell’Arte School of Physical Theatre, Double Edge Theatre, Pig Iron School for Advanced Performance Training, and with internationally known artists such as Giovanni Fusetti, Dominque Serrand, Liz Lerman, and Augusto Boal.

He has contributed to new play development at Lookingglass Theatre, Goodman Theatre, Northlight Theatre, Oregon Shakespeare Festival, Milwaukee Repertory Theater, O’Neill Theater Center, Milwaukee Repertory Theater, and Actors Theatre of Louisville with directors and playwrights including Anne Bogart, Jamie Castañeda, David Catlin, Trip Cullman, Sean Daniels, Michael Friedman, Lauren Gunderson, Israel Hicks, Mike Lew, Kirk Lynn, Mark Masterson, Aaron Posner, Jessica Thebus, and Mary Zimmerman.

He’s also an Aquarius and don’t you forget it. MFA Northwestern University, www.JeffreyMosser.com IG: @Ensemble_Ethnographer

A poster for Fornicated From The Beatles.
Essay

The Psychology of the Audience

The departure from traditional theater means that anything is possible

24 November 2012

Jeffrey Mosser seeks the vast possibilities of immersive theatre when an audience is allowed to explore and discover.

A mask from Sleep No More.
Essay

Introducing the Psychology of the Audience Series

15 November 2012

Seeking insight into what makes immersive theatre work for an audience, Jeffrey Mosser observes three productions: How to Build a Forest, Sleep No More, and Mikhael Tara Garver's Fornicated From the Beatles. This four post series includes interviews with creators as well as with patrons pre and post show.

A promotional graphic for From The Ground Up
Series

From the Ground Up Podcast

Focused on collaboratively creative performance companies, From the Ground Up connects with theatremakers to understand the artistic, financial, and social sustainability of physical, devised, and ensemble-based processes.

Series

Ensembles Making and Paying for Art

Jeffrey Mosser does three case studies of established ensemble theatres exploring the creating and paying for the art.

Series

Psychology of the Audience

Seeking insight into what makes immersive theater work for an audience, Jeffrey Mosser observes three productions: How to Build a Forest, Sleep No More, and Mikhael Tara Garver's Fornicated From the Beatles.

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