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Seth Bockley

Seth Bockley is a writer and director based in the great Midwest. His work has been seen at theaters around the country including Goodman Theatre, Victory Gardens, Sideshow, Red Tape, and Dog and Pony in Chicago, and The Public Theater, Foundry and En Garde Arts in New York. He has also created work in Mexico City with company La Piara, and with the Donegal Arts Festival in Ireland. He teaches at the University of Chicago.Seth Bockley is a Chicago-based playwright, director and performer. He has created theater with several Chicago companies including Collaboraction, Dog & Pony and Redmoon, where he spent two years as a Directing Apprentice through TCG's New Generations program. Current commissions include the book for February House, a collaboration with lyricist and composer Gabriel Kahane for the Public Theater. Upcoming directing efforts include Civilization (all you can eat) by Jason Grote for Clubbed Thumb (NYC). He is a member of the Goodman Theater Playwrights' Unit and a recipient of the Goodman's Ofner Prize.

Imagining What You Think You Can’t Imagine
Essay

Imagining What You Think You Can’t Imagine

A Conversation between Morgan Jenness, Anne Hamburger, and Seth Bockley

29 January 2017

Morgann Jenness facilitates a conversation with Anne Hamburger and Seth Bockley on their collaborative development and production of Wilderness.

Writing for the Moon (and other adventures in object theater)
Essay

Writing for the Moon (and other adventures in object theater)

19 May 2011

Puppetry is the bastard nephew of so-called legitimate theater. Yet puppetry stubbornly persists, even flourishes, in our digital age as an intentionally Luddite approach to an emphatically live art.