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> Artists > JYANA |
| Name |
Jyana
S. Gregory |
| Title |
Artistic
Director |
| Born |
Boston,
MA |
| Sign |
Leo |
| Little
Years |
Zen
Center Los Angeles |
| Grew Up |
East
Central Illinois, Land of Soybeans |
| Surprise |
At 17
whole family moves to Tokyo |
| College |
Yale -
watches Godard and directs weird plays (Italian
Futurists and Gertrude Stein) |
| Post-College |
Back to
Japan! |
| NYC
arrival |
1999 |
| 1st NYC
Theater Experience |
intern
on Richard Foreman's Bad Boy Nietzche! |
| Recent
Years |
Works on
own plays and plays with David Herskovits and Chen
Shi-Zheng, works at MTV, reads Murakami and Anne
Carsen, meets Rika and makes plays.
Crazy Adventure: gets a grant from TCG and goes to
Cleveland for 2 years
Cleveland Years: joins and aikido dojo, has a big
apartment and lots of plants, works a lot, makes
more plays and reads Virigina Woolf, Jane
Hirschfield, big Chinese books, and Maigret
mysteries)
Now: back in NYC,
eating Korean food and Greek yogurt, reading Phillip
Pullman and Joan Dideon. |
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"...their
collaborative process is crucial to the production, in
which the musical and visual elements are as important to
the storytelling as the script..." -Cleveland
Free Times |
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