Nathan Yungerberg
Nathan Yungerberg is a Brooklyn-based Afro-surrealist who writes for television, audio drama, and theater.
He is head writer for the award-winning podcast Live from Mount Olympus and has also written for Sesame Street. His plays have been developed or presented by the National Black Theatre, New York Theatre Workshop, Joe’s Pub at the Public Theater, Apollo Theater, Roundabout Theatre Company, the Alliance Theatre, The Fire This Time Festival, 48 Hours in Harlem, and Blackboard Plays, among others. He was commissioned by The New Black Fest for Hands Up: 7 Playwrights, 7 Testaments, published by Concord Theatricals and adapted by BBC Radio. His play Esai’s Table was featured in the Cherry Lane Theatre Mentor Project, mentored by Stephen Adly Guirgis. His honors include a Jerome Hill Artist Fellowship, the I AM SOUL Playwright Residency at National Black Theatre, the Playwrights’ Center Core Writer Residency, and the Djerassi Resident Artists Program.
As a Space Grant Recipient, Nathan will have access to Hi-ARTS rehearsal spaces, and conference rooms for the ongoing development of the Untitled Afro-Surreal Project. Situated outside of Hi-ARTS traditional residency format, grantees receive the use of space for creative and administrative development of a body of work at no cost.
About Untitled Afro-Surreal Project
As a Space Grant Recipient, Nathan will have access to Hi-ARTS rehearsal spaces, and conference rooms for the ongoing development of the Untitled Afro-Surreal Project. Situated outside of Hi-ARTS traditional residency format, grantees receive the use of space for creative and administrative development of a body of work at no cost.
The Untitled Afro-Surreal Project is grounded in Afro-surrealism, and draws on narrative, sound, movement, and visual symbolism to explore memory, interiority, and the porous boundary between the real and the imagined.
“Studio time will be used for drafting, improvisation, and embodied experimentation, with the goal of either shaping a new work or generating core material that will inform a future project.”
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