Jay Scheib. (1969) Studied theater, fine arts, video and performance, receiving his MFA in Directing at Columbia University, School of the Arts in New York. With an MIT -  New York-based ensemble, Jay Scheib & Co., Scheib began developing a transdisciplinary, improvisation-rich approach to performance. Scheib’s works have been presented world-wide and are acclaimed for evolving meaningful entanglements with emerging technologies in the performing arts. Current and recent works include a new staging of Richard Wagner’s Parsifal for the Bayreuther Festspiele, in Bayreuth, Germany, and the premiere of Paola Prestini’s opera at the intersection of AI and disability, Sensorium Ex which premiered with the Common Senses Festival in Omaha Nebraska, followed by its recent showing at the Royal Ballet and Opera House in London as part of the RBO/Shift Festival. Other productions include Thomas Adès’ Powder her Face with New York City Opera, Beethoven’s Fidelio, the Monteverdi opera Il ritorno d'Ulisse in patria, and a Virtual Reality experience, Sei Siegfried, as part of an experimental Ring cycle with the Bayreuther Festspiele. With composer Giorgos Kouroupou Scheib staged Pylades and Jocasta, both for the Athens Epidarus Festival. Other recent collaborations include a new staging of the Tod Machover composed, Artificial Intelligence-infused, Valis, based on the Philip K Dick novel.

Winner of the Evening Standard award for Best Musical in 2018, Scheib’s West End staging of Jim Steinman’s Bat Out of Hell, continues to tour internationally, having played over 80 cities. Scheib received an OBIE Award for Best Director for his Fassbinder adaptation, Word of Wires and the renowned Guggenheim Fellowship for his adaptation of Samuel Delany's epoch-making novel Dhalgren, under the title Bellona, Destroyer of Cities. 

Scheib is a senior professor for contemporary performance practices at MIT, where he Heads the Music and Theater Arts programs, and directs the Performance Scenography Studio.