Thaddeus Phillips
Thaddeus Phillips is a theater director, performer, set designer, and 2002 Pew Fellow whose creations often juxtapose the everyday with the extraordinary. An imaginative storyteller, Phillips says he views theater as a "liquid art form" and "the stage as a transformational space." His work has been presented in the US and abroad at numerous venues and festivals, including the BAM Next Wave Festival, New York Theatre Workshop, the Perth International Arts Festival, and the Edinburgh Festival Fringe. Center-funded work by Phillips includes Red-Eye to Havre de Grace, an action-opera based on Edgar Allan Poe's final days, which was hailed as "among the most original musical theater works I've seen in years" by The New York Times critic Charles Isherwood. In Microworld(s), a solo piece about a Serbian immigrant, audience members powered the lights by bicycling in the lobby. A recipient of a 2016 Doris Duke Performing Artist Award, Phillips earned his BA from Colorado College in Colorado Springs and attended Charles University Theater Academy in Prague. In 2016, Phillips received Center support to devise A Billion Nights On Earth, a visual theater work for children and adults that will blend performance art, pop-up storybook design techniques, and a cinematic score.
