BIO
Yehuda Duenyas is a director, designer, producer, actor, and founding member of the Obie-award winning collaborative the National Theater of the United States of America.
He has adapted one short story and one novel for the stage—"Pastoralia" by George Saunders (published 2007, Dramatics Inc.) and Molloy by Samuel Beckett. He is currently creating theatrical adaptations of Malcolm Gladwell's best-selling book Blink , and George Saunderss short story "Brad Carrigan, American."
His original works include X9601733 (HERE, 1998), The Disappearing Act (Ontological, 1998), Brains (Walker Space, 1999), 7 Minutes in Heaven (Ontological, 1999), 5 (SoHo Rep. 1999/2000), hors-la (chashama, 2000), Phase I-selling out to the bare walls (created with longtime collaborator Ryan Bronz; chashama, 2000).
Yehuda has performed and toured with Richard Maxwell's Obie award-winning House , Richard Foreman's Obie award-winning Pearls for Pigs , Phil Soltanoff/Maddog's to whom it may concern , and has performed and designed in various venues and festivals around the world including BITEF (Serbia), Festival D'Automne (Paris), Theatre Der Welt (Berlin), Holland Festival (Amsterdam), Dublin Fringe Festival, Wienner Festwochen (Vienna), Festival Theatre Des Ameriques (Montreal), Teatro San Martin (Argentina), Teatro Valle (Rome), The Roxy Theater (Prague) and the Williamstown Theater Festival, among others.
He is the recipient of a MacDowell fellowship, 2007; a HERE Artists Residency, 2008-2010; studied theater and clown with Philippe Gaulier, and holds a BS in theater cum laude from Skidmore College.
