In addition to his own work, Neu has collaborated with theater companies Otrabanda, the Talking Band and Bloolips and written text for dance works by David Woodberry, Yoshiko Chuma, Charles Moulton, Cathy Weis and Douglas Dunn. He also wrote the screenplays for Andrew Horn's films "Doomed Love" and "The Big Blue," which both premiered at the Berlin Film Festival. Neu is recipient of a National Endowment for the Arts. Fellowship for New Genres, New York Foundation for the Arts Playwriting Fellowship, a New Works grant by the New York State Council on the Arts and 2000 ArtsLink Collaborative Projects Award.
Reviewing Neu's "Target Audience: The Code of the Western" (2003-4), Robert Simonson wrote in Time Out, "Playwright-actor Jim Neu...may be the most unfairly uncelebrated of downtown auteurs. Neu is as adept at twisting language and meaning as Mac Wellman, has been as artistically consistent as Richard Foreman and was cleaving his texts to disorienting songs long before Richard Maxwell was old enough to drink."
Jim Neu's creative history is documented on www.JimNeu.com. The site contains insightful introductions by Ulla Dydo and Keith McDermott, overviews (with photos) of all his plays from 1985 to the present, as well as a chronology of his artistic career beginning with his early days in Robert Wilson's company (1970-75).
Runs one hour.
December 4 to 21, 2008
La MaMa E.T.C. (First Floor Theater), 74A East Fourth Street, Manhattan Presented by La MaMa E.T.C.
Thursdays through Saturdays at 8:00 pm; Sundays at 2:30 pm and 8:00 pm
$18 tdf/v
Box office (212) 475-7710; online ticketing available at www.lamama.org Runs one hour. Critics are invited on or after December 5.
