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Jay Scheib is an interdisciplinary director, designer, and author of operas, plays, musicals and other hybrid live performance events. A Professor for Music and Theater Arts at MIT, Scheib’s workshops, performances and interventions have been presented throughout Europe and the United States. Recent productions include a 2023 new staging of Richard Wagner’s “Parsifal” for Bayreuther Festspiele. Other recent works as a director include the Tod Machover opera collaboration, “Valis,” after the novel by Philip K Dick, with MIT’s Center for Art Science and Technology, and the VR opera experience “Sei Siegfried,” in Bayreuth as part of the 2021 Ring. Past productions have included several world premieres including Bellona, Destroyer of Cities, after Samuel Delany’s novel Dhalgren at The Kitchen in New York and Festival D’Automne Paris; Na’ama Zisser’s “Mamzer/Basterd” with the Royal Opera House, London; an adaptation of Ingmar Bergman’s “Persona,” with Beth Morrison Projects at National Sawdust, and in the West End Scheib staged Jim Steinman’s “Bat Out of Hell,” at the Coliseum and world-wide. Winner of an Obie Award for Best Direction, a Guggenheim Fellowship, and the MIT Edgerton Award, Scheib received his MFA in Directing from Columbia University School of the Arts.