Seth Bockley is a playwright, director, and producer based in Brooklyn. With roots in Chicago, and a career spanning genres and styles, he specializes in literary adaptation, design-driven projects and site-responsive works.
Directing credits include King Gilgamesh (Under The Radar, NYC; Soulpepper Theatre, Toronto), 2666 (with Robert Falls, from the novel by Roberto Bolaño) as well as adaptations from stories by George Saunders: Jon and CommComm, the site-specific Utopian epic More Perfect Places, NYT Critics’ Picks Wilderness and Basetrack Live with En Garde Arts (Abrons Arts Center, NYC), Lauren Yee’s Samsara and Philip Dawkins’ Failure: A Love Story (Victory Gardens, Chicago); Jason Grote’s Civilization (all you can eat) and 1001; the clown play Guerra, with Mexico City-based troupe La Piara (toured Mexico, Colombia, and the U.S.).
Current projects include a musical about chatbots of the dead and a road-trip stoner theater/film hybrid Don Quixote.
More at sethbockley.com