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.
Plays include Wilderness; King Gilgamesh, Rip van Winkle, February House (with Gabriel Kahane, Public Theater) and 2666 (with Robert Falls, from the novel by Roberto Bolaño) as well as adaptations from stories by George Saunders: Jon and CommComm.
He wrote the screenplay for short feature The Cartographer, has published fiction and poetry, and collaborated on interdisciplinary projects such as YOU:MATTER by Marshmallow Laser Feast. With composer Russell Hepplewhite he created the international children’s choir project The World We Share.
Current projects include a musical about chatbots of the dead and a road-trip stoner theater/film hybrid Don Quixote.
More at sethbockley.com