Executive Artistic Director
David Bruin (he/him) is a producer, curator, dramaturg, and scholar of theater and performance. He has served as the executive artistic director of Celebration Barn since the fall of 2021. From 2019 through 2021, he worked as a co-curator of the annual Prelude Festival, a program of the Martin E. Segal Theater Center at CUNY. He was a co-artistic director of Yale Cabaret during its 2015-16 season, where he co-curated the inaugural Satellite Festival. As a dramaturg, he has collaborated with Robert Woodruff, Liz Diamond, Lars Jan, and Asa Horvitz, and he has produced new work by Jeremy O. Harris and Erin Markey. He has worked as a theater consultant for Scott Rudin Productions, and currently works as a creative consultant for Jeff Augustin. He is a co-editor, along with Melanie Joseph, of A Moment on the Clock of the World (Haymarket Books, 2019), an anthology of new writing inspired by the Foundry Theatre. He has held editorial positions at Yale’s Theater magazine, and his writing has appeared in Theater, The Brooklyn Rail, and HowlRound. He has taught at the David Geffen School of Drama at Yale University and Yale College, and he is currently an adjunct instructor in the Department of Drama at New York University, where he teaches courses in theater studies.