David Bruin
Adjunct Instructor
David Bruin is a producer, curator, dramaturg, and scholar of theater and performance. Since 2021, he has served as the executive artistic director of Celebration Barn, a center for physical theater training and performance in South Paris, Maine. 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, and Lars Jan, 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.