Background
He was born 1951 in Battle Creek, Michigan.
He was born 1951 in Battle Creek, Michigan.
Jesurun received his Bachelor of Fine Arts from the Philadelphia College of Art in 1972 and his Master of Fine Arts in Sculpture from Yale University in 1974.
His work Chang in a Void Moon is a live serial running since 1983, originally at the Pyramid Club in the East Village, and now less frequently at venues worldwide. From 1976 ro 1979 Jesurun was a television content analyst for Columbia Broadcasting System. From 1979 to 1982 he was assistant producer of the Dick Cavett Show. In 1982 he began his theatrical career at the Pyramid Club on the Lower East Side with his serial play Chang in a Void Moon.
Since 1984 he has written, directed and designed over 25 pieces.
Works
Jesurun"s company has toured extensively in Europe and the United States. His work has been produced and presented by numerous venues including Louisiana Mama, the Kitchen, Dance Theater Workshop, the Walker Arts Center, On the Boards, Brooklyn Academy of Music, the Wexner Center, Kampnagel Theater, Prater Theater, National Theatre of Mexico, Mickery Theater, Theater am Turm, Granada Festival, Eurokaz Zagreb, Bogota International Festival, Vienna Festival,Kyoto Performing Arts Center and Spoleto United States of America. His short films have been shown at festivals and alternative spaces in Europe and the United States.
Jesurun is the recipient of numerous grants including the:
Rockefeller Foundation Playwrights Fellowship
Guggenheim Foundation Fellowship
National Endowment for the Arts Playwrights Fellowship
Foundation for Contemporary Performance Arts Fellowship
MacArthur Fellowship
National Endowment for the Arts-Visual and Media Arts Fellowships
Asian Cultural Council
Rockefeller Multi-Arts Production
Brooklyn Academy of Music/Lucent Technologies Arts in Multimedia
Map Fund
Jesurun has taught theater at Goethe University, Frankfurt.
Justus Liebig University, Giessen. DASARTS,Amsterdam; New York University.
LaMaMa Umbria; Tokyo University.
Kyoto University of Art and Design. And the New School.