Brown | Trinity Rep M.F.A. Programs in Acting and Directing

Nicolas Benacerraf is a space-maker. As a director, scenographer, and scholar of live performance, he engineers consent-based systems and environments for genuine human encounters in theaters, galleries, concert halls, and streets. For over a decade Nic was co-Artistic Director of The Assembly (http://www.assemblytheater.org/), a Brooklyn-based theater collective dedicated to building slow-cooked works about pressing social issues, where he developed original techniques to build design in deep collaboration with performers and authors in the rehearsal environment. Now he is Founding Partner of Edge Effect Media Group, a polydisciplinary research and performance lab. Nic received an MFA in Scenic Design from CalArts, and he is finishing his PhD in Theatre & Performance at the CUNY Graduate Center. His scholarship uses dramaturgical strategies to unmask the field of Public Relations as the propaganda arm of the “capitalist, imperialist, white-supremacist patriarchy” (bell hooks). Images of Nic’s work can be found at http://www.nicbenacerraf.com/.