David Bassuk
ExPERIENCE
ARTISTIC LEADERSHIP, ADMINISTRATION AND ENTREPENUERSHIP
CREATIVE DIRECTOR, INTERNATIONAL THEATER WORKS
- 2015-2017
- DEVISED THEME PARK USING ANCIENT MAYAN DESIGN COMBINED WITH ALIEN SCI-FI THEMING
- GAME AND NARRATIVE DESIGN
- CHARACTER AND IMMERSIVE DESIGN
DEAN OF THEATER ARTS & FILM, PURCHASE COLLEGE, STATE UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK
- 2003-2007
- LEADERSHIP OF FOUR SCHOOLS, ACTING, DESIGN TECH, DRAMATIC WRITING & FILM
- PRODUCED SEVEN-PLAY SEASONS
- FUNDRAISING, MARKETING, RECRUITMENT
- BUILT NATIONAL AWARENESS OF THE SCHOOLS
ARTISTIC DIRECTOR, NOVEL STAGES THEATER COMPANY PHILADELPHIA PA
- 1988-1997
- Presented ten seasons of work that included nineteen world premieres
- Adapted works by authors, Emile Zola, William Faulkner
- Original plays by Nadine Gordimer, Chaim Potok and Kurt Vonnegut
- Theater was constituent member of National organization -Theater Communications Group
Director of theater, Arcadia University, glenside pa
- Director 1990-2003
- 2002 BFA in Acting: Music-Theater track
- 2001 BFA in Acting
- 1996 MFA in Multimedia Performance Studies
producing artistic director, Arcadia Shakespeare festival
- 2001-2003
- Summer Shakespeare Festival working under an equity small professional theatre contract
- produced four professional productions
- Camp Shakespeare for young student enrolled three sessions each year
ARTISTIC ASSOCIATE
Lincoln Center theater, Dramaturgy & Casting
- 1985-1988
- Served as associate casting director for Vivian Beaumont and Mitzi Newhouse Theaters.
- Worked on Jerome Robbin’s workshop of Leonard Bernstein’s, Stephen Sondheim’s and John Guare’s adaptation of Bertolt Brecht’s Exception and the Rule
- Comedy of Errors, Anything Goes, and Arthur Miller’s Danger/Memory.
DIRECTOR OF AMERICAN HUMORISTS SERIES
American Place Theater, New York City, NY
- Development of new projects and the identification of contemporary writers who might be encouraged to write or perform for the theater. Wrote and coordinated 1985 Rockefeller Foundation Anniversary presentation.
DRAMATURG/DIRECTOR Collected Plays of Chaim Potok
- Assisted in the publication of “The Collected Plays of Chaim Potok,” reviewed extensive hours of video tapes of original 1990 production of Potok’s play “Out of the Depths,” The extant manuscript was flawed – this effort lead to successful publishing of the collecton released in October 2018 by Monkfish books