John Jesurun is a media artist, writer and director based in New York. His presentations integrate elements of language, architectural space and media. His exploded narratives cover a wide range of themes and explore the relation of form to content. They challenge the experience of verbal, visual and intangible perceptions. His work is distinguished by his integrated creation of the text, direction, set and media design.

B.F.A. Philadelphia College of Art/1972. M.F.A. in Sculpture from Yale University/1974. From 1976 to 1979 he served as a Television Content Analyst for CBS. From  1979 to 1982 he was assistant to the producer for The Dick Cavett Show producing interviews with John Hammond Sr., Odetta, Tito Puente and John and Mackenzie Phillips. In 1982 he began began his theatrical career at the Pyramid Club on the Lower East Side with his groundbreaking serial play CHANG IN A  VOID MOON, now in its 62th episode. (Bessie Award). Since 1984 he has written,directed and designed  over 35  pieces including: the media trilogy of DEEP SLEEP (1986 Obie Award, Best Play),WHITE WATER and  BLACK MARIA, NUMBER  MINUS  ONE, DOG’S EYE VIEW, RED HOUSE, PHILOKTETES,  SHATTERHAND MASSACREE, SLIGHT,RETURN, EVERYTHING THAT RISES MUST CONVERGE,FIREFALL and SNOW. His company has toured extensively  in Europe and the United States.

Varied directing/design credits include Roy Nathanson’s Jazz Suite, “Fire at Keaton’s” with Debby Harry and Elvis Costello at St. Ann’s, Brooklyn, Harry Partch’s opera “Delusion of the Fury” at the Japan Society and music video for Jeff Buckley. His work has been produced and presented by numerous venues including La Mama, the Kitchen, the Walker Arts Center, On the Boards, Brooklyn Academy of Music, the Wexner Center, Kampnagel Theater, National Theater of Mexico, Mickery Theater,  Granada Festival,  Eurokaz Zagreb, Bogota International Festival, Vienna Festival, Kyoto Performing Arts Center and Spoleto USA.  His short films have been shown at festivals and alternative spaces in Europe and the US.

He is the recipient of numerous grants including fellowships from the Rockefeller Foundation,  Guggenheim Foundation, the Rome Prize, Asian Cultural Council, National Endowment for the Arts and Foundation for Contemporary Arts. He is a 1996 MacArthur Foundation Fellow.