Kirby Malone

 


Kirby Malone is a writer, director and projection designer, and teaches Cyberpunk and Performance Studio as a professor of InterArts at George Mason University. His work has appeared at the Brooklyn Academy of Music’s NEXT WAVE Festival, Seattle Rep, Arena Stage, Baltimore Theatre Project, Center Stage, Peabody Chamber Opera, Theatre Cornell, Painted Bride Art Center, Theatre X, Banff Centre/School of Fine Arts and Minnesota Opera’s OPERA TOMORROW Festival. Directing credits include the original productions Silence & Darkness, a live movie for the cell phone age; Time Traveler Zero Zero, a story of John Titor; Auto-Bodies; The Pleasure Raiders; and Columbus, a ghost story; Caryl Churchill’s Light Shining in Buckinghamshire; Vladimir Mayakovsy’s Bath House; Linda Hartinian’s adaptation of Philip K. Dick’s Flow My Tears, the Policeman Said; and the operas Chatter & Static by Paul Mathews, The Defendants Rosenberg by Ari Benjamin Meyer, and Komar & Melamid’s Naked Revolution. He has created multimedia designs for Bertolt Brecht’s Caucasian Chalk Circle, Ödön von Horváth’s Judgement Day, Mac Wellman’s Bad Infinity, Anna Deavere Smith’s House Arrest, Marlane G. Mayer’s Etta Jenks, David Mamet’s The Water Engine and Theatre X’s Bode-wad-mi: Keepers of the Fire. His multimedia productions have been featured in two cover stories in American Theatre in 1987 and 1995. His profile of the German filmmaker Rainer Werner Fassbinder was featured on NPR’s All Things Considered.