Seth Bockley

Seth Bockley is a playwright, director, and producer based in Brooklyn. He specializes in literary adaptation, new play development and site-responsive works. Plays include Wilderness; King Gilgamesh, Rip van Winkle, February House (with Gabriel Kahane, Public Theater) and 2666 (with Robert Falls, from the novel by Roberto Bolaño) as well as adaptations from stories by George Saunders: "Jon" and "CommComm." Directing credits include King Gilgamesh (Under The Radar, NYC; Soulpepper Theatre, Toronto), site-specific Utopian epic More Perfect Places, NYT Critics’ Picks Wilderness and Basetrack Live with En Garde Arts (Abrons Arts Center, NYC), 2666 (Goodman Theater), Lauren Yee’s Samsara and Philip Dawkins’ Failure: A Love Story (Victory Gardens, Chicago); Jason Grote’s Civilization (all you can eat) and 1001; the clown play Guerra, with Mexico City-based troupe La Piara (toured Mexico, Colombia, and the U.S.). Current projects include a musical about chatbots of the dead and a road-trip stoner theater/film hybrid Don Quixote.