Evan Silver

Evan Silver aka Tiresias is a hybrid writer, director, composer, and performer based in NYC. Recently called “a rara avis of experimental theatre” by The New Yorker, their work aims to divine new ecologies and mythologies toward more habitable futures on planet Earth. Silver is a 2024 Artist-in-Residence at the Sitka Center for Art & Ecology and the Museum für Naturkunde in Berlin, a 2023 MacDowell Fellow, a 2023 Artist-in-Residence at the cell theatre, the Mercury 

Store, and the Diverse Intelligences Summer Institute, a 2023 Puffin Foundation Grant recipient, a 2021 & 2017 Artist-in-Residence at the Bali Purnati Center for the Arts, a 2019 Fulbright Scholar, a 2019 Rylands Award recipient, a 2017-19 Marshall Scholar, and a 2016 Luce Fellow in Indonesia. Tiresias has written and directed 19 original theatre productions on three continents, and had written work published in Epiphany, Eclectica, The Mays, Audrey Niffenegger’s Artists Book House, and Roxane Gay’s The Audacity.

Evan’s website: https://evansilver.net/

IG @whoistiresias