Artistic directors

Josh Luxenberg
Co-Founder & Co-Artistic Director

Jonathan Levin
Co-Founder & Co-Artistic Director

Staff

Audrey Frischman
Producer

Rosalind Grush
Development Consultant

Octopus Theatricals
A Hunger Artist Tour Producer & Booking Agent

 

ASSOCIATE ARTISTS

SSP's Associate Artists are the people we collaborate with most, whose artistic sensibility is an essential part of what defines the company's work.

Jesse Garrison
Video & interactive designer, performer

Erik Lochtefeld
Performer

Joshua William Gelb
Director, performer, playwright

Jin Maley
Performer

Kate McGee
Lighting designer

Clare McNulty
Performer

Carolyn Mraz
Set designer

Hanley Smith
Performer

M. Florian Staab
Sound Designer

Peiyi Wong
Set & costume designer

Eric Wright
Puppet designer, performer

 
 

About Us

Josh Luxenberg

Josh Luxenberg is Sinking Ship’s co-Artistic Director. He is a playwright, director, and photographer. Credits with SSP include: Cassandra, an Agony (J. Paul Getty Museum, commission), The 7th Voyage of Egon Tichy (Theater in Quarantine, a NY Times Critics Pick), A Hunger Artist (Connelly Theater/The Tank, nominated for two 2018 Drama Desk Awards, and winner of Summerhall's Lustrum Award for Excellence at the Edinburgh Fringe 2017), Powerhouse (New Ohio, O’Neill Playwrights Conference Finalist, NY Times Critics Pick), Ocean (Mabou Mines Residency), Flatland (EST/Sloan Commission), there will come soft rains (FringeNYC). Josh co-wrote The Dial, an interactive narrative augmented reality installation created by NightLight Labs (premiere at Sundance Film Festival 2019). Josh is the General Manager of the Connelly Theater, where his programming includes Mandy Patinkin in Concert: Diaries (New York Theatre Workshop), The Lucky Ones (Ars Nova),  Futurity (Soho Rep./Ars Nova), Lypsinka!, The Offending Gesture (The Tank), and Daniel Kitson’s A Show for Christmas. He is co-curator of Flint & Tinder, The Tank's flagship theater series: YOUARENOWHERE, Ada|Ava, Paper Hat Game. Josh has also worked as an assistant director at Baltimore CENTERSTAGE, Paper Mill Playhouse, NYMF, Virginia Stage, and as a writers assistant at Playwrights Horizons. He worked in the writer’s office of HBO’s The Wire, and is an alum of the Baltimore School for the Arts and Oberlin College.

Jonathan Levin

Jon Levin is Sinking Ship's co-Artistic Director. He is a director, performer & puppeteer. Recent directing credits include Cassandra: An Agony (J. Paul Getty Museum), The 7th Voyage of Egon Tichy (NYT Critics Pick), and Footnote for the End of Time, both with Theater In Quarantine (live-streamed from a closet on the Lower East Side). He co-created and performed A Hunger Artist at the Connelly Theatre for which he was nominated for two Drama Desk awards: Outstanding Solo Performance and Outstanding Puppet design, and was awarded Summerhall’s Lustrum Award for Excellence at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival. Additional SSP directing credits include Powerhouse at the New Ohio Theatre (NYTimes Critics Pick), Flatland, an EST/Sloan commission, Ocean at Mabou Mines Suite and There Will Come Soft Rains at FringeNYC (Excellence Award for Outstanding Direction). In addition to his work with the Sinking Ship Productions, Jon is also a founding member of the Krumple Theatre company, with which he has co-directed and performed work throughout Norway and in NYC since 2014. As puppeteer Jon has worked extensively with Wakka Wakka: SAGA, Animal R.I.O.T., & The Immortal Jellyfish Girl. Jon is a graduate of the École Internationale de Théâtre de Jacques Lecoq and holds a BA in theater and neuroscience from Oberlin College.