Belgrade Art Studio is delighted to welcome Michael Landes, a writer from USA.

He graduated from New York University College of Arts and Sciences, Dramatic Literature and Philosophy.
Also, he attended Sorbonne University Theatre Summer School, Paris, France

His serious theatrical practice began in 2015 as he started engaging with major 20th-century absurdist and European playwrights, particularly Ionesco and Beckett. In 2017 he developed an academic interest in Chekhov and used his “Seagull” as a model for his own adaptation of Hamlet, “Ghosts Aren’t Real” performed in an early version at a staged reading at La Mama in January 2018. Set in suburban America with a five-person cast, the play is a bleak comedy about a dysfunctional family in which pop culture and political anxieties became the locus of the play.

Recently Landes have begun an engagement with ecotheory and ecotheater, drawing on thinkers like Donna Haraway, Una Chaudhuri, Anna Tsing and Jane Bennett, and subject-object ontology, leading him to Julie Kristeva and Fred Moten. These philosophies deeply influence the content of his newer work.

His current project, outlined in depth below, involves an international scope and draws on many theatrical and mythic traditions. To access these other traditions, he interacts with international sources in international locations rather than remaining isolated in his corner of the world.