Tim Barsky

Tim Barsky is a graduate of Brown University with a degree in Islamic & Judaic religious studies who has also studied at the Berklee School of Music, and with the renowned Chassidic folklorist and archivist Fishel Bresler. He has worked as a producer for the Providence Black Repertory Company , as a fire juggler in Dublin Ireland, a street outreach worker & emergency youth advocate for the state health departments of Rhode Island and California, and as a flute-beatboxer with over a dozen b-boy/b-girl (breakdancing) crews including Ground FX, Fillmore Rocks, & Sisterz of the Underground. A musician-composer and playwright-performer, he was recently awarded a $50,000 Gerbode Emerging Playwright's Grant for TRACK IN A BOX , a hip-hop and circus based play about junkie cops, strippers & giant puppets which is set to premiere in Fall 2009. Best known (if at all) as the force behind bay area underground theatrical hit T he Bright River- a mass transit tour of the afterlife , he is hopefully not known at all as an anarchist soundsytem organizer for riots. A former line-producer for the Burning Man Arts Festival , & a member of the Hybrid Project at SF's Intersection for the Arts , he has also been a guest artist and lecturer at the Royal College of Art (London), Stanford University, RISD, & Oberlin College , a featured speaker at The American Press Institute , and a beatboxing instructor in SF juvenile detention facilities. Currently he is artistic director of City Circus , the lead artist for EveryDay Theatre (EDT) , a co-founder of Vowel Movement Beatboxer s , & artist-in-residence at San Francico' s Climate Theater.
For more particulars: http://timbarsky.com/
http://www.myspace.com/thevowelmovement , or http://everydaytheatre.org/