David Herskovits

David Herskovits, founder and Artistic Director of Target Margin Theater, has directed dozens of plays, written for the New York Times and other publications, and taught at Harvard, Yale, and NYU. He began not in theater but as a classics scholar. His background informs a lot of his performance decisions – he’s adapted Plato for the stage, for example, and put on a little-known Marlowe play. His approach to directing is straightforward and engaged, and he often encourages his actors to improvise, uses unorthodox costumes, and experiments with background music and noise. He believes in theater that seeks to make us more aware of the world around us, not theater that teaches any specific lesson. We spoke with him in his office in Brooklyn.

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