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YAEL HASKAL
about
Yael Haskal is a writer and performer based in New York/Berlin. She is an ensemble member of the New York Neo-Futurists and La MaMa's Great Jones Repertory Company. She has worked with the Living Theatre, Untitled Theater Company No. 61, and Yoshiko Chuma’s School of Hard Knocks.
Grounded in philosophies of exchange and ritual, she creates original performance art that intersects morbidity and whimsy. Her practice includes poetry, video art, and puppetry.
Yael's plays have been performed at theatres across the U.S., including La MaMa, The Tank, IRT, Echo Theater, and the Ivoryton Playhouse. As an actor, she performs internationally with Great Jones Rep and the New York Neo-Futurists, and was nominated for a 2023 Broadway World Award.
She is a graduate of Vassar College (B.A., Drama & English) and arthaus.berlin (M.A., Devised Theatre).
manifesto
I’ve heard it said:
a fish may love a bird, but where would they live?
It is the artists' work to refract reality
To bite truth and chew with mouth open
To shout into the void till the void shouts back
We must till the ordinary for seeds of the extraordinary
run clockwise from the couldhaves and shouldhaves
and towards the great experiment of the intimate
Let’s forget proverbs,
sit shiva with strangers and share our snacks,
A fish may love a bird and we must find a place for them to live!
What is actionable may not be actual, and trice trersa,
so take it all with salt
and sugar
And let the artists set the table,
so when the food finally rains down from the sky,
we may all sit together
and eat.
people Also say
"Yael Haskal is charmingly neurotic."
– Nightmare on Film Street
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