Evan Silver

About Evan

(updtead 6/2017) Raised in a vibrant arts environment in Chicago by a banjo-playing printmaker and an architect, Evan Silver developed a passion for creative storytelling from an early age. He graduated with honors from Brown University with a B.A. in Literary Arts and a focus in Writing for Performance. A theatre director and playwright, he also has experience in film, photography, printmaking, painting, drawing, graphic design, fiction, and poetry, all informing his practice as a theatre artist. His work explores themes of human constancy and variation across time and place, as well as tropes and archetypes drawn from ancient and modern mythologies ranging from Arabian folklore to apocalyptic cinema. Evan is also a musician and composer, and his music – a fusion of folk, jazz and pop styles – often plays an important role in his creative work. At Brown, he directed nine theatre productions and five films, many of which were original works with original music. In addition to Brown, Evan has trained at Drama Centre London, the Yale School of Drama, Steppenwolf Theatre Company, The Second City, and Lookingglass Theatre. He has observed and experienced a diversity of approaches to theatre-making which have deeply influenced his personal practice. He is currently based in  Bali, Indonesia on a Luce Scholarship, studying traditional Balinese masked dance, shadow puppetry, and gamelan music, and is an Artist in Residence at both  Rumah Sanur Creative Hub  and the  Bali Purnati Center for the Arts . When not making art, Evan is doing his best to experience the world with open eyes and a full heart. He loves meeting new people and is an avid traveler, mountaineer and wildlife photographer. Next year, he will pursue a postgraduate theatre degree at the Royal Central School of Speech and Drama in London on a two-year Marshall Scholarship.