John Collins

John Collins is the director and founder Elevator Repair Service Theater (ERS), one of New York’s most highly-acclaimed experimental theater companies.  The group’s theater pieces are built around a broad range of subject matter and literary forms. They combine elements of slapstick comedy, hi-tech and lo-tech design, both literary and found text, and the group’s own highly developed style of choreography.  Among many other honors, John is the recipient of a 2010 Guggenheim Fellowship in Drama and Performance Art, and in 2011 received the Lucile Lortel Award for Outstanding Director and the Elliot Norton Award for Outstanding Director.  http://elevator.org/