Dave Crellin

Dave Crellin, MA., is a director, performer, writer, scholar, educator, and interdisciplinary artist, working primarily in live, performative media. He has created art for over 25 years throughout most of North America and Western Europe, his practice ranging from collaboration with theatre artists, filmmakers, musicians, dancers, circus and cabaret performers to authors, fine artists, sculptures, community leaders and creatives of all ages. He was the co-founder and a principal performer in the legendary, underground performance troupe, Circus Contraption.

His research and creative areas of interest include immersive, devised, documentary and site-specific performance, circus and cabaret, liminality, rhizomatic pedagogy, Deleuzian studies and art as social practice. Dave holds a MA. in Theatre and will complete his MFA in DANM Future Stages in June 2022. His MFA thesis project is interdisciplinary, immersive installation entitled “Troubled Waters: The Ocean as Contested Space in Southern California Surf Culture.”