Caden Manson

Director, Theatre Program

on leave Spring 26

BA, University of Texas-Austin. MFA, Transart Institute for Creative Research, Liverpool John Moores University. A performance maker (Big Art Group), curator (Contemporary Performance and Special Effects Festival), and educator (SLCTheatre), Manson’s performance work—through the company Big Art Group—creates radical queer narrative structures and embodiments to construct and aid transitory generative critical space for both participants and audience. Their work is dense, fast, and multilayered and traverses multiple genres and forms, often using interference, slippage, and disruption strategies. Manson’s work has been presented throughout 14 countries and more than 50 cities in Europe, Asia, and North America. Their work has been co-produced by the Vienna Festival, Festival d’Automne a Paris, Hebbel Am Ufer in Berlin, Rome’s La Vie de Festival, PS 122 in New York, and Wexner Center for The Arts in Ohio. Manson is a Foundation for Contemporary Arts fellow, Pew fellow, and a MacDowell fellow. Their writing, with Jemma Nelson, can be found in the publications PAJ, Theatre Magazine, Theatre der Zeit, and Theatre Journal. SLC, 2019–

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