jake.hooker@gmail.com 
Jake Hooker is a Ph.D. student in theatre at the CUNY Graduate Center and also makes performances as a director, writer, deviser and occasional performer. His scholarly work focuses on late-20th and 21st century dance, theater, performance, and new media artists and, in particular, in performance practice, rather than product(ion). Specifically, his dissertation work involves the transmission of artistic knowledge from New York’s premier experimental theater company, The Wooster Group, to five younger companies who have followed in their wake, and who helped shape the downtown theater landscape in the city during the 1990s and 2000s. In addition to his academic work, he maintains two distinct performance companies — the ensemble Grammar School which creates work collectively, and The Plastic Arts which focuses on more intimate visual art performances, lecture as performance, and performative video and installation works. In New York, his performance work has been seen at the Chocolate Factory, the Kitchen, HERE, La Mama, CATCH, Dixon Place, the Bushwick Starr, the Ontological-Hysteric Theater, and the Incubator Arts Project, among others. He has also shown his work in Berlin, Seattle, the U.K., and in a couple of very small towns here and there. He holds a BFA in Original Performance from Cornish College of the Arts and an MFA in Intercultural Performance from the Centre for Performance Research at the University of Wales. He has taught academic and practical theater courses at Cornish, Hunter College, the College of Staten Island, and Wagner College and is currently an adjunct lecturer at LaGuardia Community College. More information can be found at jakehookerand.org.
