David Bassuk, M.F.A.

Professor of Theatre Arts
Acting Program
Conservatory of Theatre Arts & Film

Office: Dance Bldg., Rm. 1031
Tel.: (914) 251-6837
Fax: (914) 251-6839
Email: david.bassuk@purchase.edu

David Bassuk’s directing credits include the world premiere of the musical Cat’s Cradle by Kurt Vonnegut, Chaim Potok’s Off Broadway The Chosen, and American Camera at Lincoln Center. He directed and produced the first plays written by Nadine Gordimer and Richard Sennett; Chaim Potok’s Out of the Depths; and premiere adaptations of William Faulkner’s The Sound and The Fury and Jack Kerouac’s Visions of Cody. Bassuk has served on the artistic staffs of Lincoln Center Theater and American Place Theatre and as artistic director of Novel Stages, Ark Theatre Company, and the Arcadia Shakespeare Festival.

Education
B.A., Purchase College
M.F.A., Southern Methodist University

Selected Awards and Fellowships
Bob Hope Award
Augur Meadows Fellowship.