Connor Lifson
Connor Lifson is a director, adapter, and designer of performance based in the San Francisco Bay Area. Through a blend of puppetry, live cinema, and other highly visual forms of storytelling, Connor’s work stages the impossible. Drawn to abstraction, fantasy, and image-driven performance, he creates theater that blurs the boundaries between stage and screen, object and performer, reality and imagination. He is a co-founder of Moon Dog.
Connor is a graduate of Northwestern University’s Performance Studies undergraduate program, where he learned to center his artistry, scholarship, and teaching in a blend of theory and practice.His work has been presented at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe, Lookingglass Theatre Company, the San Francisco International Arts Festival, and Witch Hunt Theatre.Connor has assisted for Mary Zimmerman at Lookingglass Theatre and the Goodman, as well as for Jessica Thebus at Northlight Theatre. Connor is currently pursuing his PhD in Theatre and Performance Studies at Stanford University.