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DAVID HERSKOVITS.

Award-winning director and Founding Artistic Director of Target Margin Theater 

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ARTIST BIOGRAPHY.

David Herskovits is the Founding Artistic Director of Target Margin Theater. He has directed a broad range of work, classics and neglected older work, new opera and music-theater, and adaptations of history and literature, for TMT and other theaters, festivals, and universities all over, including The Spoleto Festival USA, Theatre for A New Audience, Lincoln Center Festival, The Bonn Biennale, The Kitchen, Mass MoCA, and many others. His Target Margin works have won multiple OBIEs and been presented nationally and internationally. David has taught and lectured at The Mahindra Humanities Center and The Mellon School of Theater and Performance Research at Harvard, Yale, Williams, Wesleyan, The University of Nebraska, The School of Visual Art in Jerusalem, Juilliard, and other Universities and drama schools. He has written for The New York Times, American Theatre, Theatre Magazine, and Performing Arts Journal, among others. 

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ARTIST INTERVIEW.

Interview released on January 26, 2026.

"I love art that makes us reengage with the world—a world that we know and that is also rich and strange. Both at once. So to some degree, the experience is mysterious:  “I don’t know what it is. I can’t fathom it fully.” And yet at the same time, it’s not mysterious: “I get it. I can follow the story. I am entertained by it.” And those two things working at the same time, to me, is heaven."| Artist Website.

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It's hard not to be moved by what does emerge from this kaleidoscopic presentation.And that’s a

TRUE PASSION

for the history and variety of theater, and an awareness of that art form’s

GLITTERING EVANESCENCE 

NEW YORK TIMES

GALLERY.

Discover photos and videos from David's work.

CREDITS: Remember This Trick (2024), by Justin J Wee ; Magic in Plain Sight  (2020) by Maria Baranova ; Dinner Party (2007), by Hilary McHone ;  Pericles (2023), by Richard Termine ; Mamba's Daughters 2 (1998), by Jamey O'Quinn ; One Night 2 (2022), by Andrew Young ; The Tempest (2011) by Hunter Canning ; Pericles 2 (2023), by Richard Termine ; Second Language (2011), by Sue Kessler  

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