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On 26 January 2026, TORCHES continues with a conversation with award-winning director and founding artistic director of Target Margin Theater (TMT), David Herskovits.
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 TMT 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, Theater Magazine, and Performing Arts Journal, among others.
TORCHES: 30+ Years of Downtown Performance
As co-founder of HERE Arts Center—described by the Obie committee as “a lasting home for the weird and wild in downtown performance”—Kristin Marting spent the past three decades immersed in making, witnessing, and supporting groundbreaking performance in New York City. TORCHES is a much needed exploration of New York City’s unique and influential downtown performance world from the 1990s through the 2020s. Part memoir, part oral history, and part cultural inquiry, TORCHES offers in-depth video conversations with more than thirty of the most imaginative and boundary pushing artists working in the field today. TORCHES is both a living archive and an offering for the future. Learning about these artists and their work is not just looking back; it can ignite what’s coming next. They are not only inventors of form—they are keepers of community, fire-starters for our future. See more about the project on the TORCHES website at torchesnyc.org.
On 26 January 2026, TORCHES continues with a conversation with award-winning director and founding artistic director of Target Margin Theater (TMT), David Herskovits.
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 TMT 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, Theater Magazine, and Performing Arts Journal, among others.
TORCHES: 30+ Years of Downtown Performance
As co-founder of HERE Arts Center—described by the Obie committee as “a lasting home for the weird and wild in downtown performance”—Kristin Marting spent the past three decades immersed in making, witnessing, and supporting groundbreaking performance in New York City. TORCHES is a much needed exploration of New York City’s unique and influential downtown performance world from the 1990s through the 2020s. Part memoir, part oral history, and part cultural inquiry, TORCHES offers in-depth video conversations with more than thirty of the most imaginative and boundary pushing artists working in the field today. TORCHES is both a living archive and an offering for the future. Learning about these artists and their work is not just looking back; it can ignite what’s coming next. They are not only inventors of form—they are keepers of community, fire-starters for our future. See more about the project on the TORCHES website at torchesnyc.org.
