Connor Lifson
Connor Lifson is a director, adapter, and designer of performance based in both Chicago and the Bay Area. As a theatre artist, Connor engages across disciplines and forms, drawing on cinematic vocabularies in his onstage work. His directing and adaptation work includes multi-media productions blending the stage and screen, site-specific, immersive experiences, and object-based performances — most recently an original abstract puppetry performance, BOOK OF DEW, which sold-out its run at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe (2024).Connor believes that we cannot make a world that we have yet to imagine, and it is the responsibility of the artist not to hold a mirror up to society, but a shimmering looking glass — not to reflect our world’s reality, but its fantastic potential. 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.Connor has assisted for Mary Zimmerman at Lookingglass Theatre and the Goodman, as well as for Jessica Thebus at Northlight Theatre. Among other independent projects, he’s directed for Witch Hunt Theatre in Portland, OR and for Tide & Foam at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe.Connor is currently pursuing his PhD in Theatre and Performance Studies at Stanford University.