“[Levin] holds the audience in the palm of his hand”
JON LEVIN is a Brooklyn-based director, performer, puppeteer and Co-Artistic Director of Sinking Ship Productions. Recent directing/co-creation credits include Cassandra: An Agony at the J. Paul Getty Museum (2022), and The 7th Voyage of Egon Tichy (with Theater in Quarantine) 2024 at Field Hall, WA (live version), and upcoming at New York Theater Workshop in 2025. Jon performed and co-created Kafka’s A Hunger Artist for which he was Nominated for two Drama Desk Awards including Outstanding Solo Performance and Outstanding Puppet Design at the Connelly Theatre and at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival (Lustrum Award for Excellence, Summerhall). Directing credits include Powerhouse at the New Ohio Theatre (NYTimes Critics Pick) in 2014, and There Will Come Soft Rains at FringeNYC (Excellence Award for Outstanding Direction). Jon is also a founding member of the the Krumple Theatre Company, based in Oslo, Norway, with whom he continues to create and perform throughout Norway and beyond. Jon is a graduate of the École Internationale de Théâtre de Jacques Lecoq and holds a BA in theater and neuroscience from Oberlin College.
Upcoming:
Presented by New York Theatre Workshop and the Lucille Lortel Theatre
A Sinking Ship and Theater in Quarantine production
In partnership with Under the Radar
January 4-26th, 2025 at New York Theatre Workshop, NYC
Virtuosic! Some of the new medium’s most imaginative work.”
—Jesse Green, The New York Times [Critics Pick]
“Truly impossible, impressive… The 7th Voyage makes confinement a virtue, a prompt to imagination.”
—Helen Shaw, New York Magazine
Trapped in a time loop, space traveler Egon Tichy faces his own worst enemy: himself. And he’s multiplying. In this inventive fusion of live performance and digital sleight-of-hand, a single performer builds a cinematic sci-fi comedy in real time, transforming an 8’x4′ white box into a cosmic madhouse. The acclaimed physical theater company Sinking Ship and the Obie Award-winning Theater in Quarantine have reimagined their “virtuosic” (Jesse Green, NYT Critic’s Pick) early pandemic streaming hit The 7th Voyage of Egon Tichy as a mind-bending in-person experience—a slapstick adventure and poignant meditation on the tug-of-war between the versions of ourselves we can never escape.
This new staging is a reinvention of the original: rewritten, expanded, and reconceived as a unique in-person theatrical experience.
The 7th Voyage of Egon Tichy [redux] contains mild adult language and situations but is appropriate for audiences of all ages.
Co-created by:
Director Jonathan Levin
Playwright Josh Luxenberg
Performer Joshua William Gelb
Based on the story by Stanislaw Lem
In Development:
The Fritz Haber Project
A theatrical adaptation about the life and work of Fritz Haber, Jewish-born, German Nobel prize winning chemist. Haber's work with nitrogen fixation allowed for the creation of synthetic fertilizer, which to this day enables the production of crops that feed two thirds of the world's population. He is also known as the father of chemical warfare: he introduced the use of chlorine gas during World War One, fighting on the side of the Germans. Like many Jews at the time, Haber deeply wanted to be accepted as German, which fueled his desire to help the Germans win the war, and blinded him to the cruelty he was unleashing upon the world. The piece will explore the question of what it means to put an idea into the world, which like a gas, once released can never be put back.
In development with support from the Asylum Arts and The Schusterman Foundation.
The Magic Theater Project
An intimate, immersive performance designed for a single audience member.
The piece blends puppetry, magic, clowning, and audience interaction, making each performance is unique. Set within a dreamlike, surreal theatrical space, each viewer will encounter personal elements from their own life woven into the experience. We will draw inspiration from the “Magic Theater” in Herman Hesse’s Steppenwolf, the “séance of black magic” in Bulgakov’s The Master and Margarita, and David Lynch’s “Club Silencio”.
In development with the support of Figure Theater in Norway in June 2025.