I Speak, Therefore I Am (A.R.T. Institute)

John Tiffany is the multiple award-winning director of Black Watch, created at the the National Theatre of Scotland, where he has been the Associate Director since its inception in 2006.  The National Theatre of Scotland is a groundbreaking model for a national theater company in that it has no building of its own. Instead, it creates and tours work all over Scotland and internationally, often performing in unusual and challenging environments. Tiffany leads the artistic development team, responsible for commissioning and developing new projects for the company.  Black Watch (played in a return engagement at St. Anne's Warehouse in Brooklyn, NY April/May 2011) has won four Laurence Olivier Awards, an Edinburgh Festival Fringe First Award, a Critics’ Circle Theatre Award, a Herald Angel Award and a South Bank Show Award.  His other directing work for the National Theatre of Scotland includes The Bacchae, Be Near Me, The House of Bernarda Alba and Peter Pan.  Tiffany has also won Edinburgh Festival Fringe First Awards for Gagarin Way and Perfect Days, and a Herald Angel Award for The Straits. He earned a master’s in theater and classics from the University of Glasgow, and is currently a 2010/11 Radcliffe Fellow in Theater.