Kyle Berlin

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Kyle Berlin works with interview-based documentary theater, writing, performance, and occasionally puppets to activate questions of collectivity in communities worldwide. He is a co-founder of Rhizome Theater Company, which creates live ethnographic performances about, by, and for specific places at critical junctures, with a focus on smaller communities and quieter voices.

Berlin has produced wide-ranging research, writing, and performance work about noticing compassion in institutions through the Hidden Chaplains initiative (featured in The New Yorker); deep listening and more-than-visual modes of perception across species lines with Bat Choir and Ferret Roulette in the UK; radical practices of attention at the Frye Art Museum in Seattle; the singer Caetano Veloso and the poet Elizabeth Bishop on a Fulbright arts grant in Brazil; Latin American-Irish solidarity movements as a Mitchell Scholar in Ireland; anti-immigrant sheriffs as a researcher for the American Civil Liberties Union; and the convergence of personal and political histories in post-dictatorship Argentina as the inaugural Novogratz Arts Fellowship recipient. Berlin has performed in national tours with the long-running radical political theater troupe Bread and Puppet and has been a resident artist at Brazier’s Park, the Watermill Center, the Eugene O’Neill Theater Center, and Mildred’s Lane. He is a 2018 graduate of the Program in Theater at Princeton.