Morgan Bassichis

Bassichis was born in Newton, MA in 1983.^[2] Bassichis actively participated in theater growing up. Their parents were progressive social workers.^[3]

They inherited political zeal and musical taste from their mother.^[4] After graduating from college, they worked for ten years as an anti-prison activist and educator in San Francisco.^[5]

Bassichis is active in the anti-Zionist group Jewish Voice for Peace.^[6]

Performances

• Can I Be Frank? - La MaMa Experimental Theatre Club - Directed by Sam Pinkleton - (2024)
• A Crowded Field - Abrons Arts Center - (2023)
• Questions to Ask Beforehand - Bridget Donahue Gallery - Directed by Tina Satter - (2022)
• Don't Rain On My Bat Mitzvah - Creative Time - Rashid Johnson's Red Stage - Co-created with Ira Khonen Temple - (July 4, 2021)
• Nibbling the Hand That Feeds Me - 2019 Whitney Biennial - curated by Rujeko Hockley and Jane Panetta^[7]
• Klezmer for Beginners - Abrons Arts Center - Co-created with Ethan Philbrick - (2019)
• Damned If You Duet - The Kitchen - (2018)^[8]
• More Protest Songs! - Danspace Project - (2018)
• Me But Also Everybody (Part IV) - Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden - (2018)^[9]
• The Faggots & Their Friends Between Revolutions: The Musical - the New Museum - (2017)^[10]
• Senior Energy - Portland Institute for Contemporary Art - (2017)^[11]
• Me, But Also Everybody! (Part 1-III) - MoMA PS1 - (2015)^[12]

Grants, residencies, & awards

• Robert Rauschenberg Foundation - 2017 Resident^[13]
• Art Matters Foundation - 2015 Grantee^[14]
• Lower Manhattan Cultural Council - 2015 Process Space Artist^[15]

Writing

• The Odd Years (Wendy's Subway, 2020)^[16]
• Essay in the 2019 edition of The Faggots & Their Friends Between Revolutions (Nightboat Books)^[17]
• co-ed. Questions to Ask Before Your Bat Mitzvah (Wendy's Subway, 2023)^[18]

• Brewer Ball, Katherine (June 22, 2017). "Interview with Morgan Bassichis". BOMB magazine.