Yvan Greenberg founded Laboratory Theater in 2001 and has directed the ensemble in eleven original pieces. His work has been presented in New York by The Performing Garage, Performance Space 122, HERE, CATCH Performance Series, The Brick Theater, Dixon Place, PRELUDE Festival, The Invisible Dog, chashama, and Movement Research, among others. Greenberg received a MacDowell Fellowship in 2006. In 2007, Laboratory Theater helped Dixon Place initiate and establish their on-going artist residency program.
In addition to his work with Laboratory Theater, Greenberg has collaborated with composer Eve Beglarian on The Sirens, or Pleasure as part of her RiverProject (Abrons Art Center, NYC, 2012), directed Una Corda, a solo performance-ritual written & performed by Austin-based artist kt shorb, (2010 at Blue Theater in Austin TX), and Murphy, an experimental music-theater piece by composer Corey Dargel and playwright Honor Molloy, (awarded New Dramatists’ 2007 Frederick Loewe Award in Musical Theater.) Greenberg has choreographed two other pieces by Dargel, Thirteen Near-Death Experiences (Performance Space 122, NYC, 2009), and Removable Parts (HERE, NYC, 2008), directed by Emma Griffin.
