bio

Iris McCloughan (they/them) is a director, performance maker, and writer, in New York City.

Recent direction includes restaging the Broadway production of the musical Lempicka in Seoul, South Korea, Sam Bell's Il Bunkerini (Clubbed Thumb's Winterworks), Alex Tatarsky’s Sad Boys in Harpy Land (Playwrights Horizons, Walker Art Center, REDCAT, MCA Chicago), and Joan Jonas & Eiko Otake's Drawing in Circles WHY? (Castelli Gallery/Danspace Project).

As a performance maker, they have collaborated with numerous other artists, including Eiko Otake, Joan Jonas, Alex Tatarsky, Mike Lala, Toby Altman, Julie Mayo, Jaime Maseda (as No Face Performance Group), Leslie Rogers, and Mel Krodman. Their performance work has been presented in New York City (AUNTS, JACK, Ars Nova, The Poetry Project), Philadelphia (The Barnes Foundation, Philadelphia Contemporary, ICA Philadelphia, FringeArts, Vox Populi), Detroit (Public Pool), and elsewhere.

McCloughan is a past winner of the Stanley Kunitz Memorial Prize from American Poetry Review. Their writing has been nominated for Best of the Net and the Pushcart Prize. They’ve been published in writing has appeared in Tupelo Quarterly, BOMB, jubilat, juked, Denver Quarterly, Gertrude, and many others. They are the author of three chapbooks, including Triptych (greying ghost, 2021) and Bones to Peaches (Seven Kitchens Press, 2022).

McCloughan has been awarded residencies through the Chocolate Factory Theater, Lower Manhattan Cultural Council, JACK/BEAM Center, ACRE, and the Downtown Brooklyn Alliance.

iris (dot) mccloughan (at) gmail (dot) com