Sebastienne Mundheim
Sebastienne Mundheim (lead artist: writer, designer, performer, workshop leader) is a performance maker, installation artist, and educator with more than thirty years of experience in interdisciplinary arts and arts education. Her work integrates visual installation, puppetry, storytelling, dance, and theatre. In addition to making her own work, Mundheim is a thought partner and consultant for numerous other artists and arts organizations.
Mundheim/White Box Theatre have been commissioned and presented by national and international institutions, including Rosenbach Museum and Library, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia Museum of Art, Barnes Foundation, Philadelphia Live Arts Festival, Philadelphia International Festival of the Arts, Kimmel Center for Performing Arts, Arden Theatre, Theatre Exile, PA Ballet, Franklin and Marshall College, Keene State University, Vermont Performance Lab, Marlboro College, Massachusetts Museum of Contemporary Arts, and Irish Ministry of Arts and Culture.
Collaborators have included Whit McLaughlin, New Paradise Laboratories; Kate Watson-Wallace, Anonymous Bodies; Thaddeus Phillips, Lucidity Suitcase; Hua-Hua Zhang and Kun Yang Lin, Kun Yang Lin Dance; Tania Isaac Dance; Brian Sanders JUNK; and Ballet X. Her work has received support from the Dolfinger McMahon Foundation, Lenfest Foundation, New England Foundation for the Arts, The Pew Charitable Trusts, Philadelphia Theatre Initiative and Dance Advance, Pennsylvania Performing Artists on Tour, the Philadelphia Cultural Fund, Trust for Mutual Understanding, and numerous commissioning organizations.
In 2017, Mundheim received national recognition from the Kennedy Center for the Arts College Theatre Festival for Distinguished Achievement in Puppetry Design and Direction and Distinguished Achievement in Overall Production. In 2014, she won Barrymores (Philadelphia’s Excellence in Theatre Award) for Outstanding Design and for Best Ensemble for her adaptation of A Child’s Christmas in Wales. In 2013, she received an Independence Foundation Fellowship for Writing. In 2011, she was a finalist for the Pew Fellowship in the Arts. She received her BA/BFA from UPenn 1990 and her EdM from Harvard in 2000.
