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Yannick Trapman-O'Brien
Studio Manager and Engagement Strategist
Monument Lab

Yannick Trapman-O’Brien is a Performer, Theatermaker, and Creative Hand for Hire. He has a long history of helping institutions craft engagements and thoughtful processes and helping creative teams build capacity, and has done so for Monument Lab in many forms since 2017.

Outside of his work for the Lab, his practice centers on exploring the exchanges and spaces we are willing to make with strangers, and seeking unorthodox applications for performance. People pay him to act, which he has done in Shakespeare, devised work, performance actions and immersive works, as well as amphitheaters, basements, historical mansions, forests and one time on a bike.

Past credits include The Walnut Street Theater, Theater Mitu, Witness Relocation, the Interactive Playlab, The American Czech Theater, New Light Theater, and performances at the Franklin Institute, Morris Jumel and the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museums. He is an alumni of NYU Abu Dhabi (Theater, BA) and an ongoing collaborator with, Al-Bustan, Guerilla Science and NYU Open Arts.

He is also the creator of The Telelibrary, a critically acclaimed telephone performance for audiences of one.

Occasionally, he sleeps.

More details can be found at his website.