About David Eden Productions

About David Eden Productions

The Maly Drama Theatre in Gaudeamus, Lev Dodin's stage adaptation inspired
by Sergei Kaledin's story, Construction Battalion (Photo: V.I. Vassiliev)  

David Eden Productions, Ltd. has been one of the leading American organizations devoted to producing international work for over 25 years. Most recently, David Eden Productions has produced US tours of Gate Theatre Dublin's Endgame/Watt and Krapp's Last Tape (2011), and Galway's Druid in productions of The Cripple of Inishmaan (five month tour in 2011), The Walworth Farce (2009), and DruidSynge: The Shadow of the Glen and The Playboy of the Western World (2008). In 2012, David Eden Productions has been active with a US tour of Batsheva Dance Company, the BAM presentation of the Maly Drama Theatre’s Three Sisters, and for the autumn, premiere US tours for Georgia’s folkmusic Ensemble Basiani, Théâtre de la Ville’s production of Ionesco’s Rhinoceros, and an exclusive West Coast engagement for Gate Theatre Dublin's production of Krapp's Last Tape, starring John Hurt, at Center Theatre Group's Kirk Douglas Theatre.

Other recent tours include Maly Drama Theatre's Uncle Vanya (2010), Gate Theatre Dublin’s Waiting for Godot (2006), Declan Donnellan’s Twelfth Night (2006), Propeller’s The Winter’s Tale (2005), Piccolo Teatro di Milano’s Arlecchino (2005), the Russian Patriarchate Choir of Moscow (2007), the State Ballet of Georgia with the legendary Bolshoi prima ballerina Nina Ananiashvili (2007, 2008, 2009), and the Batsheva Dance Company (1998, 2004, 2009). In 2004, David Eden curated Lincoln Center Festival’s Ashton Celebration, a two-week centennial retrospective at the Metropolitan Opera House celebrating master choreographer Sir Frederick Ashton.

Past highlights include the twelve-city premiere tour of Rezo Gabriadze’s Forbidden Christmas or The Doctor and The Patient, starring Mikhail Baryshnikov (2004); tours of London’s Royal Court Theatre in Sarah Kane’s 4.48 Psychosis (2004); Declan Donnellan's staging of Boris Godunov (2003); the St. Petersburg State Academic Capella (2003); the Bolshoi Ballet (2000 & 2002); Gate Theatre Dublin’s "Beckett Festival" (2000); and American premiere presentations of Rezo Gabriadze’s The Battle of Stalingrad (2000) and Autumn of My Springtime (2002).

For the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts, David Eden Productions has mounted festival programs including, Arts of the United Kingdom (2001), Island: Arts from Ireland (2000) and Art of the State: Israel at 50 (1998). David Eden Productions has also been responsible for the US presentations of the Maly Drama Theatre’s landmark productions, Gaudeamus (BAM Next Wave Festival/US Tour, 1994) and Brothers and Sisters (Lincoln Center Festival, 2000); and exclusive American engagements at the Kennedy Center of A Hotel Room in the Town of NN, adapted from Gogol’s Dead Souls by Valery Fokin of Moscow’s Meyerhold Arts Centre (1999), and the Théâtre Nanterre Amandiers production of Marivaux’s The Game of Love and Chance (1999). Notable projects presented at  BAM include  the Kirov Ballet/Vaganova Ballet Academy Project (1998) and the touring “Russian Village Festival” of folk arts (1990, 1991, 1995 & 1997).

David Eden Productions is also actively engaged with an expansive network of arts festivals, presenting venues, government and consular bodies, and cultural promoters—as well as producing companies—around the world. These relationships have been strengthened through organized overseas visits for delegations of arts professionals and successful presentations of significant work in theater and dance. In this manner, David Eden Productions remains dedicated to strengthening cultural exchange and instigating new opportunities both in the US and abroad.

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