April 2-12
May 27-30
June 20-24

Letter of Intent

a new play by

John Jesurun

with:

Asta Hansen has worked with John Jesurun for over three decades as Svetlana in “Chang in a Void Moon”. She played Vivieca in John’s web serial “Shadowland”, was a guest artist in his “Stopped Bridge of Dreams”, and appeared in numerous readings of John’s work. Asta has worked in theatre, film, television and voice over in New York, Los Angeles and abroad. Selected credits: Happy Days, Comedy of Errors, House of Yes. TV/Film: Person of Interest, Helter Skelter. Video: Red Dead Redemptionn II, Red Dead Online.
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Claire Buckingham has appeared in works by John Jesurun at La MaMa E.T.C., Dance Theatre Workshop, Incubator Arts Project, and Judson Memorial Church. Film appearances include works by John Jesurun, Sue de Beer, Xavier Cha, and also one Lifetime movie. Writer and narrator of the upcoming podcast The Resurrection Tapes.
BFA, NYU Experimental Theatre Wing
Benjamin Forster is a New York-based writer and performer. He is a graduate of NYU’s Experimental Theater Wing, and is grateful to have worked with a variety of inspiring directors, including John Jesurun, Richard Foreman, Abigail Browde and Brooke O'Harra. Theater credits include Liz One, Firefall, Astronome and Blue Man Group.
Dan Kuan Peeples is an actor based in New York City. He is a company member of Brouhaha, and has performed with Brooke O’Harra, Jeff Weiss, John Jesurun, and Yoshiko Chuma and the School of Hard Knocks, among others.
MSc, MA, originally trained as a Dutch performing artist, works as an integral coach, trainer, and counsellor from her office in Amsterdam as an independent professional. Her work is based on an integration of Buddhism, Western psychology, neurobiology, Systems Thinking and Spiritual Ecology. Since 2010 she is a lead tutor and supervisor for the Mindfulness Association (MA) and delivers trainings, retreats and teaching skills trajectories in the UK and Europe. She was for 5 years an Honorary Teaching Fellow at the University of Aberdeen on the Master Studies in Mindfulness (MSc). Her work as mindfulness, compassion and insight trainer is deeply influenced by her practice and study of Tibetan Buddhism (Mahamudra) for the last 35 years.As co-founder of Spiritual Ecology Netherlands (www.spiritualecology.nl), a non-profit organization, she offers workshops, trainings and retreats in-person and online in Europe. She is also a facilitator of the Work that Reconnects since 2019.
Performing artist, visual dramaturg and curator in Germany

Letter of Intent, written, directed and designed by John Jesurun
Staged in an intimate apartment setting. Jesurun’s cast navigates the clandestine personas of four operatives working from the confines of an anonymous West Village maisonette. They negotiate a verbal and perceptual minefield of enciphered meanings and interpretations that leave them implicated in the dismantling of their own actuality.

“Jesurun’s writing is full of nooks and crannies: words spill out, double over themselves, and find the logic in their illogic.” -Billy McEntee, Brooklyn Rail, April 2025 (full review)

John Jesurun’s verbal images pile on each other, cancel each other, are gorgeously evocative, terrifyingly direct, disgustingly familiar, apocalyptic. In his language all is possible (yes, you CAN say that.) As in Whitewater, language makes itself come true. For me John is a great poet among modern playwrights. But, acting-wise, the language is never milked (anyway there isn’t time). It abhors assumption, it has the best insults ever. - Fiona Templeton, January 2009

John Jesurun is a media artist, writer and director based in New York. His presentations integrate elements of language, architectural space and media. His exploded narratives cover a wide range of themes and explore the relation of form to content. They challenge the experience of verbal, visual and intangible perceptions. His work is distinguished by his integrated creation of the text, direction, set and media design.