
Biography
Travis Amiel is a multidisciplinary artist based in Brooklyn, NY creating performances, websites, games, and animations. Tinkering with different mediums in performances and online, Travis is interested in queerness, pretentiousness, shame, convenience, and commons/cooperative-based organizing. With Cosimo Pori, Travis created Das Sofortvergnügen (THE INSTANT PLEASURE) which premiered at the 2023 Exponential Festival, and Das Ersatz which will premiere at The Brick in June 2024. From 2018-2020, Travis created 13 short performances each about something in the news that had happened in the week leading up to that night for Fast and Furious, a series at The Tank. Travis has worked with HowlRound Theatre Commons, was a 2019-2020 Performance Project Fellow at University Settlement, and studied contemporary performance at Emerson College.
Professional Experience
Creator/Performer, Das Ersatz, 2024, Brick Theater – Brooklyn, NY
Creator/Performer, Das Sofortvergnugen, 2023, Exponential Festival – Brooklyn, NY