Biography

Faye Driscoll is an award winning art and performance maker hailed as a “startlingly original talent” by The New York Times and “a post-millennium postmodern wild woman” by The Village Voice. She  uses an alchemy of bodies, voices, objects and live sound to conjure worlds that are, like ourselves, alive and forever changeable. Through immersive, sensorial tableaux and perceptual disorientations, she aims to rile up the passive, numb, screened-out body. She was the 2021–2022 Randjelovic/Stryker Resident Commissioned Artist at New York Live Arts and is the recipient of numerous honors, including a Doris Duke Award, Guggenheim Fellowship, Bessie Award, and the Jacob’s Pillow Artist Award. In 2023, she received an Obie Award, followed by the Grand Prix at the 2024 Prix de la Danse de Montréal for her performance-installation Weathering. Driscoll is currently developing a commission with Cullberg, premiering in September 2026, alongside a new project titled DESIRE SCORE (working title). 

Her work has been presented at leading cultural institutions and festivals worldwide, including the Walker Art Center, Wexner Center for the Arts, REDCAT, ICA Boston, MCA Chicago, Jacob's Pillow, Brooklyn Academy of Music (BAM), Kunstenfestivaldesarts, La Biennale di Venezia, Festival d’Automne à Paris, Melbourne Festival, Belfast International Arts Festival, Onassis Cultural Centre (Athens), Centro de Arte Experimental (Buenos Aires), Festival Dias da Dança (Porto), Festival TransAmériques (Montreal), Athens Epidaurus Festival, Julidans (Amsterdam), and the Meteorite Autumn Festival (Tokyo). She believes live art is radical and necessary in this over-mediated time.

Awards

2026 Bessie Award Nomination, Outstanding Ensemble, Weathering
2024 GRAND PRIX de la danse de Montreal, Weathering
2023 Obie Award, Direction, Weathering
2022 Ellis-Beauregard Contemporary Dance Award
2021 Randjelovic/Stryker Resident Commissioned Artist at New York Live Arts
2020/24 MidAtlantic Arts International Award
2019 Performing Arts Residency Lab (PeARL) at Montclair State University
2018 Jacob’s Pillow Dance Award
2016 Doris Duke Artist Award
2016 United States Artist Fellowship
2015 MAP Fund Award
2014 FUSED/French US Exchange in Dance Award 
2014 National Dance Project Production Award
2013 Guggenheim Fellowship
2013 Creative Capital Award
2013 Foundation for Contemporary Arts Artist Award
2012 The Jerome Foundation Award
2010 National Dance Project Production Award
2009 Bessie Award, Outstanding Production