Brooklyn-based Saskia Lane is a Juilliard-trained bassist, composer, performer, puppet maker and educator whose work spans many genres. Currently Saskia appears each summer at the Salzburg Festival in the celebrated annual production of Jedermann and this year she will continue to tour her show, BIRDHEART, co-created with director/designer Julian Crouch. The show continues to tour internationally, with performances taking place in Bilbao next June. She had the honor of performing the piece for the Dalai Lama in Belgium. Since 2010, Saskia has been a member of the noted theater company, Checkov at Lake Lucille, as performer and composer, which recently released a feature film of The Seagull, titled Anton’s Week, currently showing in theaters across Europe and the States. Saskia worked for several years with the British-based Improbable Theatre Company on The Devil and Mister Punch, which toured internationally. Her work has received residencies at The New Victory Theater, BRIC, Park Avenue Armory, Watermill and St. Ann’s Puppet Lab. A classically-trained musician with a strong grounding in jazz, Saskia tours with her own much-lauded jazz pop trio The Lascivious Biddies, the raucous klezmer group The Isle of Klezbos, and up-and-coming young artist Lila Blue. She has shared the stage with a wide variety of artists, from Jay-Z and Beyonce to Marc Ribot and the Kronos Quartet. Last fall Saskia had the pleasure of recording with Harry Belafonte, alongside singers John Legend and Sting. Saskia’s original compositions have been commissioned for several productions, including José Rivera’s Massacre, the Asolo Repertory Theater’s staging of Macbeth, and Lake Lucille’s renditions of Ivanov and The Seagull. For the last three years she has composed and directed operas for babies, OTOYOTOY and NOOMA, both of which premiered at Carnegie Hall. Her third commission of the sort, CAMILLE’S RAINBOW, will premier in the fall of 2022.
