Graduate Student
Trevor SIlverstein is a film-/theatre-maker and an MA/PhD student in Theater, Dance and Performance Studies. His work as an artist, educator and researcher focuses on embodied comedy performance and improvisation.
He received a BFA in Film/TV Production from New York University and, based in Germany from 2015-2024, performed and taught improv and sketch comedy at Comedy Café Berlin and Catalyst Institute for Creative Arts and Technologies. As an improviser, he has performed on festival stages from New York, Barcelona, Reykjavik, St. Petersburg and Das Improv Festival, of which he is part of the programming team and is a founding member of the non-profit Das Improv Collective e.V.
Recent work as a performer and director at UCSB includes directing Icarus's Mother by Sam Shepard (UCSB Grad-directed One Acts), Assistant Director for Strange Birds by E.M. Lewis (UCSB Launch Pad; dir: Risa Brainin), playing "Death" in Nobody Cares About Death by Ian Hodges (ENOUGH! Plays Project) and "Liam/Gio/MFA Design" in Masters of Fine Arts by A. Rey Pamatmat (UCSB Launch Pad Amplify Reading Series 2025).