About me
Travis Jeppesen is an American novelist and playwright based in Berlin. Together with his husband Wang Ping-Hsiang, he is co-artistic director of the theatre company k*hole karaoke, established in 2025. In 2023, his play Ghosts of the Landwehr Canal premiered at Berliner Ringtheater, under the direction of Wang Ping-Hsiang. Daddy, his first full-length play, premiered at HAU Theater, Berlin, in 2009, starring Vaginal Davis. His most recent novel, Settlers Landing, an 823-page satirical epic, was recently published by ITNA Press, alongside a twentieth anniversary re-issue of his first novel, Victims. Jeppesen is currently at work on an adaptation of Aristophanes’s The Clouds, and his first collection of short stories, For Those Who Hate a Little Bit of Everything, will be published by Schism in 2026.
SELECTED THEATRE WORKS
Ghosts of the Landwehr Canal
co-produced by TATWERK | Perfromative Forschung and Berliner Ringtheater
dir. Ping-Hsiang Wang
premiere on 02.04.2023
Daddy
co-produced by Hebbel-am-Ufer Theater
dir. Ron Athey; featuring Vaginal Davis
premiered in HAU, Berlin (2009)
The Clouds (after Aristophanes)
adaptation in progress
SELECTED PUBLICATIONS
For Those Who Hate a Little Bit of Everything
Schism, 2026 (forthcoming)
Settlers Landing
ITNA Press, 2023
Bad Writing
Sternberg/MIT Press, 2019 (Czech translation, 2023: Critical Edition, Prague)
See You Again in Pyongyang
Hachette US, 2018 (Korean translation, 2019: Medici Media, Seoul, South Korea; Russian translation, 2020: Piter Books, Moscow)
The Suiciders
Semiotext(e)/MIT Press, 2013
Other books in fiction/poetry/nonfiction (full list on request)
AWARDS & RESIDENCIES
International Writers and Translators Center
Rhodes, Greece, 2018
MMCA Seoul International Research Fellowship
2017
Rupert
Vilnius, Lithuania, 2016
Arts Writers Grant (Short-form Writing Category)
Andy Warhol Foundation, 2013