Arthur Yorinks

Who is Arthur Yorinks?

Arthur Yorinks has written and directed for opera, theater, dance, film, and radio and is the author of over thirty-five acclaimed and award-winning books, including "Hey, Al," a children's book which earned the Caldecott Medal in 1987.

After veering off his path of becoming a classical pianist in his teens Yorinks has spent over four decades as an author as well as working in the performing arts, writing and directing numerous plays including So, Sue Me which premiered at The Kennedy Center and It's Alive, premiering at the Tribeca Performing Arts Center in New York. Yorinks was Philip Glass’s librettist for the operas The Juniper Tree and The Fall of the House of Usher, both of which have been performed all over the world.

Compelled by the use of sound in the theater, Yorinks has, for almost twenty years, experimented with the relationship between audio and live performance. In 2002 he formalized that passion into a company devoted to exploring, evolving, and redefining audio theater.