Spencer Byham-Carson is a Pittsburgh-based Theatre and Visual Artist with over half a decade of experience in the educational and professional arts. His work breaches a range of concepts, from exploration of gendered politics to 20th and 21st century absurdist writing. He is fascinated by how binaries fail to capture the complexities of modern life, and investigates how they can be revealed within a post-internet culture.

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In the Spring of 2024, Spencer directed a production of Enda Walsh's Penelope at Carnegie Mellon University as his capstone project for the John Well's Directing Program. 

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Spencer is currently working on three projects which explore the perspectives of men who feel misaligned with modern life, both critiquing while empathizing with their expressions of frustration. His upcoming play Leg Lengthening, which he is writing and directing for the Playground Theatre Festival, explores how these men take solace in niche online communities to assuage their body insecurity, through the internet trend of “Looksmaxxing”.

 

After graduation, Spencer will be directing two of Gertrude Stein’s plays concurrently with his close collaborator Pria Dahiya, through History Matter’s Sallie Bingham Production Grant. This production will inaugurate the New Product Company, a Pittsburgh-based experimental theater company focusing on work exploring post-digital culture and boundary-pushing new work from the perspective of an internet-addled generation.