Artist · Designer · Theater Maker
Making things that matter — on stage, on the page, and in the space between imagination and form.
Theater & Performance
Over thirty years creating, directing, and performing — from ensemble physical theater to classical text, from clown to tragedy. Theater as a place where the psyche becomes visible.
Director · Creator
An original devised work exploring movement, space, and the body in dialogue with itself.
Performer · Twelfth Night
Shakespeare's wise fool — the one who tells the truth by pretending not to.
Performer · UMO Ensemble
Physical theater pushing the edges of form, character, and collective presence.
Director · Youth Production
Young performers inhabiting the forest of Arden — imagination fully unleashed.
Performer · Original Work
The body as text. The voice as proof. A meditation on dissolution and will.
Visual Art & Design
Sculpture, design, and image-making as contemplative acts — objects and environments built to carry meaning beyond their surface.
About
"I've always been interested in what imagination does to a person — and what a person does to imagination."
Bradley McDevitt is a theater artist, designer, and depth psychologist whose work explores the creative act as a form of meaning-making. Over more than three decades in professional theater — as creator, director, performer, and teacher — he has developed a practice grounded in presence, imagination, and the body as primary instruments.
He is adjunct faculty in depth psychology and creativity at Pacifica Graduate Institute, where he brings together Jungian and archetypal perspectives with embodied performance practice. His approach to art-making is inseparable from his approach to living: attentive, exploratory, and committed to what is real.
He lives and works in Chapel Hill, NC.
Writing · Teaching · Speaking
Essays, courses, and lectures on creativity, imagination, depth psychology, and the craft of presence.
Essay
An exploration of how the body holds knowledge the conscious mind cannot access — and what that means for artists, teachers, and anyone who makes things.
ReadCourse · Pacifica Graduate Institute
A graduate seminar examining the relationship between the unconscious, the symbolic, and the creative act — drawing on Jungian, archetypal, and phenomenological traditions.
Learn moreLecture
What thirty years of performance practice teaches about authenticity, persona, and the courage to be seen — developed for leadership audiences.
InquireEssay
Against the productivity cult: what happens when artists commit to duration, difficulty, and the willingness to not yet know where something is going.
ReadWorkshop
A practical and contemplative workshop for individuals and teams who have lost contact with their creative impulse — or never trusted it to begin with.
InquireEssay
On the resonances between Jungian psychology and the live performance event — especially in the territory of shadow, projection, and transformation.
ReadContact
For performance work, teaching inquiries, speaking engagements, or a conversation about what's possible.
bradley@carolinacommons.org