People over spectacle. Our work prioritizes every members’ artistic contributions and dissolves the conventional division of artists into separate areas of labor or specialization. We recognize that each of us brings valuable experience relating to every facet of performance and theatre-making and our production process makes room for all to contribute. We hope to set aside theatrical window dressing and aim beyond “beautifying” the stage. We instead strive to focus on the questions, challenges, and celebrations of our shared human experience.
Our Vision (the purpose of our theatre):
We believe our performances must have a clear purpose—an ever present and explicit reason for making them.
Our productions exist to serve:
- Serve our community with affordable, accessible, and welcoming events.
- Serve voices, experiences, and perspectives that have been historically marginalized or oppressed by providing them with a platform and support.
- Serve our creative and artistic interests by providing outlets for the exploration of reflections, questions, conflicts, ideas, and images.
- Serve our fellow artists by giving us the means to support their theatrical interests, endeavors, and experimentations.
We share a vision for a theatre-making process that welcomes artists, recognizes their strengths, and supports their unique modes of self-expression. We wish to change the common practice of looking for artists’ limitations as reasoning for excluding them. We aspire to abandon the model of hiring and casting based on normative expectations or preconceived notions of what an actor, character, or any other artist should look like, sound like, speak like, move like, or think like. In fact, our work directly challenges the stereotypes and biases pervasive in the American theatre.