Our Principles
Do more with less.
New audiences want meaningful experiences.
True wonder in the theater is possible.
Embrace not knowing.
Theater is most innovative and exciting when artists can make lots of work quickly and audiences can see the work cheaply. We move fast, operate frugally, and keep prices low. We love problem-solving within constraints—unusual venues, short development schedules, shoestring budgets, unadaptable source material. We take risks and prioritize working with new and young talent.
We offer intimate live events for young adults (and others) that respect their time, money, and desire for authenticity. We want to reaffirm the need for theater in our world, not through pandering or hectoring, but through sincere representation of the universally human. We especially love reanimating old and obscure language, in a way that finds clarity and resonance without sanding away the strangeness of the past.
There is a psychological and emotional world that only theater can access—one that, at its best, recreates the childhood spirit of make-believe. Works that reach for this world are more likely to succeed and endure than those that do not. To this end, we make theater that is expressly imaginative and theatrical—theater that could not be television, film, or personal essay.
Our theater is a home for artists to push themselves, take risks, and do hard things, and for audiences to be surprised, delighted, challenged, and moved. We make no assumptions about what can take place in the theater. Collaborators and audiences alike should leave the theater with more questions than answers.