“A fierce poetic snapshot of two contemporary cultures linked by history.” “The three distinctive actors [are] perfectly matched, giving tough, intelligent performances, masking an inner warmth behind their deadpan wit.”
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Anything That Gives Off Light
A new collaboration with the National Theatre of Scotland, premiering August 2016 at the Edinburgh International Festival.
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RoosevElvis
On a hallucinatory road trip from the Badlands to Graceland, the spirits of Elvis Presley and Theodore Roosevelt battle over the soul of Ann and what kind of man or woman she should become.
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Primer For a Failed Superpower
We are forming a three-generation cover band – with teenagers, ourselves, and retirees – to play an all-ages concert of protest songs from the past 75 years.
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The Holler Sessions
A rude, dynamic and desperate love letter to jazz, created and performed by TEAM member Frank Boyd.
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Architecting
From a condemned bar in post-Katrina New Orleans, to the mythical South of Gone with the Wind, to a lonely gas station in Arkansas, Architecting is a multi-media road-tripping requiem for modern America.
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Mission Drift
A pioneering journey across the USA in pursuit of the soul of American capitalism, told through atomic blasts, lizard ballet, and music that fuses Vegas glitz, Western ballads, and Southern blues.
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Particularly in the Heartland
“Simultaneously intelligent, rueful, celebratory, delightful and devastatingly sad, the show actually lives up to its ambitions. If after Heartland we can’t put the ‘us’ back in ‘U.S.,’ we’ll no longer have Kansas to blame.”
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Give Up! Start Over!
Give Up! Start Over! is a relentless solo performance about reality television, Richard Nixon, and the search for authenticity in America. Winner of the 2005 Edinburgh Fringe First Award, the work has been seen in London, Glasgow, and New York City.
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A Thousand Natural Shocks
A time-bending quartet inspired by Hamlet and other visions of the end of the world.
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Howl
What jazz would look like if put into human form. A wild physical work that takes Allen Ginsberg’s revolutionary poem and matches it with four restless young men.
From the TEAM Blog
Seeking: Fall/Winter 2016 Interns
Intern with the TEAM! We’re currently accepting applications from college students and recent grads for Fall/Winter internships in Producing and Development/Grantwriting.
Rehearsals begin for Anything That Gives Off Light
Hello from post-Brexit London, where Rachel, Jess, Matty, and Nick joined our Scottish collaborators on Monday to begin rehearsals for Anything That Gives Off Light. It’s a surreal time to be here to say the least, working on a play exploring (among many things) collective and self-interest, the Scottish independence movement, and America’s second amendment.
One Night Only: Primer for a Failed Superpower on June 8
Join us for a one-night-only sneak peek of our work-in-development PRIMER FOR A FAILED SUPERPOWER, featuring a teenage rock band from the Gowanus Music Club, and performances of new protest songs created for PRIMER by the TEAM and a multigenerational band of special guests.