MISSION

Theater in Asylum joyfully pursues theater that challenges and empowers our community. We cherish rigorous research and an ensemble-driven approach to theater-making. We create performances to investigate our past, interpret our present, and imagine our future. We prize space to process, space to question—asylum—for ourselves and our community.

VISION

A world where the stage is a continual forum for question, debate, beauty, and progress. We seek a freer world and believe theater is both the means and the ends. 

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VALUES

• Empathy – We believe art has a unique ability to innovate morality and provoke understanding.
• Challenge – We believe in the constant reexamination of our world’s judgments, binaries and preconceptions.
• Integrity – We believe in a strong commitment to – and respect for – our art, our audiences, our predecessors, and ourselves.
• Availability – We believe new audiences should be constantly welcomed and cultivated, while seasoned audiences constantly surprised.
• Artistry – We believe that quality art takes care, craft and magic.

WHO WE ARE

Artistic Directors:
Paul Bedard
​& Katie Palmer

Managing Director:
Kathryn Appleton

Community Engagement Manager:
Hilarie Spangler