MISSIONTheater in Asylum challenges and empowers our community through performance. Since founding in NYC in 2010, we have joyfully pursued 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.
VISIONWe envision a world where the theater is a haven for all to question and grow, where people can discover and try out new tools to wrestle with big ideas together.
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NIJINSKY IN ASYLUM
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VALUES
- Community – We strive for our spaces to be safe, accessible, welcoming, and invigorating to our growing community.
- 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.
CORE PROGRAMS
- Productions: Feature-length theatrical productions
- Cabarets: Short works from our community centering on a theme
- Cold Readings: Our ongoing exploration of great plays
LEADERSHIP
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Managing Director:
Kathryn Appleton |
Community Engagement Manager:
Hilarie Spangler |