MISSION

Theater 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.

VISION

We 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.
NIJINSKY IN ASYLUM
NIJINSKY IN ASYLUM

VALUES

  • Community – We seek to foster a vibrant, diverse, and resilient community of artists and art-lovers who feel valued, included, and heard. We strive to prevent harm in all of our spaces, while acknowledging the systems of oppression that intersect and permeate our lives (including racism, sexism, classism, ableism, and others).
  • 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.
  • Transparency – We believe transparency enables the sharing of power and responsibility. We commit to be open with how Theater in Asylum decisions are made and money is spent.

$0 TICKET INITIATIVE

Theater in Asylum is committed to having $0 tickets available at every public event for those who need them. If this is you, no worries at all! Please get yourself a $0 ticket and donate what you can at the door. If you are able to buy one of our higher-priced ticket, know that you are directly supporting those who cannot otherwise afford a ticket. Thank you so much!!

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