Lisa Fay and Jeff Glassman - Urbana, IL
As movement-based theatre artists, the duo applies composed structures to ordinary behavior. Notated scores accompany their productions. 'Natural-looking' behavior is subjected to contortions and subversions, letting 'naturalism' show its socially constructed face. They invent new systems for organizing speech and movement in live theatre, similarly to how systems for organizing sound have been invented for composing music - for example, a technique for the orchestration of numerous split-second 'pivots' of time-place frames in complex patterns. The duo welcomes invitations to create works for and with ensembles.

Looking for Lilith - Louisville, KY
Looking for Lilith collaboratively creates original plays based on women’s history and women’s experiences. These plays are based on extensive research done by the company and often rely heavily on histories and first person narratives. LFL also has a strong commitment to community and educational outreach and offers a wide variety of residencies involving their artists.

Los Angeles Poverty Department - Los Angeles, CA
Los Angeles Poverty Department was founded in 1985 in acknowledgement of the inherently social process of theater. Los Angeles Poverty Department (LAPD) creates performance work that connects lived experience to the social forces that shape the lives and communities of people living in poverty. The group ahs historically used theater with other means of public education, organizing, and partnering with other ensembles and individual artists and arts organizations and with a large group of social justice and direct service organizations.
 
Maryland Ensemble Theatre - Frederick, MD
The concept for Maryland Ensemble Theatre (MET) was born the summer of 1992 at the Contemporary American Theatre Festival in Shepherdstown, WV. Creative minds developed a scenario: build a multi-faceted arts organization in a location close to urban life yet also maintain the serenity of rural life.

Mondo Bizarro - New Orleans, LA
Mondo Bizarro is a New Orleans based arts production company dedicated to the creation and performance of original multi-disciplinary work. Our vision is to participate in the betterment of our community and the expansion of its consciousness while instilling the sentiments of fun, play, and imagination into a common public experience through the hosting, nurturing, and performing of the arts. We seek to bring together elements of regional, national and international arts with various community organizations and local citizens to create an understanding of what makes us commonly human and individually unique.  To date, our production credits include original work in theater, film, festival organizing, oral history, and ensemble development.  Though diverse in nature, all of our productions are linked by a strong desire to develop bold original works of art collaboratively.

Mountain Top Theatre - South Bend, IN
Mountain Top Theatre was founded with the intent to create Zion, the city of Holiness, where the people are of one heart, one mind, and no poor dwell among them. Mountain Top believes that theatre provides a unique opportunity for people to come together and develop a greater sensitivity to one another, and yet still celebrate their individuality. Ensemble members try to integrate their spiritual lives outside of the theatre with their creative process in the rehearsal room and invite the audience to go on a spiritual journey with them in every performance.

MUGABEE - Jackson, MS

NACL Theatre - Highland Lake, NY
North American Cultural Laboratory (NACL) creates innovative original work that is ensemble-based, utilizing devised methods of creation, heightened physicality, and song to create vivid theatre experiences. Over the years, we have developed a unique approach to actor training and creation technique that awakens each artist's potential to maximize the expressive use of body, voice, imagination, experience, memory and intellect. NACL also produces The NACL Catskill Festival of New Theatre, an annual international festival which provides a nurturing performance venue for an array of theatre performers from around the world.

New York Neo-Futurists - New York, NY
The New York Neo-Futurists are a collective of wildly productive writer/director/performers who create theater that is a fusion of sport, poetry, and living-newspaper.  Our performances are non-illlusory, conveying our experiences and ideas as directly and honestly as possible.  Our aim is to influence the widest audience possible by keeping our ticket prices affordable and our productions intellectually challenging, yet accessible.  We embrace those unreached or unmoved by conventional theater, inspiring them to thought, feeling and action.

New World Performance Laboratory - Akron, OH
Our Mission - To create theatre events and pedagogical programs, to research performance techniques from around the world, and to develop a contemporary performance methodology for culturally diverse theatre artists.

The NOLA Project - New Orleans, LA
The NOLA Project is an active, young theater company in New Orleans creating new work and performing new and important plays.  The NOLA Project is dedicated to the development of theater in New Orleans through the creation of of new works and the education of audiences.

olive Dance Theatre, Inc. - Philadelphia, PA
A Philadelphia-based touring company that produces contemporary theatre using hip-hop aesthetics. Our work aims to incite social change through performance, education and community programs which honor contemporary folk traditions.

Out of Hand Theater - Atlanta, GA
Out of Hand Theater, featured in American Theatre Magazine as one of the hottest young companies in the country, creates high energy physical theater Events. Out of Hand makes live theater accessible and exciting by involving the audience in a  new way in each show, as well as through our extreme physical style. We produce three shows a year: one great work of literature, one company-created show and one piece designed for performance in spaces not designated for theater. In addition, we train as an ensemble in our signature Boot Camp physical theater workshops and hold Boot Camps for high school and college student groups and for theater professionals in our community. Founded in 2001, Out of Hand is one of the only companies in Atlanta that produces original work through ensemble creation. We are committed to developing new audiences by creating substantive work which engages and appeals to our city's youth, specifically in the 18 to 35-year-old range, as well as to the theater-going community at large. With ensemble-created shows like 30 Below and HELP! and classics like Miss Julie and Indiscretions, Out of Hand is putting a bold stamp on new American theater.

Pangea World Theater - Minneapolis, MN
Pangea World Theater is committed to international works, styles and traditions that illuminate the human condition, end divisiveness, and celebrate differences. We strive to bring communities across the world together through theater productions, workshops and speakers.

Phoenix Theatre Ensemble - New York, NY
An ever evolving ensemble, Phoenix Theatre Ensemble is committed to
the ideals and principals of an artist-directed theatre that supports
artists and art, not administration. We provide an artistic home that
honors the diversity of experience of its individual members. Our
passion - plays new and old that tell great stories revealing humanity
and the human condition in all it myriad forms.

Playback Theater NYC - New York, NY

Pontine Theatre - Portsmouth, NH
Pontine Theatre has been a ground-breaking force in the blossoming of actor-based theatre, creating work that is engaging, innovative and original. Pontine's work is founded on the concept that the actor should function as a creative (rather than interpretive) artist, and that the name actor dictates action (movement) as their primary tool. Co-Artistic Directors, M. Marguerite Mathews and Gregory Gathers, have presented over 50 original works. Creating and performing these works, Pontine has introduced the unique experience of movement theatre to an expanding audience, transforming audience interest in mime, dance music, literature, and theatre into enthusiasm for this emerging combination of forms.

Roadside Theater Company - Whitesburg, KY
Roadside Theater is creating a body of drama based on the history and lives of Appalachian people and collaborating with others nationally who are dramatizing their local life.

Rogue Artists Ensemble - Los Angeles, CA
Rogue Artists Ensemble is a collective of multi-disciplinary artists who create Hyper-theater, an innovative hybrid of theater traditions, puppetry, mask work, dance, music, and modern technology. Through a collaborative development process, with an emphasis on design and storytelling, the Rogues create original, thought provoking performances. We cultivate unique audience experiences that appeal to multiple generations of theatergoers in order to expand the boundaries of contemporary American theater.

Rude Mechanicals - Austin, TX

San Francisco Mime Troupe - San Francisco, CA
The mission of the San Francisco Mime Troupe is to create and produce socially relevant theater of the highest professional quality and to perform it before the broadest possible audience.

Sandbox Theater - Minneapolis, MN
Sandbox is a collection of artists dedicated to creating new and newly-imagined performance art and fostering artistic growth.

Sandglass Theater - Putney, VT
Sandglass Theater is an internationally known theater company specializing in the use of the puppet and visual imagery. Since 1982, the company's productions have toured 24 countries, performing in theaters, festivals and cultural institutions, and winning international prizes.

Serious Play! Theatre Ensemble - Northampton, MA
For the SERIOUS PLAY! THEATRE ENSEMBLE, theatre is a potent art form. We work to find the truth in each dramatic moment by creating a physical form of expression that engages audiences in a fresh new way, as a true theatrical celebration!
     We challenge ourselves to explore our individual histories, creativity, and voices and to fuse these experiences into powerful theatre with strong contemporary messages through "total physical expressiveness on stage." Ensemble artists are ethnically diverse, and often from rural as well as urban backgrounds.
     We hope to revitalize American theatre by reclaiming theatre from the American media. We begin with young adult actors who invite their peers as audience to share their contemporary and insightful artistic work, thus we begin to educate future generations to the power and intimacy of the live moment.

Shotgun Players - Berkeley, CA
The Shotgun Players were born in 1992 when eleven people got together and put on a play in the basement of a pizza parlor.  Now, we have grown to include an artistic company, a wide subscriber base, enthusiastic critical support, a faithful audience of theater lovers, and our own building in which we perform.

Sideshow Physical Theatre - David, CA

SITI Company - New York, NY
SITI Company is an ensemble-based theater company led by Anne Bogart. Its mission is: To create bold new productions; to perform and tour these productions nationally and internationally; to train together consistently; to train theater professionals and students in an approach to acting and collaboration that forges unique and highly disciplined artists for the theater; and, to create opportunities for artistic dialogue and cultural exchange. Founded in 1992 by Anne Bogart and Tadashi Suzuki, SITI Company began as an agreement to redefine and revitalize contemporary theater in the United States through an emphasis on international cultural exchange and collaboration. Originally envisioned as a summer institute in Saratoga Springs, New York, SITI expanded to encompass a year-round company based in New York City with a summer season in Saratoga.

Sojourn Theatre - Portland, OR
Sojourn theatre is a multi-ethnic, multi-lingual ensemble-based theatre company making and often touring new performances in our home state of Oregon, and around the nation. Our process and programming is community engaged; our work is strikingly physical, politically inquisitive and history conscious. We work locally, regionally and throughout the country to surprise audiences, stimulate civic dialogue and bridge urban, suburban and rural communities.

Son of Semele Ensemble - Los Angeles, CA
Son of Semele Ensemble is a collective of theatre professionals that recognizes emerging cultural questions through the production of new or under-exposed plays. We produce intimate theatre to provoke an awakening within our audience and ourselves.

Spear Ensemble Theatre - San Francisco, CA
Based in San Francisco, Spear is an emerging ensemble of actors and artists working with physical theatre. They tell stories through a dance of music, literature, everyday movements, acrobatics, staged combat and mask inspired stylizations. It is their goal to evoke community consciousness, through provacative spectacle, by igniting a fresh interest to the familiar.

Strike Anywhere Performance Ensemble - New York, NY
Strike Anywhere is a not-for-profit professional performance ensemble. The company's mission is to promote empathy, free-thinking, and greater awareness of social issues through provocative theater and high quality educational outreach.

TAPIT/new works - Madison, WI
TAPIT/new works is a performing arts organization established in 1985 to create and produce original theater. Artistic innovation and community connection drive the organization, fueled by collaboration among artists working in the disciplines of playwriting, tap dance, music, visual arts and other media. TAPIT/new works is a thinker's theater, a seekerâ??s source of inspiration, exploring current issues and historic events to entertain, enlighten and connect emotionally.

TeAda Productions - Santa Monica, CA
TeAda is a multi-cultural and interdisciplinary theater group that focuses on creating new work about health, education, and social justice needs of underserved communities.

Theater Breaking Through Barriers - New York, NY
We are an integrated company of people with disabilities and able-bodies individuals doing plays dealing with disabilities and plays that give us rich roles.

Theater Grottesco - Santa Fe, NM
Theater Grottesco creates new performance theater that is explosive and visual. Our work rekindles interest in live performance as an art form and offers a fresh perspective of humanity and our many cultures. Grottesco also trains young, emerging and professional artists in the styles and processes of this new theater, while sharing our creation process with the general public.

Theater of NOTE - Los Angeles, CA
Theatre of NOTE is a non-profit democratic company that stagedives the arena of the theater arts. Founded in 1981, our ensemble-based organization is dedicated to providing a creative environment in which to collaborate on and develop maverick theater.

Theatre Movement Bazaar - Los Angeles, CA
Theatre Movement Bazaar is an LA-based theatre company dedicated to creating original performance works. TMB merges elements of movement, sound, text and design from diverse sources into a complex performance. In this multifarious approach, the company strives to reinvigorate theatre for a contemporary audience.

Theatre of Yugen - San Francisco, CA
Theatre of Yugen is an experimental ensemble dedicated to the pursuit of the intangible essence called yugen through its exploration of dramatic and literary classics and the crafting of new works of world theater.

theatre simple - Seattle, WA
An award-winning, internationally acclaimed company, theater simple was founded in with the aim of stripping the theatrical experience down to its elemental parts: the imagination of the actor and audience, the playwright's words and the director's vision. theater simple has built a solid artistic reputation producing provocative, literate, subversive, entertaining and original theatrical experiences. We aim to do plays that touch/challenge/change, and perhaps inspire artists and audiences that want theater simple. We build from the imagination up.

Touchstone Theatre - Bethlehem, PA
The company is dedicated to being an active force in the renewal of theatre as a vital art form. At our heart is a resident professional acting Ensemble rooted in both the local community of Bethlehem, Pennsylvania and the international community of the actor/creator.

Traveling Jewish Theatre - San Francisco, CA
Traveling Jewish Theatre's mission is to create and perform original works of theatre, as an ensemble and in collaboration with theatre artists from a variety of cultural and ethnic backgrounds, that contribute to a generous vision of the human condition.

Triple Shadow - East Otis, MA
Triple Shadow (formerly Thunder Bay Collaborative) creates visual music-theater with masks, vocal music, puppetry and dance, challenging artistic boundaries, revealing the inter-connectedness between human cultures and nature. The process, co-directed by Beth Skinner and Edward Herbst, is intercultural and interdisciplinary, affecting audiences in sensory and subconscious ways. An essential aspect of Thunder Bay's work involves collaboration and intensive research within a wide range of international contexts.

Universes - Bronx, NY

Washington Ensemble Theatre - Seattle, WA
WET is a self-determining ensemble of actors, designers, directors and artists committed to the creation of relevant, immediate and bold theatrical events. Through genuinely collaborative artistic and administrative processes, WET aims to be a physical and creative intersection for community and art in American Theatre.

Watts Village Theater Company- Los Angeles, CA
Watts Village Theater Company stands as the only arts organization that regularly produces live theater in the community of Watts.  It has established itself in the Los Angeles theater scene through identification in its name and work with the community of Watts, as well as through the artistic excellence and production values of its shows.  On the cutting edge of cultural depictions of race relations, WVTC conceives of itself neither as an “ethnic” nor a “neighborhood” company, but as a theater company speaking to the greater Los Angeles community, whose vision and goals are shaped by the Watts experience.  WVTC is first and foremost an arts organization, though it takes pride in a history marked by addressing social needs within the community.

Workhorse - Providence, RI

Working Classroom - Albequerque, NM
Working Classroom is a multi-ethinic, inter-generational company producing original work and work by contemporary playwrights of color.

Ziggurat Theatre Ensemble - Beverly Hills, CA
Ziggurat creates original, ensemble-based work inspired by world myth and utilizing highly stylized, physical theatre forms.

Zoo District - Los Angeles, CA