Collaborative Company List

What Is Devised Theatre? article in The Theatre Times

Devised Theatre - TDF Dictionary

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RECOMMENDED COLLABORATIVE COMPANY LIST

Big Dance Theater

Complicite

Dell 'Arte International

Double Edge Theatre Company

DV8

Elevator Repair Service

Forced Entertainment

Ex Machina

Frantic Assembly

Gecko Theater Company

Pig Iron Company

Radio Hole

RashDash

Rude Mechanical

SpyMonkey

Tectonic

The Paper Birds Theater Company

Truthworker

Wooster Group

MS. G. RECOMMENDS THESE COMPANIES

Assembly Theater Project - Brooklyn "Embracing collaboration as the core of the creative process, the company chooses projects through consensus and develops text, action and design side-by-side within the rehearsal environment." Emphasis on community.

Complicite - England "The Company is famous for making its work through extensive periods of research and development which brings together performers, designers, writers, artists and specialists from diverse fields to create the works – a process now known simply as ‘devising’ "

Double Edge - Massachusetts Rigorous physical work. Emphasis on training as basis for developing performances.

Elevator Repair Service - Ms. G. may be able to get you in touch

Exmachina - Robert Lepage's group

Frantic Assembly- London

Big Art Group - New York City

Big Dance Theater - New York City

Bond Street - based out of NYC, but do work internationally. "To address the most pressing global issues, Bond Street Theatre creates projects worldwide, in conflict and post-conflict zones, refugee areas, and with specific groups, such as women and girls or youth."

The Civilians NYC, NY is a company that creates new theater from creative investigations into the most vital questions of the present.Through a number of artistic programs, The Civilians advances theater as an engine of artistic innovation and strengthens the connections between theater and society.

Dell'Arte International - California. They have well-established training and offer an MFA.

Grid Iron

Pig IronTheatre Company - Philadelphia

Rash Dash - (London) socio-political; feminist; create with both cerebral & sensual in mind

Rude Mechanicals (Laurel, MD) Wildly inventive and original, they re-infuse classical works with edge, intellect and a message that resonates brilliantly with the modern age.That message comes from a deep and profound love of classic works, and a belief that reexamining and questioning the assumptions keeps art and theater alive. The Rude Mechanicals are rebels. They reject the mold because they have the freedom to make more interesting, less commercial choices.

SITI Company - Anne Bogart's company.

The Wooster Group - NYC- based group

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OTHER DEVISED COLLABORATIVE COMPANIES THAT YOU MIGHT ENJOY EXPLORING

B-Floor (Bangkok, Thailand) - link goes to a Youtube video. Their website was down when I added them to this page, but you can do a search for them and find articles and clips of their work.

DV8 Physical Theatre

Epic Theater

Forced Entertainment (Sheffield, UK) Six collaborators who have been working for 30 years and work with a vast variety of ways of creating.

Forkbeard - England

Gecko Theatre

The Ghost Road Company (Los Angeles, CA)

Nature Theater of Oklahoma - NYC

With each new project, we attempt to set an impossible challenge for ourselves, the audience, and our collaborators -- working from inside the codes and confines of established genres and exploding them. No two projects are formally the same, but the work is always full of humor, earnestness, rigor, and the audience plays an essential role -- whether as spectators or - just as often - as participants in the work.

Neo-Futurists Chicago, IL "Theater that is a fusion of sport, poetry and living-newspaper." Good Article about their work.

Nerve Tank

Massive Company

Not Man Apart - Los Angeles - Physical Theater - Brings Dance, Theater & Spoken Word together

Out of Balanz

Push Theatre Rochester, NY - Physical, Collaborative - Have good process info.

The Paper Birds - verbatim theater, English company

People Show

Pintsize Theatre Company - Devising to explore local issues

PopUP Theatrics (NY, NY) creates site-specific/ site impacting theatrical events in dynamic collaborations with theatre artists world-wide.

Radio Hole (NY, NY)

Reckless Sleepers

Spiderwoman Theater (NYC, NY) Feminist, Native American Spiderwoman Theater’s work bridges the traditional cultural art forms of storytelling, dance, and music and the practice of contemporary Western theater. Born in Brooklyn, their work springs from their own lives and experiences as “city Indians”. As the grandmothers of the Indigenous theater movement in the United States and Canada, they are mentors to the upcoming generation of Indigenous performers, writers, and educators. In addition to presenting their own work, they are collaborating with and incorporating the work of these artists into the company.

Sojourn Theatre

Station House Opera

Subversive Theatre Company now in the fifteenth year of our kamikaze mission to bring you the most provocative, the most defiant, the most empowering, and the most urgently necessary plays under the sun...come be a part of the revolution, we look forward to subverting YOU!

Tangled Feet

Teatro Linea de Sombra (Mexico)

Teatro Luna - Teatro Luna West & Teatro Luna Chicago

The Team (Brooklyn, NY) "The Guardian once described us as “theatrical excavators of American culture, American dreams and the American psyche.” Combining aggressive athleticism with emotional performances, our work crashes characters from American history and mythology into modern stories, drawing unexpected and sometimes uncomfortable connections across time to touch the raw nerves of the current moment."

Target Margin

Theatre de l'Ange Fou - Mime is the base of their work

Theatre du Soleil

Theatre Grottesco - Santa Fe, New Mexico - LeCoq- based; buffoon, mask, commedia

Theatre O

Told By An Idiot

Trestle - Masks & Collaboration

Waterwell (NY, NY) strives to create new theater that entertains and enlightens. The company seeks to prove itself a vital presence in the lives of its audience by remaining always responsive: responsive to the events affecting the world at large, responsive to changing modes of expression and responsive to the individuals attending the performance. Waterwell endeavors to cultivate the inherent danger in live performance to create an exciting and unpredictable event — an event pruned down to its irreducible elements: human beings sharing a space and a story. Through that story…through the humor, sadness and hope it evokes…Waterwell hopes to empower its audience to change their lives and the world in which they live.

Who’s Louis (Salt Lake City, UT) mission is to represent humanity and its many facets by revitalizing new art through the lens of young artists. [They] seek to create dynamic, engaging, and inclusive theatre through alternative writing techniques

Woodshed Collective - NYC - Immersive theater

Tricklock (Albuquerque, New Mexico) The ensemble often studies the harsher side of humanity in their work, using a variety of styles such as physical story creation, object and shadow puppetry, poetic language, song, and humor to tell these stories. Tricklock has a strong connection to its Albuquerque community, hosting open work demonstrations through its Excavations series, seeking community input in the work.

Wrights and Sites

Among the companies I have added are:

1927 (UK), http://www.19-27.co.uk/

Ashtar Theatre (Ramallah), http://www.ashtar-theatre.org/about.html

Au Ments Dansa Teatre (Spain), http://www.auments.com/

Clockwork Theatre Co. (Australia), http://www.clockfiretheatre.com/

Compagnia TPO (Italy), http://www.tpo.it/

Dreamthinkspeak (UK), http://www.dreamthinkspeak.com/

Elevator Repair Service (USA), http://www.elevator.org/

Geese Theatre (UK), http://www.geese.co.uk/

and https://vimeo.com/65966454

Ghost Road Company (USA), http://ghostroad.org/