Theatre For One

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Theatre for One offers a variety of unique, custom-created performance experiences.  For information about how to bring Theatre for One to your community, contact us.


Signature Theatre’s SigSpace Reteams with Theatre For One to Present Déjà Vu | June 9-26, 2022

Theatre For One: Déjà Vu, SigSpace brings Theatre For One’s mobile theater, and the singular one-on-one theatre experiences it contains, into The Pershing Square Signature Center’s Lobby to present a collection of five revivals of Theatre For One microplays from 2016 that remain blazingly topical, as well a World Premiere piece from Samuel D. Hunter. Other featured playwrights — four of them current or former Signature Resident Playwrights — Include Hunter, David Henry Hwang, Lynn Nottage, José Rivera, DeLanna Studi, and Regina Taylor.


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Photo of Mūmbi Kaigwa (writer and performer in Theatre for One: WE ARE HERE (Nairobi Edition).

NYU Abu Dhabi | WE ARE HERE (Nairobi Edition) | SEPTEMBER 15–OCTOBER 3, 2021 & JANUARY 10–12, 2022

Theatre For One: We Are Here (Nairobi Edition) is a live digital theatrical experience that brings together one actor and one audience member featuring six new micro-plays which speak to these times we are in. Featured playwrights, directors and performers: Aleya Kassam, Esther Kamba, SRĐA, Mercy Mutisya, Kholoud Sawaf, Nyokabi Macharia, Laura Ekumbo, Mūmbi Kaigwa, Sitawa Namwalie, and Anne Moraa.


ARTS BROOKFIELD Manhattan West IN-PERSON | HERE IS FUTURE
AUGUST 20–OCTOBER 29, 2021

Theatre For One: Here is Future presented by Arts Brookfield at Manhattan West in NYC. Featured playwrights, directors and performers: Jaclyn Backhaus, Lydia R. Diamond, Stacey Rose, DeLanna Studi, Regina Taylor, korde arrington tuttle, Joanie Anderson, Tanis Parenteau, Angel Desai, Denise Manning, Lizan Mitchell, Tiffany Nichole Greene, Rebecca Martinez, SRĐA, and Regina Taylor. Here is Future is commissioned by Arts Brookfield.


NYU Abu Dhabi | HERE WE ARE
APRIL 7–11, 2021

Theatre For One: Here We Are is a live digital theatrical experience that brings together one actor and one audience member featuring eight new micro-plays which speak to these times we are in. Featured playwrights, directors and performers: Candis C. Jones, Carmelita Tropicana, DeLanna Studi, Eisa Davis, Lydia R. Diamond, Lynn Nottage, Mahira Kakkar, Nikkole Salter, Patrice Bell, Rebecca Martinez, Regina Taylor, Russell G. Jones, Shyla Lefner, Stacey Rose, Tamilla Woodard, Taylor Reynolds, Tiffany Nichole Greene, and Zuleyma Guevara.


Patrice Bell in Thank You For Coming. Take Care. by Stacey Rose. Photo: Cherie B. Tay

ARTS BROOKFIELD ONLINE | HERE WE ARE AUGUST 20–SEPTEMBER 24, 2020

Theatre For One: Here We Are is a live digital theatrical experience that brings together one actor and one audience member featuring eight new micro-plays which speak to these times we are in.  Featured playwrights, directors and performers: Candis C. Jones, Carmelita Tropicana, DeLanna Studi, Eisa Davis, Jaclyn Backhaus, Lydia R. Diamond, Lynn Nottage, Mahira Kakkar, Nikkole Salter, Patrice Bell, Rebecca Martinez, Regina Taylor, Russell G. Jones, Shyla Lefner, Stacey Rose, Tamilla Woodard, Taylor Reynolds, Tiffany Nichole Greene, and Zuleyma Guevara. Here We Are is commissioned by Arts Brookfield with additional support from Thomas M. Neff.


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ABBEY THEATRE/DUBLIN THEATRE FESTIVAL DUBLIN, IRELAND | SEPTEMBER 28–OCTOBER 10, 2020

Produced by Landmark Productions and Octopus Theatricals, it features short plays by six of Ireland’s leading writers – Marina Carr, Stacey Gregg, Emmet Kirwan, Louise Lowe, Mark O’Rowe and Enda Walsh – in ‘theatre distilled to its purest, most intense version, then injected directly into the vein’ (The Irish Times). Presented by the Abbey Theatre and Dublin Theatre Festival in partnership with Accenture and Dublin City Council.


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Cork Midsummer Festival | Cork, Ireland, June 18–23, 2019

Theatre For One, in collaboration with Landmark Productions, made its European debut at Ireland’s Cork Midsummer Festival. Featuring specially commissioned plays by the best and brightest of the Irish theater community: Enda Walsh, Marina Carr, Mark O’Rowe, Stacey Gregg, Louise Lowe, and Emmet Kirwan.


UNIVERSITY OF ARKANSAS - DEPARTMENT OF THEATRE, FAYETTEVILLE | APRIL 14–29, 2018

Theatre For One and the University of Arkansas Department of Theatre are collaborating on a unique residency.  After visits from Theatre For One artists and producing team, the theater department is co-producing a series of seven original works by  by a mix of student, local and national playwrights (including some University of Arkansas faculty members).  The produced works are included in the Festival of New Works and will also travel to Crystal Bridges for additional performances.


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Lewis Center for the Arts, Princeton University | October 6–8, 2017

Theatre for One returns to its roots at Princeton University where it was first developed through Princeton's Atelier Program. Now we will work with playwriting students to develop a new series of plays to be performed by professional actors and presented at the newly built Lewis Center for the Arts on the Princeton campus.


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Fairfield University | March 2017

Theatre For One traveled to Fairfield University for our first-ever university residency, providing a unique program of performances for the Fairfield University community. March 22-24, 2017


Playwrights John Guare and David Henry Hwang prepare for In This Moment at the Pershing Square Signature Center.

Playwrights John Guare and David Henry Hwang prepare for In This Moment at the Pershing Square Signature Center.

SIGNATURE THEATRE, New York City November 2016

Theatre for One shares Signature Theatre's mission to deliver an intimate and immersive journey into the playwright's singular vision. In November 2016, we presented new work by Signature playwrights commissioned in response to the phrase, "In This Moment." The resulting series of 5 minute plays by Lee Blessing, Charles Fuller, John Guare, David Henry Hwang, Bill Irwin, Charles L. Mee, Regina Taylor, and Naomi Wallace gave voice to a range of characters grappling with interior and exterior climates situated historically and politically in this moment. For this residency, Theatre for One became the one seat theatre addition to Signature Center's three-theatre facility designed by Frank Gehry Architects.


Theatre For One I'm Not The Stranger You Think I Am at ArtsBrookfield's Wintergarden Mall June 2015

Theatre For One I'm Not The Stranger You Think I Am at ArtsBrookfield's Wintergarden Mall June 2015

ARTS BROOKFIELD (WINTERGARDEN, ZUCOTTI PARK, GRACE PLAZA) | NEW YORK CITY, MAY 2015

I'M NOT THE STRANGER YOU THINK I AM - 7 plays by Craig Lucas, Will Eno, Lynn Nottage, Jose Rivera, Thomas Bradshaw, Zayd Dohrn and Emily Schwend.Rooted in the belief that emotional intimacy is possible at any moment, at any time, and with any person, each short play in I’m Not the Stranger You Think I Am was specially commissioned for production in Theatre for One’s custom-designed, state-of-the-art performance space.


Concordia University, Montreal, Quebec | September 2011

In collaboration with Concordia University and Co-curator Ana Cappelluto, Theatre for One was in residence in September of 2011. 

The Montreal cast included Steve Cuiffo, Tasha Lawrence, Danette Mackay, Dallas Roberts and Harry Standjofski. These artists of different disciplines performed five-to-10-minute original music and theatre pieces in English and French. Performances took place Sep 22 - 24 at the Sculpture Garden Courtyard of Concordia University’s FOFA Gallery in the Engineering, Computer Science and Visual Arts Integrated Complex


Theatre For Onein Times Square, May 2011

Theatre For Onein Times Square, May 2011

TIMES SQUARE, NEW YORK CITY | May 2011

Invited back by the Times Square Alliance for Public Art, Theatre for One™ was in residence in Duffy Square from June 8 through June 12, 2011, presenting theatre pieces created specifically for this venue. Performed by Dallas Roberts, Steve Cuiffo, and many more.

 


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