Past Productions
2017 – 2018
The Mineola Twins by Paula Vogel
The Cutting Ball Variety Pack
Timon of Athens by William Shakespeare
2016 – 2017
Avant GardARAMA!
Hedda Gabler by Henrik Ibsen
Phèdre by Jean Racine
Readings
Phèdre by Jean Racine
Uncle Vanya by Anton Chekov
Timon of Athens by Shakespeare
2015 – 2016
A Dreamplay by August Strindberg
Ondine by Katharine Sherman
Life is a Dream by Pedro Calderón de la Barca
Risk Is This…
all of what you love and none of what you hate by Phillip Howze
My Home is Where by Alex Johnson
Borealis by Bennett Fisher
The Hidden Classics Reading Series
Hedda Gabler by Henrik Ibsen
Phèdre by Jean Racine
2014 – 2015
Mount Misery by Andrew Saito
Antigone by Sophocles
Superheroes by Sean San José
Risk Is This…
Who Is Heiner Muller or The End of History by Mark Jackson
Caught by Christopher Chen
nightcap by Katharine Sherman
whisper fish by Andrew Saito
Beauty Secrets by Andrew Saito
The Hidden Classics Reading Series
Oresteia by Aeschylus
Life is a Dream by Pedro Calderón de la Barca
A Murder of Crows by Mac Wellman
A Dream Play by Austin Strindberg
Hamletmachine by Heiner Mueller
2013 – 2014
Sidewinders by Basil Kreimendahl
Ubu Roi by Alfred Jarry
Communiqué n° 10 by Samuel Gallet
Risk Is This…
Stegosaurus by Andrew Saito
Ondine by Katherine Sherman
Mt. Misery by Andrew Saito
WINK by Jen Silverman
Ex Machina by David Jacobi
The Hidden Classics Reading Series
The Natural Relations and other plays by Qorpo Santo
Antigone by Sophocles
The Police by Slawomir Mrozek
The Balcony by Jean Genet
Venus and Adonis by William Shakespeare
Rabinal Achi An ancient Mayan play translated by Dennis Tedlock
2012 – 2013
Strindberg Cycle: The Chamber Plays in Rep by August Strindberg
The Chairs by Eugène Ionesco
Krispy Kritters In The Scarlett Night by Andrew Saito
Superheroes By Sean San José
Ubu Roi By Alfred Jarry
Insect Play By Josef and Karl ?apek
Passing By Dipika Guha
Sidewinders By Basil Kreimendahl
The Hidden Classics Reading Series
The Father by August Strindberg
The Increased Difficulty of Concentration by Václav Havel
Electra By Sophocles
The Merry Wives of Windsor by William Shakespeare
The Black Masks by Leonid Andreev
2011 – 2012
Pelleas & Melisande by Maurice Maeterlinck
Tontlawald text by Eugenie Chan
Tenderloin by Annie Elias with Tristan Cunningham, Siobhan Doherty, Rebecca Frank, Michael Kelly, Leigh Shaw, David Sinaiko and David Westley Skillman
Aulis: An Act of Nihilism in One Long Act By Christopher Chen
GIZMO By Anthony Clarvoe
The Ghost Sonata by August Strindberg
The Pelican and The Black Glove by August Strindberg
Storm and Burned House by August Strindberg
The Hidden Classics Reading Series
Play Strindberg By Friedrich Dürrenmatt
Camino Real by Tennessee Williams
Miss Julie and A Dream Play by August Strindberg
Easter by August Strindberg
The Stronger, Pariah, and Simoon by By August Strindberg
The Keys to Heaven by August Strindberg
2010 – 2011
The Tempest by William Shakespeare
Bone To Pick & Diadem by Eugenie Chan
Lady Grey (in ever lower light) and other plays by Will Eno
Tontlawald by Eugenie Chan
Krispy Kritters In The Scarlett Night by Andrew Saito
Madame Ho by Eugenie Chan
Ozma of Oz Adapted from the novel by L. Frank Baum, Rob Melrose (book and lyrics), Z.O.N.K. (music)
Tenderloin by Anne Elias
The Hidden Classics Reading Series
The Braggart Soldier by Plautus
Epicoene, or The Silent Woman by Ben Johnson
Andromache by Euripedes
The Insect Play by Josef and Karel Capek
The False Suitor by Marivaux
2009 – 2010
The Bald Soprano by Eugène Ionesco
…and Jesus Moonwalks the Mississippi by Marcus Gardley
Krapp’s Last Tape by Samuel Beckett
The Hidden Classics Reading Series
The Knights by by Aristophanes
Troilus And Cressida by William Shakespeare
Medea Vs. Medea Euripides vs. Seneca
Women Beware Women by Thomas Middleton
Storm by August Strindberg
The Antiquarian's Family by Carlo Goldoni
2008 – 2009
Victims of Duty by Eugène Ionesco
Mud by Maria Irene Fornes
Thom Pain by Will Eno
Krapp’s Last Tape by Samuel Beckett
Open Process
Pelléas and Mélisande by Maurice Maeterlinck in a new translation by Rob Melrose
The Hidden Classics Reading Series
The Pelican by August Strindberg in a new translation by Paul Walsh
Magnetism of the Heart by Aleksander Fredro
Helen by Euripides
2007 – 2008
Endgame by Samuel Beckett
Avant GardARAMA! 2008: an Evening of Short Experimental Plays
Accents in Alsace by Gertrude Stein
Betting on the Dust Commander by Suzan-Lori Parks
Bone to Pick by Eugenie Chan (world premiere)
Risk is This…The Cutting Ball New Experimental Plays Festival
…and Jesus Moonwalks the Mississippi by Marcus Gardley
Trojan Barbie by Christine Evans
Lighthouse by Brad Chequer
The Hidden Classics Reading Series
The Emperor of the Moon by Aphra Behn
Burned House by August Strindberg in a new translation by Paul Walsh
Doctor Faustus by Christopher Marlowe
Doctor Faustus Lights the Lights by Gertrude Stein
Pelléas and Mélisande by Maurice Maeterlinck in a new translation by Rob Melrose
2006 – 2007
Risk Commissions
Mr. Fujiyama’s Electric Beach by Kevin Oakes
Bone to Pick by Eugenie Chan
365 Days / 365 Plays by Suzan-Lori Parks
Woyzeck by Georg Büchner in a new translation by Rob Melrose
The Taming of the Shrew by William Shakespeare
The Hidden Classics Reading Series
Danton’s Death by Georg Büchner
The Public by Federico García Lorca in a new adaptation by Caridad Svich
Quartet & The Task by Heiner Müller
Life is a Dream by Pedro Calderòn
It Is So (If You Think So) by Luigi Pirandello
The Black Glove by August Strindberg
Ubu Roi by Alfred Jarry in a new translation by Rob Melrose
2005 – 2006
The Death of the Last Black Man in the Whole Entire World by Suzan-Lori Parks
The Maids by Jean Genet
Risk Is This… The Cutting Ball New Experimental Plays Festival
The Girl Triptych by Janet Allard
Alien Motel 29: The Secret Outtakes of The Ebony Lady Macbeth by Robert Alexander
the evolutionist’s club by Kevin Oakes
The Hidden Classics Reading Series
The Rover by Aphra Behn
The Ghost Sonata by August Strindberg in a new translation by Paul Walsh
Medea by Seneca
The Changeling by Thomas Middleton and William Rowley
Sphinx and Strawman & Murder Hope of Womankind by Oskar Kokoschka
2004 – 2005
Macbeth by William Shakespeare
No Exit by Jean-Paul Sartre, in a new translation by Rob Melrose
Avant GardARAMA! 2004: an Evening of Short Experimental Plays
Fighter Airplanes from the notebooks of Richard Foreman
Ajax, for Instance by Heiner Müller translated by Carl Weber
Helen of Troy by Rob Melrose
Pickling by Suzan-Lori Parks
The Sandalwood Box by Mac Wellman
2003 – 2004
The Vomit Talk of Ghosts by Kevin Oakes (world premiere)
Risk is This… The Cutting Ball New Experimental Plays Festival
Snakewoman an opera libretto by Eugenie Chan
Wet, or Isabella the Pirate Queen Enters the Horse Latitudes by Liz Duffy Adams
Infestation by Payne Ratner
2002 – 2003
Roberto Zucco by Bernard-Marie Koltès
Risk is This… The Cutting Ball New Experimental Plays Festival
Chain Reactions by Trevor Allen
The Bad Math Plays by Kevin Oakes
Begging the Eclipse by Caridad Svich
2001 – 2002
Drowning Room installation by Jeff Becker, directed by Rob Melrose, text by Kevin Oakes
As You Like It by William Shakespeare
2000 – 2001
The End of the World as We Know It:
A Double Bill of Apocalyptic Plays
Vladimir Mayakovsky: A Tragedy by Vladimir Mayakovsky
Hamletmachine by Heiner Müller
The High Priest of Bad Math by Kevin Oakes, Staged Reading
Timon of Athens by William Shakespeare, Staged Reading
1999 – 2000
My Head Was a Sledgehammer by Richard Foreman