Theater

Creative Capital supports theater artists for the creation of bold, risk-taking, and genre-stretching projects—including Branden Jacobs-Jenkins, Carmelita Tropicana, Lisa Kron, Kristina Wong, Rachel Chavkin, Ethan Lipton, Heather Raffo, and Aaron Landsman, and others.

Featured Theater

Give Me Carmelita Tropicana!

Branden Jacobs-Jenkins, Carmelita Tropicana

Give Me Carmelita Tropicana!

A My Dinner With Andre-style debate with compare-and-contrast performances delivered throughout, this work touches on how art relates to history and history relates to art, updating it through the artists' personal histories.
A NASA generated visual showing water currents as they move across the globe.

Heather Raffo

The Migration Play Cycle: A New Theatrical Platform

An epic map of a play linking the world’s migration patterns to the daily transactions of our lives, it invites us to imagine a new relationship to human value by first unpacking what we value.
Wong Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest

Kristina Wong

Wong Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest

Wong Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest is a comedic multimedia solo performance about mental illness among Asian American women.
NightQueen Performance Suite

Derek McPhatter

NightQueen Performance Suite

NightQueen is an ecological, Afro-surreal performance suite that tells the story of an ensemble seeking hope in one another as their world is transformed by a global water crisis, unbridled network technologies, and resurgent fascism.
Dynasty Handbag yelling in front of a projection of the ocean.

Jibz Cameron, Sue Slagle

Titanic Depression

Using the 1997 film Titanic as a departure point, Titanic Depression addresses issues of class, gender roles, gratuitous wealth, and the environmental impact of climate change.
Vito Dieterle, Ian Riggs, Ethan Lipton, Eben Levy. Photo by HanJie Chow.

Ethan Lipton

We Are Your Robots

We Are Your Robots is a narrative song cycle in which a band of robots seeks to understand what human beings want from their machines.

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