Fiasco Theater
Fiasco Theater (Co-Producer) is an ensemble theater company based in NYC that offers dynamic, joyful, actor-driven productions, and the highest quality, accessible, and affordable training for emerging artists. Fiasco produces annual programming by developing shows through GroundWork, our internal development series, as well as year-round readings and workshops that are open to the public; including the workshop production initiative Without A Net (WAN), which bravely stages a production for audiences with brief rehearsal and minimal resources. Partner theaters in NYC have included Classic Stage Co, TFANA, New Victory, and at Roundabout Theatre where Fiasco serves as the first-ever Company in Residence. Fiasco training programs offer emerging artists the chance to train in Fiasco’s joy-based, actor-centered approach to theater-making.
Fiasco’s first production, Cymbeline, staged in a downtown NYC loft in 2009, was a run-away success: it was presented Off-Broadway twice, for nearly 200 performances and honored with the 2012 Off-Broadway Alliance Award for best revival. Fiasco’s Into the Woods garnered another Off-Broadway Alliance Award, as well as the 2015 Lucille Lortel Award for Best Revival. The national tour of Into the Woods received the Helen Hayes Award for Outstanding Visiting Production and LA Drama Critics Circle Award for Best Direction and Best Ensemble. Cymbeline, Two Gentlemen of Verona, Measure for Measure and Into the Woods have all been New York Times Critics’ Picks. Merrily We Roll Along (2019), The Knight of the Burning Pestle (2023) and Pericles (2024) were collectively nominated for four Drama Desk awards, two Off-Broadway Alliance awards, and a Lortel Award. Fiasco’s work has been experienced by over 200,000 audience members in New York City and around the country. The New York Times has called Fiasco “a force to reckon with in the American theater.”
Fiasco has been commissioned by the Old Globe and created a podcast of Aditi Brennan Kapil’s Measure for Measure in collaboration with Next Chapter Podcasts. They have been in residence with NYU-Gallatin, TFANA, New Victory Labworks, Duke University, Marquette University and LSU and developed work with the Colorado New Play Festival, Sundance Theatre Lab, the Orchard Project, SPACE on Ryder Farm and the Shakespeare Society.