Mission

The Workshop Theater's mission is to inspire, sustain, explore, and amplify the creation of new theatrical stories, and to connect those stories to audiences.

The Workshop Theater is an artistic hub for diverse theatermakers … welcoming, creating, developing, and producing unheard theatrical stories.  We believe that sharing the singular vision of theatermakers creates and encourages conversations for the multicultural 21st century audience we are.  By focusing on a singular viewpoint of the world we can imagine it in a different way.  We look for stories that frame questions in a unique way...a fresh perspective, a way of understanding the world that refreshes or revisits familiar stories or narratives, or explores theatrical forms in a way we haven’t encountered.

The Workshop Theater operates on the unceded land of the Lenape peoples on the island of Manhattan (Mannahatta) in Lenapehoking, the Lenape Homeland. 

We acknowledge the brutal history of this stolen land and the displacement and dispossession of its Indigenous people. We also acknowledge that after there were stolen lands, there were stolen people. We honor the generations of displaced and enslaved people that built, and continue to build, the country that we occupy.

We are also gathered together in a virtual space. We encourage you to consider the legacies of colonization embedded within the technology and structures we use and to acknowledge its disproportionate impact on communities of color and Indigenous peoples worldwide.

We invite you to join us in acknowledging all of this as well as our shared responsibility; to consider our way forward in reconciliation, decolonization, anti-racism and allyship. We commit ourselves to the daily practice of pursuing this work.