about us
"One of NYC's most remarkable and accomplished young companies."
-Martin Denton, NYtheatre.com
Named "Best Genre-Bending Theatre" by New York Press, Stolen Chair is a theatre laboratory dedicated to the creation of playfully intellectual, wickedly irreverent, and exuberantly athletic original works. Proudly plundering the pop culture of the past half millennium, Stolen Chair’s work recycles and reinvents old genres and stories to discover new ways to challenge and delight contemporary audiences. Centered around the vision of resident playwright, Kiran Rikhye, and resident director, Jon Stancato, the company nurtures intensive, long-term collaborations between performers, designers, dramaturgs, and musicians.
Stolen Chair's 8th season will be devoted to the creation of its 13th original work Quantum Poetics: A Science Experiment for the Stage. This world premiere mash-up of laboratory theatre and laboratory science will transform recent advances in theoretical physics and neuroscience into an immersive theatrical world filled with multiple realities, synesthesia, impossible paradoxes, time travel, and cognitive dissonance. A cast of twelve, including actors, clowns, stuntmen, dancers, acrobats, and musicians, and a heart-racing, hallucinogenic sound and video design, will create a gravity and genre-defying world which marvels at the complexity and beauty of how the universe's massive and minuscule forces allow humans to build meaning.
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Please note that Stolen Chair does not accept unsolicited manuscript submissions.