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is a New York-based theatre company which creates new plays using the company specific devising method, . Moment Work “explores the theatrical potential of all the elements of the stage in order to create strong theatrical and dramatic narratives from the ground up. Moment Work gives us the freedom to create individual, self-contained theatrical units (Moments) and to sequence these units together into theatrical phrases that eventually become a play.” They also describe their method as “a rigorous process of research and collaboration in a laboratory environment.”

Founded in 1991, the company has produced “over twenty plays and musicals, including Gross Indecency: The Three Trials of Oscar Wilde, The Laramie Project, Doug Wright’s Pulitzer Prize-winning I Am My Own Wife, the Tony Award-winning 33 Variations, the Drama Desk Award-winning Seven Deadly Sins, and Here There Are Blueberries, winner of the The Theater J Trish Vradenburg Jewish Play Prize.” 

Their Mission:

“Tectonic Theater Project is a developmental company that creates and produces works for the stage that rigorously explore theatrical language and form. Based in New York City, we build plays from the ground up and bring new life to existing scripts on stages across the United States and around the world. Our core values are courage and risk taking, innovation, theatricality, social & political change, and egalitarianism: everyone has a voice in the creation of new work.”

Moisés Kaufman, the Artistic Director of Tectonic Theater Project, is “a Tony- and Emmy-nominated director and playwright, and recipient of the National Medal of Arts from President Obama. Kaufman has led Tectonic Theater Project since its founding in 1991, and is also a Guggenheim Fellow in Playwriting and an Obie Award and Lucille Lortel Award winner.”

 

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Published April 2025