COMPOUND DRAMA

In one ear. . .

Translation, manipulation, and the game of telephone. This performance highlights the documentary process. Audience members may share small truths in our interview booth, watch as we edit their video, and confront the produced version of themselves projected for all to see.

The Working Tuesdays Fellowship is an independent documentary production house that amplifies untold Texas stories, built on pillars of ethical, radically-inclusive filmmaking.

PETRIFICATIONOLOGY — a Lecture

Nestled between the study of Geology (the study of rocks) and Biology (the study of the living) is the small and perennially underfunded sub-field of Petrificationology: the study of the living that have been turned to stone.

Emma Watkins is a playwright from New Jersey. 

s t a s i s — floral installation

s t a s i s  is an interdisciplinary container for the steady tending to the rare and rapid bursts we require for revolutions internally and collectively.

chained vessel made by Grayson Hunt

black vessel made by Kate Taylor 

gratitude to Diana Welch at Mother of God Studio

Kate Taylor is a wandering wonder sponge freak playing in that good patch of light, keeping hands in the dirt and head out of the sand. She spins plates as producer, performer, floral designer (@kabloomin), and serves as Salvage Vanguard Artistic Director and guest curator & associate producer at Fusebox.

Car Camping — Automobile Drama, Installation 

Part auto drama, part audio drama, and entirely an automobile drama, this 15-minute piece unfolds over the car radio, turning the vehicle into a time capsule and a confessional. Car Camping is part of a longer series of autobiographical stories that cut through childhood car rides with parents—equal parts tender, tense, and claustrophobic.

Robin Grace Soto is a teaching artist in Austin, Texas and a member of the Mishpocha Woods Compound. 

Charlie Sharpe, Kira Small, Carly Geary & Jake Aigner

Furry Play is a short play about furries and love.

Charlie Sharpe is a writer from Austin, TX.

Emily — 30-minute performance

Emily is an AI. Emily is a poet. Emily stole my insta. 

Malena Pennycook makes new theater and helps others do the same. EMILY is created in collaboration with Nikolai Mishler. 

THE POSTCARD PEDDLER — a character installation 

The Postcard Peddler is a lonely individual lost in time, just trying to find their way. Can you help?

Kristen Osborn is a storyteller on a mission to nurture human connections, big and small. 

Ninth Kingdom

Ninth Kingdom is a costume-based performance that offers the body and its vestment as a devotional medium. The piece attempts to reconcile the corporeal and the spiritual — the former desperate, the latter unforgiving — and there is no compromise or exaltation.

Miles Nguyen is a garment designer, artist, and musician born and raised in Austin, Texas. Their work is often improvisational and rooted in material, transforming found textiles and fragments into pieces that play in queerness, tension, and history.

AROUND TOWN –spoken comic performance

AROUND TOWN is an ongoing comic series centering on a group of young 20-somethings navigating life, love, and friendship in a mid-sized city. 

Sonia Margolin is a graphic designer and illustrator with a love for comics and sequential art. Her comics anthology, AROUND TOWN, was self-published in 2023 and she has read aloud selections from it and more recent work at various local events.

IF TREES COULD TALK — Reactive Light Installation 

If trees were to talk, they would talk at night. When daylight work is done and only respiration remains, human and oak breathe in parallel, singing the same carbon tunes. This piece turns that invisible exchange into sound hi and light, a shared language spoken in the dark.

Cathy Le is an Austin based media artist and software engineer who uses projection, real time video, and code to turn ordinary spaces into responsive environments. Her work explores how technology observes and translates human presence, inviting people to notice the moment they become part of the system they are watching.

Recommended for You — 30-minute audiovisual performance

This project is a devised audiovisual work with performance elements. The artists have pored over algorithm-attuned content and archived a few important pieces, as well as a few of our own creations. Our actors will interpret our prepared feed live, and Vivian and I will provide live narration using text to speech voice software.

Our current practice is concerned with the interpretation of social media content through artistic language. We are also interested in the proliferation of bot generated content and dead internet theory. We are addicted to placing parlays on Kalshi, as we are fascinated with the hyper monetizing of differences in opinion and even subtle changes in patterns of speech. Though we can’t set up our chance-based payment model at this wonderful theater festival, we hope to win over a few folks to our cause using charming interpretations of mass produced internet content.

Tlatelolco ’68 is a democratic docu-drama that asks audiences to give voice to a tapestry of oral histories, news reports, and declassified documents that piece together one of the darkest chapters in modern Mexican history: the massacre of hundreds of peaceful protesters ahead of the 1968 Olympics. 

Demian Chavez Galvan is a theatremaker from the U.S.—Mexico Borderlands. They are the Artistic Director of Teatro Sin Fronteras, a company dedicated to celebrating the Mexican-American experience on the stage. Their work has been seen throughout the Southwest.

Patti Boo Rae — a western musical extravagance

Patti Boo Rae makes and presents narrative cabaret and gig theater across the UK as Patti Boo Productions. Recent credits include ‘Little Miss Christmas’ (Southwark Playhouse), a holiday variety show in the form of a beauty pageant; and BOOTCUT (UK Tour), a country-western gig show about trans rights in Texas. She is currently developing a documentary cabaret about the milk lobby. 

Known to her small but loyal fanbase as the rootinest tootinest cowgirl east of the Atlantic, Patti started performing in Glasgow before making her way down to London. Wherever she goes, she dazzles audiences with her unique brand of cuntry-western cabaret – sometimes on her own, and sometimes as the front woman of Patti Boo and the Do-Gooders. This is her first time performing in her home state of Texas. 

Dead Dog Bridge — the true and untold story of Crab the dog from Shakespeare’s Two Gentlemen of Verona.

Zack Fine is an actor, director, playwright, and teacher. As an actor, he has worked on and off Broadway and in many regional theatres nationwide.  As a writer and director his work has been developed around the country. He is currently a professor of acting at University of Texas at Austin.

CONFIDENCE LAZZI 1: THE AUDITION

This piece is a sequence of calculated digressions exploring the hell and hilarity of trying out for a part.

Elizabeth Doss is an Austin native who writes and makes theatre. She’s got an MFA in playwriting from UT Austin, and she’s the co-artistic director of the tiny theatre company, paper chairs.

Project Time: A bedtime story

Conceived long ago as a DIY musical featuring singing, dancing crafters in an abandoned styrofoam shopping mall. But it isn’t that, exactly. Performed, with music, at breakneck speed, by the author, Patti Boo Rae, Shelly Leuzinger and 4 puppet. 

Robin Chotzinoff was general contractor for the Mishpocha Compound, where she lives, makes stuff and makes stuff up. Dear Dickies, her one-woman slide show, opens at the Hyde Park Theatre June 18.

The Heron, The Dancer, and The Girl

A waterside reflection.

Pearl Bhatnagar uses dance and storytelling to create live theater. 

Pearl devised this work in process with artist Taryn Lavery. The Heron is played by Allysen Hooks.

Mi Casa Corp Training

Join a team of brand consultants and thought leaders here to support Mi Casa as it seeks to reinvigorate its brand.

Abe is an average writer who once helped lead his seventh grade basketball team to a (mostly) undefeated season.

Gus: Gus is an honorary resident of Mishpocha Woods, a history teacher, and a whiz at google slides.