Infernal Bridegroom Productions (IBP) was a theater company located in Houston, Texas

Houston, Texas

Houston is the fourth-largest city in the United States, and the largest city in the state of Texas. According to the 2010 U.S. Census, the city had a population of 2.1 million people within an area of . Houston is the seat of Harris County and the economic center of , which is the ...

, formed in 1993 and dissolved in 2007. IBP garnered national attention when it was featured on the cover of American Theatre in September, 2002, for its original play, We Have Some Planes, by Brian Jucha, about the events of September 11

September 11, 2001 attacks

The September 11 attacks The September 11 attacks The September 11 attacks (also referred to as September 11, September 11th or 9/119/11 is pronounced "nine eleven". The slash is not part of the pronunciation...

. The theater's name is taken from a line in one of its first productions, In the Jungle of Cities by Bertolt Brecht

Bertolt Brecht

Bertolt Brecht was a German poet, playwright, and theatre director.An influential theatre practitioner of the 20th century, Brecht made equally significant contributions to dramaturgy and theatrical production, the latter particularly through the seismic impact of the tours undertaken by the...

. The line reads, "In my dreams I call him my infernal bridegroom." IBP has produced over 60 plays, many of them world premieres.

About the company

Houston, Texas

Houston, Texas

Houston is the fourth-largest city in the United States, and the largest city in the state of Texas. According to the 2010 U.S. Census, the city had a population of 2.1 million people within an area of . Houston is the seat of Harris County and the economic center of , which is the ...

' theatre district is the second largest in the United States, after New York, New York, boasting theaters of all sizes, from the LORT Alley Theatre

Alley Theatre

The Alley Theatre is a Tony Award-winning indoor theatre in Downtown Houston, Texas, and hosts two stages. The "Hubbard" is the main stage with seating for 824; the more intimate "Neuhaus" seats 310. Nine towers and open-air terraces give the Alley Theatre a castle-like quality. Inside, a staircase...

, to mid size theaters such as Stages Repertory Theatre

Stages Repertory Theatre

Stages Repertory Theatre is a theatre company in the city of Houston, Texas. It generally produces more experimental plays in a more intimate setting than the city's prestigious Alley Theatre: the Houston Chronicle calls it "the equivalent of off-Broadway in Houston".-History:Stages Repertory...

 and Main Street Theater

Main Street Theater

Main Street Theater is a theatre company in the city of Houston, Texas. It consistently produces a lively repertoire of classic and contemporary plays, and its seasons generally run throughout the entire year.-History:...

, and small nomadic theaters such as Mildred's Umbrella.

Infernal Bridegroom Productions ceased operations July 2007 due to insurmountable financial difficulties.

Founded in 1993, IBP produced 68 plays and was recognized locally and nationally for its provocative new work, its talented ensemble and its success in attracting non-traditional audiences.

The company's 2004 world premiere rock opera Speeding Motorcycle, created in collaboration with acclaimed artist and songwriter Daniel Johnston

Daniel Johnston

Daniel Dale Johnston is an American singer, songwriter, musician, and artist. Johnston was the subject of the 2006 documentary The Devil and Daniel Johnston. He currently lives in Waller, Texas....

, received favorable coverage in The New York Times

The New York Times

The New York Times is an American daily newspaper founded and continuously published in New York City since 1851. The New York Times has won 106 Pulitzer Prizes, the most of any news organization...

,http://www.nytimes.com/2006/06/14/arts/music/14spee.html Art in America

Art in America

Art in America is an illustrated monthly, international magazine concentrating on the contemporary art world, including profiles of artists and genres, updates about art movements, show reviews and event schedules. It is designed for collectors, artists, dealers, art professionals and other...

, No Depression

No Depression

No Depression may refer to:* No Depression , a bi-monthly roots and Americana music magazine and now a music website.* "No Depression in Heaven", a 1936 song popularized by the Carter Family...

 magazine, the Austin Chronicle

Austin Chronicle

The Austin Chronicle is an alternative weekly, tabloid-style newspaper published every Thursday in Austin, Texas, United States. The paper is distributed through free news-stands, often at local eateries or coffee houses frequented by its targeted demographic...

 and local media outlets. Past works also received positive coverage from American Theatre, Theatre Journal

Theatre Journal

Theatre Journal is an academic journal founded in 1949 and an official publication of . The journal is considered an international authority in the field of performing arts and features social and historical research, production reviews, and theoretical inquiries...

, Stage Directions and the Dallas Morning News.

IBP appeared regularly in the annual Houston Press

Houston Press

The Houston Press is an alternative weekly newspaper published in Houston, Texas, United States. It is headquartered in Downtown Houston....

 "Best of Houston" issue, receiving awards for Best Theater Company, New Play, Original Show, Director, Actor, Actress, Set Design, Light Design, Costume Design, Special Effects, Christmas Show and Rock and Roll Theater. And the Houston Chronicle

Houston Chronicle

The Houston Chronicle is the largest daily newspaper in Texas, USA, headquartered in the Houston Chronicle Building in Downtown Houston. , it is the ninth-largest newspaper by circulation in the United States...

 called IBP Houston's best experimental theater.

IBP enjoyed a large and loyal audience as well as regularly attracting out-of-towners that travelled to Houston specifically to see the company's work.

The company was acclaimed for its productions of rarely produced plays by Samuel Beckett

Samuel Beckett

Samuel Barclay Beckett was an Irish avant-garde novelist, playwright, theatre director, and poet. He wrote both in English and French. His work offers a bleak, tragicomic outlook on human nature, often coupled with black comedy and gallows humour.Beckett is widely regarded as among the most...

, Eugene Ionesco

Eugène Ionesco

Eugène Ionesco was a Romanian and French playwright and dramatist, and one of the foremost playwrights of the Theatre of the Absurd...

, Bertolt Brecht

Bertolt Brecht

Bertolt Brecht was a German poet, playwright, and theatre director.An influential theatre practitioner of the 20th century, Brecht made equally significant contributions to dramaturgy and theatrical production, the latter particularly through the seismic impact of the tours undertaken by the...

, Georg Büchner

Georg Büchner

Karl Georg Büchner was a German dramatist and writer of poetry and prose. He was the brother of physician and philosopher Ludwig Büchner. Büchner's talent is generally held in great esteem in Germany...

, Jean Genet

Jean Genet

Jean Genet was a prominent and controversial French novelist, playwright, poet, essayist, and political activist. Early in his life he was a vagabond and petty criminal, but later took to writing...

, Anton Chekhov

Anton Chekhov

Anton Pavlovich Chekhov was a Russian physician, dramatist and author who is considered to be among the greatest writers of short stories in history. His career as a dramatist produced four classics and his best short stories are held in high esteem by writers and critics...

, Sam Shepard

Sam Shepard

Sam Shepard is an American playwright, actor, and television and film director. He is the author of several books of short stories, essays, and memoirs, and received the Pulitzer Prize for Drama in 1979 for his play Buried Child...

 and David Mamet

David Mamet

David Alan Mamet is an American playwright, essayist, screenwriter and film director.Best known as a playwright, Mamet won a Pulitzer Prize and received a Tony nomination for Glengarry Glen Ross . He also received a Tony nomination for Speed-the-Plow . As a screenwriter, he received Oscar...

 and was the first to introduce Houston audiences to the works of playwrights Suzan-Lori Parks

Suzan-Lori Parks

Suzan-Lori Parks is an African American playwright and screenwriter. She received the MacArthur Foundation "Genius" Grant in 2001, and the 2002 Pulitzer Prize for Drama for her play, Topdog/Underdog.-Early years:...

, Maria Irene Fornes

María Irene Fornés

María Irene Fornés is a Cuban-American avant garde playwright and director who is associated with the establishment of the Off-off-Broadway movement in the 1960s. Fornes themes focused on poverty and feminism. In 1965, she won her first Obie Award for Promenade and her second for The Successful...

, Sarah Kane

Sarah Kane

Sarah Kane was an English playwright. Her plays deal with themes of redemptive love, sexual desire, pain, torture — both physical and psychological — and death. They are characterised by a poetic intensity, pared-down language, exploration of theatrical form and, in her earlier work, the use of...

, Heiner Müller

Heiner Müller

Heiner Müller was a German dramatist, poet, writer, essayist and theatre director. Described as "the theatre's greatest living poet" since Samuel Beckett, Müller is arguably the most important German dramatist of the 20th century after Bertolt Brecht...

, Wallace Shawn

Wallace Shawn

Wallace Michael Shawn , sometimes credited as Wally Shawn, is an American stand-up comedian, actor, writer, author, voice artist, and intellectual. His best-known film roles include Wally Shawn in My Dinner with Andre , Vizzini in The Princess Bride , and debate teacher Mr...

, Charles Mee, Richard Foreman

Richard Foreman

Richard Foreman is an American playwright and avant-garde theater pioneer. He is the founder of the Ontological-Hysteric Theater.-Life :...

, Mac Wellman

Mac Wellman

Mac Wellman is an American playwright, author, and poet. Wellman is best known for his experimental work in the theater which rebels against theatrical conventions, often abandoning such traditional elements as plot and character altogether...

 and Bernard-Marie Koltès

Bernard-Marie Koltès

Bernard-Marie Koltès was a French playwright and director.-Life:Born in 1948 to a middle-class family in Metz, his life was violent and anchored in revolt. He tried his hand at writing at a very young age but later renounced it, and didn't take to the stage until the age of twenty...

. IBP also attracted national attention for the theatrical premiere of A Soap Opera by Ray Davies

Ray Davies

Ray Davies, CBE is an English rock musician. He is best known as lead singer and songwriter for the Kinks, which he led with his younger brother, Dave...

 and The Kinks

The Kinks

The Kinks were an English rock band formed in Muswell Hill, North London, by brothers Ray and Dave Davies in 1964. Categorised in the United States as a British Invasion band, The Kinks are recognised as one of the most important and influential rock acts of the era. Their music was influenced by a...

 and was lauded for its hit production of Broadway musical Guys and Dolls.

But IBP was perhaps best known for the new work it created. Highlights included Fucking A, commissioned by IBP and DiverseWorks Artspace and written and directed by Pulitzer Prize

Pulitzer Prize

The Pulitzer Prize is a U.S. award for achievements in newspaper and online journalism, literature and musical composition. It was established by American publisher Joseph Pulitzer and is administered by Columbia University in New York City...

 winner Suzan-Lori Parks; We Have Some Planes and Last Rites, conceived and directed by renowned theater artist Brian Jucha; Hide Town, commissioned by the NEA and TCG and written by Lisa D'Amour

Lisa D'Amour

Lisa D'Amour is an Obie Award winning playwright, performer, and former Carnival Queen from New Orleans who resides in New York. Ms. D'Amour is an alumnus of New Dramatists....

; Speeding Motorcycle, commissioned by the Rockefeller Foundation

Rockefeller Foundation

The Rockefeller Foundation is a prominent philanthropic organization and private foundation based at 420 Fifth Avenue, New York City. The preeminent institution established by the six-generation Rockefeller family, it was founded by John D. Rockefeller , along with his son John D. Rockefeller, Jr...

 and conceived and directed by IBP founding artistic director Jason Nodler in collaboration with Daniel Johnston and the IBP company; Nodler's original plays In the Under Thunderloo, King Ubu is King and Meatbar; company member Troy Schulze's Me-sci-ah, Jerry's World (adapted from the radio shows of cult figure Joe Frank

Joe Frank

Joe Frank is an American radio personality, known best for his often philosophical, humorous, surrealist, and sometimes absurd monologues and radio dramas.-Early life:...

) and Actual Air (adapted from the poetry and music of Silver Jews

Silver Jews

Silver Jews was an indie rock band from New York City, formed in 1989 by David Berman along with Pavement's Stephen Malkmus and Bob Nastanovich. Berman remained throughout and was the only constant member. During the last few albums, Cassie Berman became a regular member of the band...

 frontman David Berman); founding company member Tamarie Cooper's 20 Love Songs and the wildly popular Tamalalia series created and directed by Cooper.

Although IBP was in residence at the legendary punk club The Axiom for five years, it spent nine years as a homeless company, performing in warehouses, bars, restaurants, aboard a moving school bus, in an abandoned outdoor shopping center and occasionally in traditional theater spaces such as Stages Repertory Theatre and DiverseWorks.

Music composed and recorded by IBP's resident orchestra, under the direction of former artistic director Anthony Barilla, has enjoyed regular radio play on college stations around the country and on NPR's This American Life

This American Life

This American Life is a weekly hour-long radio program produced by WBEZ and hosted by Ira Glass. It is distributed by Public Radio International on PRI affiliate stations and is also available as a free weekly podcast. Primarily a journalistic non-fiction program, it has also featured essays,...

.

IBP band

Infernal Bridegroom Productions also had a resident orchestra which performed live music during performances, and also recorded original music for IBP. Past IBP band members included:

• Chris Bakos
• Tony Barilla
• Wayne Barnhill
• Kevin Blessington
• John Duboise
• Ryan Goodland

• Cathy Power
• Keith Reynolds
• Kirk Suddreath
• Mike Switzer
• Cary Winscott

1994

• In the Jungle of Cities by Bertolt Brecht
  Bertolt Brecht
  Bertolt Brecht was a German poet, playwright, and theatre director.An influential theatre practitioner of the 20th century, Brecht made equally significant contributions to dramaturgy and theatrical production, the latter particularly through the seismic impact of the tours undertaken by the...
  
  
• Rhinoceros by Eugène Ionesco
  Eugène Ionesco
  Eugène Ionesco was a Romanian and French playwright and dramatist, and one of the foremost playwrights of the Theatre of the Absurd...
  
  

1995

• The Balcony
  The Balcony
  The Balcony is a play by the French dramatist Jean Genet. Since Peter Zadek directed its first production at the Arts Theatre Club in London in 1957, the play has attracted many of the greatest directors of the 20th century, including Peter Brook, Erwin Piscator, Roger Blin, Giorgio Strehler, and...
  
  by Jean Genet
  Jean Genet
  Jean Genet was a prominent and controversial French novelist, playwright, poet, essayist, and political activist. Early in his life he was a vagabond and petty criminal, but later took to writing...
  
  
• Endgame
  Endgame (play)
  Endgame, by Samuel Beckett, is a one-act play with four characters, written in a style associated with the Theatre of the Absurd. It was originally written in French ; as was his custom, Beckett himself translated it into English. The play was first performed in a French-language production at the...
  
  by Samuel Beckett
  Samuel Beckett
  Samuel Barclay Beckett was an Irish avant-garde novelist, playwright, theatre director, and poet. He wrote both in English and French. His work offers a bleak, tragicomic outlook on human nature, often coupled with black comedy and gallows humour.Beckett is widely regarded as among the most...
  
  
• Marat/Sade
  Marat/Sade
  The Persecution and Assassination of Jean-Paul Marat as Performed by the Inmates of the Asylum of Charenton Under the Direction of the Marquis de Sade , almost invariably shortened to Marat/Sade, is a 1963 play by Peter Weiss...
  
  by Peter Weiss
  Peter Weiss
  Peter Ulrich Weiss was a German writer, painter, and artist of adopted Swedish nationality. He is particularly known for his plays Marat/Sade and The Investigation and his novel The Aesthetics of Resistance....
  
  
• MUD by Maria Irene Fornes
  María Irene Fornés
  María Irene Fornés is a Cuban-American avant garde playwright and director who is associated with the establishment of the Off-off-Broadway movement in the 1960s. Fornes themes focused on poverty and feminism. In 1965, she won her first Obie Award for Promenade and her second for The Successful...
  
  

1996

• Othello
  Othello
  The Tragedy of Othello, the Moor of Venice is a tragedy by William Shakespeare, believed to have been written in approximately 1603, and based on the Italian short story "Un Capitano Moro" by Cinthio, a disciple of Boccaccio, first published in 1565...
  
  by William Shakespeare
  William Shakespeare
  William Shakespeare was an English poet and playwright, widely regarded as the greatest writer in the English language and the world's pre-eminent dramatist. He is often called England's national poet and the "Bard of Avon"...
  
  
• Suicide in B Flat
  Suicide in B Flat
  -Production history:Suicide in B♭ was first produced at the Yale Repertory Theater in New Haven, CT, on 15 October 1976. The cast was as follows:*Pianist - Lawrence Wolf*Pablo - Clifford David*Louis - Joe Grifasi*Petrone - William Hickey...
  
  by Sam Shepard
  Sam Shepard
  Sam Shepard is an American playwright, actor, and television and film director. He is the author of several books of short stories, essays, and memoirs, and received the Pulitzer Prize for Drama in 1979 for his play Buried Child...
  
  
• Samuel's Major Problems by Richard Foreman
• Woyzeck
  Woyzeck
  Woyzeck is a stage play written by Georg Büchner. He left the work incomplete at his death, but it has been variously and posthumously "finished" by a variety of authors, editors and translators. Woyzeck has become one of the most performed and influential plays in the German theatre...
  
  by George Büchner
• Guys and Dolls by Frank Loesser
  Frank Loesser
  Frank Henry Loesser was an American songwriter who wrote the lyrics and scores to the Broadway hits Guys and Dolls and How To Succeed In Business Without Really Trying, among others. He won separate Tony Awards for the music and lyrics in both shows, as well as sharing the Pulitzer Prize for...
  
   / Abe Burrows
  Abe Burrows
  Abe Burrows was a Tony and Pulitzer-winning American humorist, author, and director for radio and the stage.-Early years:...
  
  
• Eddie Goes to Poetry City by Richard Foreman
• The Future is in Eggs by Eugène Ionesco
  Eugène Ionesco
  Eugène Ionesco was a Romanian and French playwright and dramatist, and one of the foremost playwrights of the Theatre of the Absurd...
  
  

1997

• The Cherry Orchard
  The Cherry Orchard
  The Cherry Orchard is Russian playwright Anton Chekhov's last play. It premiered at the Moscow Art Theatre 17 January 1904 in a production directed by Constantin Stanislavski. Chekhov intended this play as a comedy and it does contain some elements of farce; however, Stanislavski insisted on...
  
  by Anton Chekhov
  Anton Chekhov
  Anton Pavlovich Chekhov was a Russian physician, dramatist and author who is considered to be among the greatest writers of short stories in history. His career as a dramatist produced four classics and his best short stories are held in high esteem by writers and critics...
  
  
• Waiting for Godot
  Waiting for Godot
  Waiting for Godot is an absurdist play by Samuel Beckett, in which two characters, Vladimir and Estragon, wait endlessly and in vain for someone named Godot to arrive. Godot's absence, as well as numerous other aspects of the play, have led to many different interpretations since the play's...
  
  by Samuel Beckett
• Tamalalia 2! (World Premiere) by Tamarie Cooper
• Quartet by Heiner Müller
  Heiner Müller
  Heiner Müller was a German dramatist, poet, writer, essayist and theatre director. Described as "the theatre's greatest living poet" since Samuel Beckett, Müller is arguably the most important German dramatist of the 20th century after Bertolt Brecht...
  
  
• Cowboy Mouth
  Cowboy Mouth (play)
  Cowboy Mouth is a 1971 play, written and performed by Sam Shepard and Patti Smith, and directed by Robert Glaudini.-Plot:The play is about Cavale and Slim, two absolute messes living in sin together. Unable to move, yet at complete unrest, Slim swings from blaming Cavale for the disaster that is...
  
  by Sam Shepard and Patti Smith
  Patti Smith
  Patricia Lee "Patti" Smith is an American singer-songwriter, poet and visual artist, who became a highly influential component of the New York City punk rock movement with her 1975 debut album Horses....
  
  
• Camino Real
  Camino Real (play)
  Camino Real is a 1953 play by Tennessee Williams. In the introduction to the Penguin edition of the play, Williams directs the reader to use the Anglicized pronunciation "Cá-mino Réal." The play takes its title from its setting, alluded to El Camino Real, a dead-end place in a Spanish-speaking town...
  
  by Tennessee Williams
  Tennessee Williams
  Thomas Lanier "Tennessee" Williams III was an American writer who worked principally as a playwright in the American theater. He also wrote short stories, novels, poetry, essays, screenplays and a volume of memoirs...
  
  
• Last Rites (World Premiere) by Brian Jucha

1998

• Threepenny Opera by Bertolt Brecht
  Bertolt Brecht
  Bertolt Brecht was a German poet, playwright, and theatre director.An influential theatre practitioner of the 20th century, Brecht made equally significant contributions to dramaturgy and theatrical production, the latter particularly through the seismic impact of the tours undertaken by the...
  
   / Kurt Weill
  Kurt Weill
  Kurt Julian Weill was a German-Jewish composer, active from the 1920s, and in his later years in the United States. He was a leading composer for the stage who was best known for his fruitful collaborations with Bertolt Brecht...
  
  
• In The Jungle of Cities by Bertolt Brecht
• Tamalalia 3: The Cocktail Party (World Premiere) by Tamarie Cooper
• Harm's Way by Mac Wellman
  Mac Wellman
  Mac Wellman is an American playwright, author, and poet. Wellman is best known for his experimental work in the theater which rebels against theatrical conventions, often abandoning such traditional elements as plot and character altogether...
  
  
• King Ubu is King (World Premiere) by Jason Nodler

1999

• Marie and Bruce by Wallace Shawn
  Wallace Shawn
  Wallace Michael Shawn , sometimes credited as Wally Shawn, is an American stand-up comedian, actor, writer, author, voice artist, and intellectual. His best-known film roles include Wally Shawn in My Dinner with Andre , Vizzini in The Princess Bride , and debate teacher Mr...
  
  
• Tamalalia 4: The Campout (World Premiere) by Tamarie Cooper
• Roberto Zucco by Bernard-Marie Koltès
• Edmond by David Mamet
  David Mamet
  David Alan Mamet is an American playwright, essayist, screenwriter and film director.Best known as a playwright, Mamet won a Pulitzer Prize and received a Tony nomination for Glengarry Glen Ross . He also received a Tony nomination for Speed-the-Plow . As a screenwriter, he received Oscar...
  
  

2000

• Fucking A (World Premiere) by Suzan-Lori Parks
  Suzan-Lori Parks
  Suzan-Lori Parks is an African American playwright and screenwriter. She received the MacArthur Foundation "Genius" Grant in 2001, and the 2002 Pulitzer Prize for Drama for her play, Topdog/Underdog.-Early years:...
  
  
• Tamalalia 2000: The Time Machine (World Premiere) by Tamarie Cooper
• The Danube by Maria Irene Fornes
  María Irene Fornés
  María Irene Fornés is a Cuban-American avant garde playwright and director who is associated with the establishment of the Off-off-Broadway movement in the 1960s. Fornes themes focused on poverty and feminism. In 1965, she won her first Obie Award for Promenade and her second for The Successful...
  
  
• Happy Days
  Happy Days (play)
  Happy Days is a play in two acts, written in English, by Samuel Beckett. He began the play on 8 October 1960 and it was completed on 14 May 1961. Beckett finished the translation into French by November 1962 but amended the title...
  
  by Samuel Beckett

2001

• Action and Chicago by Sam Shepard
• Tamalalia 6 (World Premiere) by Tamarie Cooper
• MUD by Maria Irene Fornes

2002

• In the Under Thunderloo by Jason Nodler
• We Have Some Planes (World Premiere) by Brian Jucha
• Tamalalia 7: The Love Show (World Premiere) by Tamarie Cooper
• Phaedra's Love by Sarah Kane
  Sarah Kane
  Sarah Kane was an English playwright. Her plays deal with themes of redemptive love, sexual desire, pain, torture — both physical and psychological — and death. They are characterised by a poetic intensity, pared-down language, exploration of theatrical form and, in her earlier work, the use of...
  
  
• A Soap Opera by The Kinks
  The Kinks
  The Kinks were an English rock band formed in Muswell Hill, North London, by brothers Ray and Dave Davies in 1964. Categorised in the United States as a British Invasion band, The Kinks are recognised as one of the most important and influential rock acts of the era. Their music was influenced by a...
  
  

2003

• Actual Air (world premiere) adapted from the poetry of David Berman by Troy Schulze
• The Noblest of Drugs (World Premiere) by Joel Orr
• Meat/BAR (World Premiere) by Jason Nodler
• Tamalalia 8 (World Premiere) by Tamarie Cooper
• Jerry's World (World Premiere) adapted from the radio programs of Joe Frank
  Joe Frank
  Joe Frank is an American radio personality, known best for his often philosophical, humorous, surrealist, and sometimes absurd monologues and radio dramas.-Early life:...
  
   by Troy Schulze
• Rhinoceros by Eugène Ionesco

2004

• Symphony of Rats by Richard Foreman
• The Hotel Play by Wallace Shawn
  Wallace Shawn
  Wallace Michael Shawn , sometimes credited as Wally Shawn, is an American stand-up comedian, actor, writer, author, voice artist, and intellectual. His best-known film roles include Wally Shawn in My Dinner with Andre , Vizzini in The Princess Bride , and debate teacher Mr...
  
  
• Tamalalia 9 (World Premiere) by Tamarie Cooper
• Trappakeepa & Girth And Topical by Lindsay Kayser: a co-production with Gypsy Baby Theater
• Me-sci-ah (World Premiere) by Troy Schulze
• BAAL by Bertolt Brecht

2005

• Me-sci-ah (The Second Coming) by Troy Schulze
• Medea
  Medea
  Medea is a woman in Greek mythology. She was the daughter of King Aeëtes of Colchis, niece of Circe, granddaughter of the sun god Helios, and later wife to the hero Jason, with whom she had two children, Mermeros and Pheres. In Euripides's play Medea, Jason leaves Medea when Creon, king of...
  
  by Euripides
  Euripides
  Euripides was one of the three great tragedians of classical Athens, the other two being Aeschylus and Sophocles. Some ancient scholars attributed ninety-five plays to him but according to the Suda it was ninety-two at most...
  
  , adapted by Charlie Scott
  Charlie Scott
  Charles Thomas Scott is an American former professional basketball player. He played two seasons in the now-defunct American Basketball Association and eight seasons in the National Basketball Association .A 6'5" guard/forward from the Laurinburg Institute...
  
  
• Night Just Before the Forests by Bernard-Marie Koltés
  Bernard-Marie Koltès
  Bernard-Marie Koltès was a French playwright and director.-Life:Born in 1948 to a middle-class family in Metz, his life was violent and anchored in revolt. He tried his hand at writing at a very young age but later renounced it, and didn't take to the stage until the age of twenty...
  
  
• Tamalalia X: The Createst Hits Show (World Premiere) by Tamarie Cooper
• What You've Done by Aaron Landsman: a co-production with DiverseWorks Artspace and Project Row Houses
• Full Circle by Charles L. Mee
  Charles L. Mee
  Charles L. Mee is an American playwright, historian and author known for his collage-like style of playwriting, which makes use of radical reconstructions of found texts.-Early Life and Early Career:...
  
  

2006

• Uncle Vanya
  Uncle Vanya
  Uncle Vanya is a play by the Russian playwright Anton Chekhov. It was first published in 1897 and received its Moscow première in 1899 in a production by the Moscow Art Theatre, under the direction of Konstantin Stanislavski....
  
  by Anton Chekhov
• Speeding Motorcycle by Daniel Johnston, adapted & directed by Jason Nodler
• Microscope Maintenance & Repair by Lindsay Kayser
• Speeding Motorcycle by Daniel Johnston, adapted & directed by Jason Nodler (encore)
• Hide Town by Lisa D'Amour
  Lisa D'Amour
  Lisa D'Amour is an Obie Award winning playwright, performer, and former Carnival Queen from New Orleans who resides in New York. Ms. D'Amour is an alumnus of New Dramatists....
  
  

2007

• 365 Days/365 Plays by Suzan Lori-Parks
• 20 Love Songs (World Premier) by Tamarie Cooper

2000

• Houston Press: Best Designer: Devlin Browning, for Edmond
• Houston Press: Best Director: Jason Nodler for Edmond
• Houston Press: Best Christmas Show: Edmond

2002

• Houston Press: Best Director: Brian Jucha for We Have Some Planes
• Houston Press: Best Actress (Readers' Choice): Tamarie Cooper
• Houston Press: Best Actor (Readers' Choice): Troy Schulze
• Houston Press: Best Original Show: We Have Some Planes

2004

• Houston Chronicle
  Houston Chronicle
  The Houston Chronicle is the largest daily newspaper in Texas, USA, headquartered in the Houston Chronicle Building in Downtown Houston. , it is the ninth-largest newspaper by circulation in the United States...
  
  : Best Experimental Theater
• Houston Press: Best Set Design: Symphony of Rats
• Houston Press: Best Original Show: Jerry's World

2005

• Houston Chronicle
  Houston Chronicle
  The Houston Chronicle is the largest daily newspaper in Texas, USA, headquartered in the Houston Chronicle Building in Downtown Houston. , it is the ninth-largest newspaper by circulation in the United States...
  
  : Best Rebel with a Cause: Troy Schulze
• Houston Press: Best Original Show: Tamalalia X: The Greatest Hist Show
• Houston Press: Best Performance Space: The Axiom
• Houston Press: Best Director: Charlie Scott
  Charlie Scott
  Charles Thomas Scott is an American former professional basketball player. He played two seasons in the now-defunct American Basketball Association and eight seasons in the National Basketball Association .A 6'5" guard/forward from the Laurinburg Institute...
  
  for Medea
• Houston Press: Best Production: Medea