Performance Lab 115 is an experimental theatre

Experimental theatre

Experimental theatre is a general term for various movements in Western theatre that began in the late 19th century as a retraction against the dominant vent governing the writing and production of dramatical menstrophy, and age in particular. The term has shifted over time as the mainstream...

 company based in New York City.

The company was founded in 2005 by Columbia University

Columbia University

Columbia University in the City of New York is a private, Ivy League university in Manhattan, New York City. Columbia is the oldest institution of higher learning in the state of New York, the fifth oldest in the United States, and one of the country's nine Colonial Colleges founded before the...

 School of Drama graduates Jeff Clarke, Rebecca Lingafelter, Shelley Gershoni and Elena Mulroney and has been a performer with the New York International Fringe Festival

New York International Fringe Festival

The New York International Fringe Festival, or FringeNYC, is a Fringe theater festival and one of the largest multi-arts events in North America. It takes place over the course of two weeks every August, spread across several neighborhoods in downtown Manhattan, notably the Lower East Side, the...

 for several theatrical seasons. At NYCFringe, they have won awards for Outstanding Playwrighting (2008), Outstanding Set (2006) and Outstanding Production (2005). The company has also won the NEA/chashama Performance Development Award and the Chocolate Factory Award for Outstanding Original Music.

Productions

• The Ring Cycle (parts 1+2) (2010)
  • Bushwick Starr
• The Ring Cycle (pt. 1) (2010)
  • Performance Space 122
    Performance Space 122
    Performance Space 122, generally known as P.S. 122, is a not-for-profit arts organization and one of the longest standing venues dedicated to contemporary performance art in New York City. Founded in 1979 in the abandoned Public School 122 building at 150 First Avenue at East 9th Street in the East...
    
    /undergroundzero (2010)
• SINK (2010)
  • Performed at chashama 217
• The Ring (A Beginning)(2010)
  • Developed at The National Theater Institute
• The Verge (2009)
  • Ontological-Hysteric Theater
    Ontological-Hysteric Theater
    The Ontological-Hysteric Theater was founded in 1968 by Richard Foreman. According to his website, his aim was-Total Theater:According to his website,-Production history:...
    
    
• Caucasian Chalk Circle (2009)
  • Performed at The Chocolate Factory, Long Island City, NY
• Artifacts of Consequence (2009)
  • Performed at The Wild Project (Electric Pear co-production)
• Mourn the Living Hector (2008)
  • The Flamboyán Theatre/FringeNYC
• The Terrible Temptation to Do Good: A Brechtian Lounge Act (2008)
  • Grace Bar/Collective:Unconscious' undergroundzero Festival
• Caucasian Chalk Circle (2008)
  • Mabou Mines
    Mabou Mines
    Mabou Mines is an avant-garde theatre company founded in 1970 and based in New York City.-History:Mabou Mines is a collaborative, avant-garde theater company based in New York City...
    
    
• Dead Letter Office (2007)
  • HERE Arts Center
    HERE Arts Center
    HERE Arts Center is a New York City based off-off broadway presenting house, founded in 1993, with two stages specializing in hybrid performance, dance, theater, multi-media and puppetry. From 1993-2009, HERE supported over 12,000 artists and served approximately 950,000 audience members...
    
    
• Dead Letter Office (Workshop) (2007)
  • chashama/Trifecta Festival of New Works
• Synesthesia

The Harris Lieberman Gallery (2007)(Electtric Pearr co-production)

• A Small Hole (2007)
  • Dance New Amsterdam/FringeNYC
• A Hush Hush Hidden Thing (2006)
  • Kraine Theatre
• God’s Waiting Room / A Hush Hush Hidden Thing (2005)
  • Merlin International Theatre, Budapest, Hungary
• God’s Waiting Room (2005)
  • NYCFringe

Organization

Artistic Directors

• Jeff Clarke (founder)
• Rebecca Lingafeleter (founder)

Company Members

• Sara Buffamanti
• Shelley Gershoni (founder)
• Rachel Jablin
• Marty Keiser
• Elena Mulroney (founder)

Resident Artists

• Liz Eckert
• Ashlin Halfnight
• Shane LeClair
• Andrew Z. Kelsey
• Beth Kurkjian
• Alice Reagan
• Ramona Thomasius
• Mark Valadez
• Meiyin Wang

External links

• Brooklyn Arts Council page