En Garde Arts

We can’t wait to Monday December 11.
We are hosting our Gala and giving the Change Agent Award to two fantastic humans: Jessica Hecht and Bill Martin.

We will also see the amazing performances of a wonderful array of artists.

Visit our website for more information.

WORK IN PROGRESS ALERT! November 13!
2023 Joan D. Firestone Awardee, Kristina Wong and Kristina Wong: .
She will share stories and slides of her work as a food bank influencer in Los Angeles, the Navajo Nation and beyond. Peppered with Karaoke songs with her original lyrics, Kristina will help us to look at the future of emergency food. If food banks were originally a stop gap for a temporary crisis and now have become a permanent part of American survival, does this mean we are in a perpetual state of crisis?

We will also witness the Award Ceremony to the 2024 awardee: Creator, Director Taibi Magar
She is the Co-Artistic Director of the Philadelphia Theatre Company. This award will provide her with the resources to begin work on her newest project, Sk’aliCh’elh-tenaut, a riveting story about a whale violently captured by the Miami Seaquarium who died in captivity despite a decades long battle by the Lumi Nation to bring her home. 

The committee choosing the recipient consisted of Kim Bendheim, Linda Chapman, Joan D. Firestone, David Henry Hwang, Lynn Nottage, and Kristina Wong.

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(free) tix in Bio!

Amigos! There are only 3 performances left of Helen. Do not miss this amazing group of artists creating wonderful theatre!
Link for tix in Bio 🥰

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In love with Helen.

Helen.

With top-speed language, irreverent humor and dynamic physicality, Helen. is a story you know told in a way that you don’t. A wild adventure of paths crossing – of mothers and myths and memories and monsters – Caitlin George’s new play takes you on a journey whose experience is greater than the sum of its parts. Helen. invites you to leap into the unknown, and revel in the unexpected.

Featured in The New York Times and Vulture as must-see theatre in NYC this fall!

At until October 29.
See you there!

En Garde Arts Reset, reimagine, reinvent. Theatre is dependent on innovative storytelling expressed in a myriad of

Thank you to John Soltes of Hollywood Soapbox for talking with playwright Caitlin George about Helen.!
Helen. playing at La MaMa Downstairs till October 29.
Directed by
Tickets in bio!
Presented by in association with
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Meet our Cast! What a wonderful ensemble to bring to life the world of Helen.

Featured in The New York Times and Vulture as must-see theatre in NYC this fall!

Previews start this Friday and we hope you come see the work of this amazing group of artists!
Sending Love ❤️

Meet our Cast! What a wonderful ensemble to bring to life the world of Helen.

Featured in The New York Times and Vulture as must-see theatre in NYC this fall!

Previews start this Friday and we hope you come around to see the wonderful work of this very talented group of artists!
Sending love ❤️

En Garde Arts presents: Charles! 🔥🔥

He is our new Associate Producer. we are THRILLED to have you in the team!

“Hello, everyone! I'm Charles Jackson Jr., the Associate Producer at En Garde Arts. I was born and raised in Fort Worth, Texas. I am a producer, director, playwright, and actor committed to producing new works that give a voice to underrepresented communities. I love going to the movies with my wife, discovering gospel undertones in nonreligious songs, and talking about the excellence of Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind. I am excited to join the En Garde Arts team and help foster new works by bold artists.”

Friends, you can’t miss this. Helen.
By the hot young international company , written by Caitlin George and directed by .

Tix are available (Link in our Bio). Runs from Oct 13 to Oct 29.

In the words of , „this piece is about kick ass women defying convention“.

With top-speed language, irreverent humor and dynamic physicality, Helen. is a story you know told in a way that you don’t. It’s a funny, feminist riff on a familiar myth. A wild adventure of paths crossing – of mothers and myths and memories and monsters – Caitlin George’s new play takes you on a journey whose experience is greater than the sum of its parts. Helen. invites you to leap into the unknown, and revel in the unexpected.

Can’t wait you to see it and we can’t wait to see you❤️

You’re not going to want to miss this one! Come hang with us for the LAST playdate of the summer, next Wednesday 8/16, curated by Scout Davis. We have an exciting lineup of musical acts feat. Sandile Mhlaba, The Lazours, and Emerson & Murphy Smith.

See you in the backyard! 🌳

We are hiring an associate producer!

We are small but mighty and need your inventive soul to help us make theatre and tell relevant stories 🥰

go to our Bio if you want to know more, and follow the yellow brick road!

It’s a very special open mic night! 🎤 Calling all artists & creative souls - next Wednesday will be a very special edition of playdate, where any guest can sign up to perform a small excerpt of creative work their excited about sharing. Come thirsty, bring a friend and be ready to celebrate our lovely community. And you might see Annie perform a little something…

Can’t wait to see you there!

🌟Meet our other intern, Electra!🌟

Electra Artemis Carzis is a born and raised New York writer and performer. She in currently enrolled in the Atlantic Acting Conservatory and pursuing a career in “the arts.” Electra graduated from Wellesley College with a Major in English and a Minor in Astronomy, or as her father calls it: unemployment. Nevertheless, she was published in the Drunken Canal and she put on her first play this February with a sold out three week run. She hopes to continue making new work and create a community of artists that lifts each other up one show at a time.

Last Tuesday, we hosted the first playdate of the season: the ultimate theatre hang, where we gather in backyard, wine in hand, and listen to artists present us their work-in-development 🍷🎭

The evening guest curater and performer brought on , w/ , and .landes.nyc to perform.

Thank you to everyone who came out this week. We’ve loved hosting you in the backyard and can’t wait to welcome you back next Playdate! See you soon!! 👀

Our Executive Artistic Director, Anne Hamburger will be speaking in a live discussion on the Power of Persistence this Friday, June 23rd at 12:00pm EST, streaming on Youtube. In the talk, Annie will discuss her almost 40-year career of being a cultural producer in the arts. Find the link to watch in our bio!

✨Meet our newest summer intern, Carolina! ✨

Carolina I. Correa (she/they) is an entrepreneur from Caguas, Puerto Rico.
Carolina transferred from the University of Puerto Rico to NYU where she studies Drama and Business of Entertainment, Media & Technology. Carolina has a passion for devised community based performance and is constantly pushing the boundaries of theater. She continuously questions the performing arts industry, striving towards a more nurturing and radical industry.
They aim to utilize their experience at En Garde Arts to learn and put into action the best practices and principles of performing arts administration.

Welcome Carolina, we’re happy to have you :)

Happy PRIDE! 🪩 ✨ En Garde Arts is proud to celebrate some of our friends and past artists who are involved in productions this month that are bringing the richness of q***r stories to the stage.

First, congrats to A Transparent Musical which opened yesterday at and features the talents of many of our friends, including , , , and

Secondly, Uncommon Voices and playdate alum is curating this year’s PrideFest at The Tank, running from June 16-25!

If you’re in NYC or LA go support our fam!

Uncommon Voices (and UV alum Jared Mezzocchi) is BACK on June 9th. The workshop presentation of 73 Seconds tells the true story of Jared’s relationship to his mother after she is invited by NASA to go into outer space. 73 Seconds is a piece about outer space, family, and our inability to cope with long-term catastrophe. And directed by the fabulous Aya Ogawa!

**THIS SHOW IS SOLD OUT but if you would like to be added to the mailing list then please write to [email protected] with your contact information.**

A beloved friend of EGA has an exciting show this week! 🪩

At House of Yes on Thursday May 18th, Brooklyn-based psych-cinematic artist Sky White Tiger will perform an interactive album release concert INVISIBLE CITY. From entrance to exit audience members will be greeted with experiences, projection mapping, and live performances that trigger memory, thought, the surreal and the sublime.
Doors 630 show at 7-10. The link is in s bio.

There is a very thin line that separates a Sitcom from the En Garde Arts team… In any case, we wish you a happy weekend 🪩💃
Thank you to for making us feel like cover models!
We got the extra special pleasure of getting our very own staff photoshoot during the Spanglish S**t showing in April, and safe to say we will be posting this everywhere from now on…

Last week in Red Hook: Sarah Gancher, Jared Mezzocchi and a great group of performers gifted a lucky audience with the first glimmers of their newest project, commissioned with the Vineyard Theatre! Through our Uncommon Voices program, they were able to have a short but generative few days of rehearsals that led to new and exciting discoveries at this early in-progress stage.

We can’t wait to see what comes next, keep your eyes and ears peeled for more!

Thanks to Coffey Street Studios for having us in your gorgeous space. 🙏

Last week in Red Hook, Sarah Gancher, Jared Mezzocchi and a great group of performers gifted a lucky audience with the first glimmers of their newest project, commissioned with the Vineyard Theatre! Through our Uncommon Voices program, they were able to have a short but generative few days of  rehearsals and workshopping that led to new and exciting discoveries at this early in-progress stage.

We can’t wait to see what comes next, keep your eyes and ears peeled for more!

Thanks again to Coffey Street Studios for having us in your gorgeous space. 🙏

What if we could witness the whole history of a place—all the personal conflicts, the tiny heartbreaks and small triumphs, all the moments when history was happening and no one realized it—all at once.

On April 19th, we’ll be presenting an early work-in-progress presentation of Red Hook History Project by Sarah Gancher and Jared Mezzocchi, co-commissioned by the Vineyard Theatre. This original, multimedia site-specific piece is about deep time, inspired by the history of the historic Red Hook watering hole and music venue Sunny’s!

We have released very few tickets, check the link in bio to grab the remaining few!!

Starting tomorrow, we’re hosting a very special developmental workshop of Spanglish S**t by founding playdate artist Samora La Perdida! Over the course of the week, Samora, along with composers Josiah Handelman and Matthew Zwiebel, will be working on this exciting new musical - culminating in an exclusive work-in-progress presentation on April 3rd 💛

EGA RECOMMENDS 🎭:

HANG TIME
written and directed by Pulitzer Prize Finalist Zora Howard
featuring Cecil Blutcher, Dion Graham, and Akron Watson

Three men chew the fat under an old, wide tree. In HANG TIME, we
peek into the interiority – the great loves and bitter blues – of Black
men in America. Setting the romantic and the macabre in sharp relief,
HANG TIME invites the viewer to envisage the living Black body
triumphant over the legacy of violence that it holds.

Don't miss the world premiere of this deeply moving and subversive work
in a strictly limited engagement March 15-April 3 only. Tickets from $20.

We’re getting ready to host , and cast for a week-long workshop as they begin their work on a new multimedia experiential piece, meditating on the themes of trans masculinity, intimacy, and father figures.

After the week of rehearsals and exploration, there will be a presentation to an intimate audience on March 9th. We can’t wait to see what they discover in this process!

EGA RECOMMENDS🎵 music??!Looking for a new sound to kick off the weekend? Check out En Garde Arts VIP and friend newest single “Grown Up Game” and more streaming on Spotify and Apple Music.

Looking for a show to see this weekend? EGA Recommends 🎭:

black odyssey at :

Obie-winning playwright Marcus Gardley (upcoming film adaptation of The Color Purple, The House That Will Not Stand) blends classic mythology, African-American history, and modern theatricality to create the poetic black odyssey. This vibrant reimagining of the Odysseus saga is set in modern-day Harlem, telling the epic tale of Ulysses Lincoln, a soldier facing the most daunting of voyages to reunite with his family. While fate may seem in control of Ulysses’ destiny, his ancestors and their buried history will help guide his journey home. Directed by Stevie Walker-Webb (Ain’t No Mo’).

We were so excited to rediscover some of these archives from Father Was A Peculiar Man, including the original NYT review and playbill! Repost from on the experience of Father Was A Peculiar Man:

“In 1990 I met an extraordinary artist while sitting across a kitchen table in LA. His name was and it was evident that he was fearless and endlessly talented and I brought him to New York and he created . Little did I know that, as we wheeled wheel barrows through the streets of the meatpacking district with car batteries attached to speakers, set up a 120 foot table each night that ran 3/4 of the way down Little West 12th street, and attempted to manage 60 performers and a marching band, that this show and this artist would be remembered as an esssntial part of American theatre history. one of the performers had taken 13 hours of footage to recreate the experience of the show and this film will be shown at the on February 20th. Many of the performers will be there and the film will be followed by a panel with Tony, Patricia Ybarra and I. The things that were possible in this pre 9/11 era can no longer be done. There has been too much gentrification and there are too many rules. Despite all this there are many of us that press on and I am grateful for the bravery that so many in our field exemplify, despite all the ways in which we are told things are impossible. This experience is a reminder that nothing is impossible if you persist.”

New logo, new tagline! 🏙️

Since 1985, En Garde Arts has used the city as a stage to bring live performance to the people.

Keep an eye out soon for more on what “the city is our stage” means to us, and how it inspires our creative process in 2023.

Happy holidays from all of us to all of you. An exciting year ahead and can't wait to share in community with all of you.

An evening of story and song, a love letter to New York and its theatre community: the En Garde Arts 2022 Gala is HERE! ✨🌆

We are SO thrilled to celebrate our honorees John Clinton Eisner & Sarah Ruhl, as well as award the inaugural recipient of the Joan D. Firestone Commissioning Fund. The evening will feature performances and appearances by some of the most celebrated artists of the stage and screen! And of course, food inspired by the city’s diverse culinary scene.

Funds from the gala will support En Garde Arts in continuing to mentor & uplift the next generation of innovative theater makers in NYC and beyond.

You can learn more about the evening we have planned, or to give a donation, at the link in our bio. More soon!

Today was inspirational. A Sunday brunch with and and to engage in an inter generational conversation around what kind of mentorship support they would like and need. Why are they holding the cheese? Sent home with a care package due to a screwed up Costco order in my part! So much learning and an exciting beginning yi held define how to can best support a new generation of theatre makers. More soon!!

Join us for dinner + a show at HELEN.!! 🧆🫒

Performances of HELEN. include a post-show discussion with the artists and a hangout with food and wine on the patio!

Presentations include:
Monday, November 7 @ 7:30pm, with doors opening at 6:30pm for reception with food and drink on the outdoor patio

Tuesday, November 8 at 3:00pm with reception following the performance

Location:
The Flea Theater, 20 Thomas Street, NYC

Link in bio for tickets!

Last Uncommon Voices of the year! Tickets for HELEN. are available, November 7th and 8th. A play by that aims to contextualize the maginalization of women in history and myth.
Link to tix is in our Bio.

Written by Caitlin George
Directed by
Running only 2 days at

En Garde Arts Recommends 🎭:

We highly recommend going to see The Fall, featuring an exceptional performance by our beloved Board Member Ron Guttman.
The Fall opens tonight and runs through November 19th at Soho Playhouse.

Celebrate the end of the harvest with playdate - The Ultimate Theatre Hang! curated by Gabriel Torres 🌙🕯🐍

Join us for an evening of ritual and performance inspired by Hecate, the Triple Goddess. Featuring excerpts of works-in-progress by: Alba Delia Hernández, Jasmine Dorothy Haefner, and Alemor

Capacity for playdate is limited. If you’d like to attend, please DM us for the RSVP link.



[Image Description for 1 image: dark blue poster with headshots of 3 artists and orange and yellow text that reads: “playdate, the ultimate theater hang. En Garde Arts presents Alemor, Jasmine Dorothy Haefner, and Alba Delia Hernandez. Curated by Gabriel Torres. Mingle, drink, share, commune, play. Experience innovative new work by artists in our backyard. RSVP required. Free. Brooklyn, NY. October 12th at 7:00pm.]

Second week of performances at La Jolla, we are having a wonderful time sharing this story with mew audiences on the West Coast.

“vibrant, heart-pounding and moving songs” (…) “the ensemble cast are all talented musicians and singers, with several exceptional actors in the mix” - The San Diego Union-Tribune