About

Mission

“Flux Theatre Ensemble pollinates plays and culture to grow creative kinship.
Against the dominance of exploitative systems,
Flux advances collective care, long-term artistic collaboration, and shared power.
Rooted in New York City theatre, we follow where our people lead:
across distance, disciplines, and generations.
Rising toward liberation, we create the worlds we need, an act of play at a time.”

In October 2024, after a year-long process, Flux revised our mission statement. The revised mission emerged from sustained conversations about how Flux and the world have changed since we reached consensus on our last mission statement in 2010. It took rituals and story circles, Google Docs and chart paper, community conversations and collective prophecy. We hope you’ll join us celebrating and manifesting this new vision over our next decades together!

We also honor our past mission statement, which served us well over fourteen years. It is the soil from which our new mission has grown:

Flux’s mission from 2010-24: “Flux Theatre Ensemble produces transformative theatre that explores and awakens the capacity for change. As an ensemble-artist driven company, we believe that long-term collaboration and rigorous creative development can unite artists and audiences to build a creative home in New York.”

More About Us

Since 2006, Flux has produced over 30 full productions and hundreds of readings and developmental projects. The ensemble is led by fifteen Creative Partners (CPs) who practice shared leadership through consensus-based decision-making, collectively held resources and labor, and artistic collaboration. There are no fixed executive or artistic director positions. Instead, CPs move in to and out of leadership roles depending on the project, with other CPs consenting to those temporary roles. In this way, the power of leadership is not fixed and exploitative, but rather relational and abundant—a resource we all contribute to and draw from. Flux is the proud recipient of the 2011 Caffe Cino Fellowship Award, presented annually to an Off-Off-Broadway theatre company that consistently produces outstanding work. The company’s productions of Hearts Like Fists and Ajax in Iraq were chosen as “New York Times Critics’ Picks” and in 2015 Backstage named Flux one of “eight young and mighty New York theatre companies.” Over the years, Flux has received New York Innovative Theatre Award nominations for their productions of Once Upon a Bride There Was a Forest, Jane the Plain, Sans Merci, Hearts Like Fists, Ajax in Iraq, The Angel Eaters Trilogy, The Lesser Seductions of History, Dog Act, Rizing, and Operating Systems.

Land Acknowledgment

Flux Theatre Ensemble has produced the majority of our plays on the Lenape island of Mannahatta in Lenapehoking, the Lenape homeland. Flux has also produced work on the lands of the Kizh, Tongya, and Chumash, colonially known as Los Angeles; on the lands of the Canarsie and Munsee Lenape, colonially known as Long Island City, Queens; and on the lands of the Lenni Lenape in Easton, PA. Every year, Flux holds our Annual Retreat at the Little Pond Arts Retreat, also on Lenni Lenape lands in Nazareth, PA. We honor the generations of stewardship Native peoples have given to the water, air, and land.