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December 2024

In this moment when we hunger for authentic connection, we need storytellers to seed our culture with hope, resilience, and renewal. In Flux, we’re committed to telling those stories, but we need your help. Can you make a meaningful donation to support our work in 2025?

This past year has been a year of growth and experimentation. We grew our creative partnership, launched Sharing Power— a podcast on shared leadership, presented workshops and readings of exciting new works by Amy Dellagiarino, Kristen Palmer, and Jason Tseng, cultivated new stories in our ongoing Core Work development program and Annual Retreat, and adopted a brand new mission statement!:

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.

We then dove ALL the way into that new mission with our production of Corey Allen’s Methods in Madness and Polly, a dumbshow for smart people desperate to survive the fallout. Presented by The Brick, Corey’s gorgeous and urgent theatrical experiment examined the creative process and correlations between mental health and artistry. We followed where Corey led, incorporating visual art, audio drama, and film into a live event for the first time ever.  

That spirit of experimentation will continue in 2025 with a whole slate of new developmental readings and workshops of plays from long-time collaborators with Flux:

• Rebecca Roman Redd, by Montserrat Mendez, is a sexy, farcical comedy about a delightfully disconnected, mega-successful author navigating her identity and past loves when her wildly popular YA series about a werewolf hunter suddenly becomes all too real.
• Adapted from The Bacchae, AVES + AUTTA + INO + MEL by Rebecca Ana Peña centers the lives and sisterhood of Agave, Autonoë, Ino, and Semele as they navigate a world of gods, violence, and Bacchic frenzy. Dedicated to changing their fate, they steadfastly create the world they dream about; however, everything’s not always what it seems. 
• God Splat, by Adam Szymkowicz, explores the absolute wonder that is human existence by embodying both its profundity and its absurdity. The ensemble journeys—often hilariously—through key life milestones (birth, high school, falling in love, breaking up, the death of a parent, etc.) at an accelerated speed, shifting fluidly among roles and perspectives.
• In The Belle, by Chester Poon, youtubers go ghost hunting and have their lives transformed when they meet the real thing. In this dark comedy, a very haunted house forces the characters to confront their own ghosts and demons.
• The Elephant Play, by Kelly O’Donnell, is a devised movement piece set to music that follows the lives of a herd of wild elephants as they learn to survive in a world disrupted and dominated by human beings. 
• In Portal Magic Consensus Time, a group of theatremakers discovers a portal to a world where the COVID-19 pandemic never happened…only they’re not sure what to do with it. Share it with the world, or only those they trust? Or make sure no one else ever opens it again?

Plus, we’re excited to announce that we will be once again returning to the stage with a fully staged production of a world premiere of a new play that will be announced in 2025.

All the while we will continue fostering our community of storytellers through our Annual Retreat and bi-weekly Core Work program which together developed 43 new plays and creative works from 18 creators, and collaborated with a total of 41 theatre artists.

As we embark on this coming season of cultivating a new crop of stories ripe with pleasure, pain, and possibility, we can’t do it without you, our Flux community,and your support of this vital work. Please give today to fund our upcoming season. Whether $25 or $500, every gift strengthens our collective power to reimagine the world.

Thank you for believing in the transformative power of theatre and for helping Flux flourish into its next chapter.

With gratitude and care,
Flux Theatre Ensemble Creative Partners

Flux acknowledges and is grateful for the funding and support we receive from the following current institutional funders.

Flux acknowledges and is grateful for the funding and support we have received from the following past institutional funders.