Hook & Eye Theater

Hook & Eye devises new, non-linear, mash-up plays through ensemble co-creation and co-authorship. We mine themes from history and science, and flirt with myths. Incongruent source materials are fastened together to disrupt the everyday. We invent uncommon relationships, blend genres, and craft intergenerational stories, offering audiences visceral experiences that move through their heart, head, and civic spaces.

Every artist engaged with H&E is a generator of content, revision, and performance. We celebrate the power of creativity by making stories that honor the agency of the individual artist, as well as the group as a whole. We create new works of performance as a collective, utilizing a creative process as rigorous in its joy as it is in its inquiry. Our core values guide the plurality of artists to create at the intersection of play-making and script-writing:

• Performers and designers are more than interpreters; they are multi-dimensional creators.

• Intersectionality creates ensembles that play & stay together. 

• Wage parity is non-negotiable.

• Audiences can hold contradictions in source material.

• A repetitive cultural diet limits curiosity and civic growth. 

NEW IN 2025: Support or teaching artists as we embark on a new partnership with PS130 in Brooklyn AND as we continue development on our newest piece: PLAN C.

 ALL DONATIONS are allocated towards PAYING ARTSTS!