This past June TMT hosted its 4th Summer Institute Intensive: a jam-packed week of exploration by our brilliant and bold fellows. We asked each of our five to reflect, in whatever format they wished, on their day of leading the Institute and what’s next in their journey through the year. Up next is Aaron Minerbrook, […]

Lenore Doxsee passed away on Friday, May 19th. She had lived with ovarian cancer for the past four years with astonishing strength and humor. No one did more than Lenore Doxsee to shape and build the vision that is the best of Target Margin Theater. Lenore was a foundational member of the company, designing the […]

Eva von Schweinitz (Lead Artist) is a theater- and filmmaker trained in experimental/devised theater and collaboration. Her work has been presented internationally, including screenings at Tribeca Film Festival, Palm Springs International ShortFest, International Short Film Festival Oberhausen, and performances at festivals in New York (PRELUDE, BEAT Festival), Germany, France, Belgium and Luxemburg. As a video […]

Claire Moodey (Lead Artist) is a director, performer, playwright, and designer living in Brooklyn. With Target Margin Theater: Drunken With What (Assistant Director), I Made a Mistake (Performer), Compositions…Master-Pieces…Identity (Stage Manager), Pozhar! (Performer). In 2014 she was a fellow in the TMT Institute for Collaborative Theater Making. As a director/playwright, she has developed her own […]

Bess Rowen (Lead Artist) is a Ph.D. candidate and Dissertation Fellow in the Theatre Program at The Graduate Center, CUNY, and a lecturer at Purchase College. She has directed, stage managed, and even done a little playwriting. Her article “Completing the Sentence with a Gesture: The Deconstructed Dialogue-Stage Direction Binary in the Work of Tennessee […]

Kathleen Kennedy Tobin (Lead Artist) is a paper theater designer, animator, and third-generation Eugene O’Neill fan. Her tabletop show The 2013 Puppet Re-enactment of the 1920 Bolshevik Re-enactment of the Storming of the Winter Palace October 1917, originated in 2012 for Target Margin Labs at the Bushwick Starr, and has been performed at St. Ann’s […]

Ann Marie Dorr (Lead Artist) often works on big-little shows with adventurous and ambitious ideas in downtown and Brooklyn spaces including The Bushwick Starr, Abrons Arts Center, The Brick, The New Ohio, and JACK. Previously with Target Margin Theater: Drunken With What (Abrons Arts Center), Reread Another (The Brick), The Gertrude Stein Labs (The Bushwick […]

The week with the TMT fellows and staff was everything I expected – enlightening, inspiring, thought-provoking, and in turns both goofy and brilliant (though those might be the same thing!) Even more amazing, it was an experience that continues to inform my thinking and work nearly a month later. My experiment was exploring the intersection […]

Before you read…listen and watch. Listen to the link below, but here is the main caveat, listen with your eyes closed. Done? Now, listen and watch with your eyes open. “Mediums” from David Bird I’m interested in better understanding how different contexts surrounding our listening experience affect our experience of music. I conducted obvious experiments: […]

I was keen on doing an activity in the natural world. I had been working on a weird performance poem of sorts about NATURE and so being in nature felt like an important component of my day. The Bronx Botanic Garden was a thought, but it turns out to be rather expensive to go there […]

As my summer internship with Target Margin Theater comes to a close, I wanted to let you know a little about myself and the lovely summer I have just experienced. My name is Emma Peretz, and while you may call me Emma, everyone around here knows me as “Judy.” Why? That is a story for […]

TMT: This is your first time as a Lead Artist in a TMT Lab. What was going through your mind when we approached you about tackling this piece of theater? Jeanette Oi-Suk Yew: First thought: My work is the exact opposite of Eugene O’Neill. Are they sure they are talking to the right person? Second, […]

TMT: What drew you to Act III of The Iceman Cometh? What makes it stand out from the other acts. Katie Rose McLaughlin: Initially I was totally uninterested in Act III. In a play about drinking, almost no one had a drink! BO-RING. Do the party, I thought. But the more I looked at what […]

Target Margin Theater present the ICEMAN Lab, our radical new approach to The Iceman Cometh by Eugene O’Neill, with four diverse theater artists each tackling a separate act of the play. This fresh take on O’Neill’s classic will allow audiences to see each act as a separate experiment, all four together as a unified whole, […]

The ICEMAN Lab runs June 2 – 25 @ HERE (145 6th Ave). TICKETS ON SALE NOW! TMT: You’ve been a Target Margin regular, in main stage and lab shows, now you are a lead artist. What’s unique about participating in a lab as a lead artist? Julia Sirna-Frest: Being a lead artist is a […]

A musing by Ann Marie Dorr & Moe Yousuf –A bar joke is a very common and basic type of joke. A man walks into a bar and… –Something happens. –The initial perception of the joke is that a man is walking into a bar to have a drink. But this only lasts a few […]

I wrote a play that suspends actors from the ceiling. There’s a reason for it, beyond being really cool, I promise. The metaphor is a tad obvious. We are youth…trapped…screaming to be heard…to be relevant. Initially I just saw them floating. Then Carolyn Mraz (another TMT Associated Artist) suggested a net over the audience because […]

Eunice Wong (Performer) is a classically trained actor who works in professional theatres across the United States and in New York City. She was Gretchen in TMT’s Faust at Classic Stage. Also: Smart People (Huntington – My Theatre Boston Award, Best Actress),Intelligent Design… (Studio – Helen Hayes Award, Lead Actress), Infinite Ache (Walnut St. – […]

Jesse Freedman (Sound Demon) Director and collaborator. As TMT’s Sound Demon: Uriel Acosta: I Want That Man!, Reread Another. Director: Outside in (Worry Noise Dirt Heat), Karaoke Bacchae (Meta-Phys Ed. / New Ohio Theater) Paisieu (Target Margin Stein Labs), Vilna’s Got a Golem (Sarah Lawrence College), Chalom: Dream Opera (Meta-Phys. Ed.) MFA, Sarah Lawrence College. […]

Mary Neufeld (Performer). A highlighted list of Mary’s Target Margin appearances include: in Uncle Vanya (Serebryakov), Dinner Party (Diotima), Mother Courage and Her Children (Mother Courage), Little Eyolf (Rita). In The Tempest (Caliban), Hamlet (Polonius), Cymboline (Belarius), Titus Andronicus (Tamara) and Measure for Measure (Lucio). Mary also acted with the Ridiculous Theatrical Company in Dr. […]