Musician, composer and sound artist AVI AMON is one of four lead artists selected to lead the SINDBAD LABS, running at Target Margin from May 31 – June 24. Avi’s lab, INSHALLAH/MASHALLAH, runs from June 7 – 10. ******** INSHALLAH/MASHALLAH is part musical installation, part performance. How did The One Thousand and One Nights inspire this approach? I […]

Target Margin presents the SINDBAD LAB, a performance festival dismantling and rebuilding the classic Sindbad tales from The One Thousand and One Nights running May 31 – June 24. Actor and director STEPHANIE WEEKS is one of four lead artists selected to lead the labs. Her lab, MORE WONDER, PLEASE, runs first. We talked to […]

Photo by Audrey Wang Target Margin’s latest production, PAY NO ATTENTION TO THE GIRL, based on various translation / transmissions of The One Thousand and One Nights opens March 29 and runs until April 21. During the run we are asking five questions to each of our five actors. WHO SHOULD WE PAY ATTENTION TO? […]

Photo by Kelly Stuart Target Margin’s latest production, PAY NO ATTENTION TO THE GIRL, based on various translation / transmissions of The One Thousand and One Nights opens March 29 and runs until April 21. During the run we are asking five questions to each of our five actors. WHO SHOULD WE PAY ATTENTION TO? […]

Photo by Kelly Stuart Target Margin’s latest production, PAY NO ATTENTION TO THE GIRL, based on various translation / transmissions of The One Thousand and One Nights opens March 29 and runs until April 21. During the run we are asking five questions to each of our five actors. WHO SHOULD WE PAY ATTENTION TO? […]

Target Margin’s latest production, PAY NO ATTENTION TO THE GIRL, based on various translation / transmissions of The One Thousand and One Nights opens March 29 and runs until April 21. During the run we are asking five questions to each of our five actors. WHO SHOULD WE PAY ATTENTION TO? The answer: DEEPALI GUPTA. […]

Target Margin’s latest production, PAY NO ATTENTION TO THE GIRL, based on various translation / transmissions of The Thousand and One Nights opens March 29 and runs until April 21. During the run we are asking five questions to each of our five actors. WHO SHOULD WE PAY ATTENTION TO? CLICK HERE FOR MORE INFO […]

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. BY CB GOODMAN A rocking hug outside while […]

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. CHECK OUT OUR NEXT ENTRY […]

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 […]