THE NONSENSE LAB
Lead by Caroline Fermin, Adam M. Kassim, & Kathleen Kennedy Tobin
The Doxsee Theater | September 17 – October 3, 2026
The NONSENSE LAB will offer three productions, each for 6 performances, from September 17 to October 3, 2026, in The Doxsee, and three 1-night events (talks, installations and performances). All of our Lab Artists start with these questions: how can we work meaningfully with the nonsense around us? How can we create poetry and beauty through nonsense itself?
This season our Labs are led by three Artists from diverse disciplines. Choreographer Caroline Fermin’s Let Me Be an Animal is an evening-length dance celebrating the slow, awkward, sweaty, and questioning parts of ourselves. Associate A.D. Adam M. Kassim creates an explosion of politics, pop culture, and history in We’ll Jump Off That Bridge When We Get There and Toy theater creator / puppeteer Kathleen Kennedy Tobin builds a tiny cruel nonsense universe called The Charnel House;
LET ME BE AN ANIMAL
Lead Artist: Caroline Fermin
An evening-length dance celebrating the slow, awkward, sweaty, and questioning parts of ourselves.
WE’LL JUMP OFF THAT BRIDGE WHEN WE GET THERE
Lead Artist: Adam M. Kassim
History is manipulated, documents are shredded, and even knowledge is lynched. How do you find connection in a system devised to isolate? Better hold onto your neck!
THE CHARNEL HOUSE
Lead Artist: Kathleen Kennedy Tobin
Here in our city, in our world, the artifacts of history pile up and are crushed beneath our feet. Look, we continue to love in the time of apocalypse.