Archives: Projects
Archives: Projects
Ping Chong + Company’s Beyond Sacred: Voices of Muslim Identity
December 4, 2015
Beyond Sacred, written by Lab Think Tank member Ping Chong and Sara Zatz, with Ryan Conarro in collaboration with the performers, is an interview-based theatre production exploring the diverse experiences of Muslim communities within New York City. … MORE
Generation (Wh)Y: Global Voices on Stage
April 1, 2015
Generation (Wh)Y was an intimate live performance that moved through multiple spaces exploring real experiences from global voices and the poetry of everyday life. This immersive theatrical experience of innovative multi-media performances resulted from year-long dialogue and encounters between Georgetown students and youth from Egypt, … MORE
Amrika Chalo (Destination: USA)
January 1, 2015
Written and directed by one of Pakistan’s most celebrated artists, this hilarious send-up of US-Pakistani relations set in the Visa Office at the US Embassy in Islamabad explodes stereotypes through satire. … MORE
Voices Unheard: Syria: The Trojan Women Summit
September 1, 2014
The Lab was scheduled to host this internationally celebrated production of Syria: The Trojan Women, performed by an extraordinary group of women refugees forced to flee their homes in Syria, … MORE
Laterna Magika’s Anticodes
December 1, 2013
Laterna Magika’s classic and typical use of film footage is replaced in Anticodes by projection and sounds from live sources. The production introduced real-time tracking to Laterna Magika, … MORE
Freedom Theatre’s The Island
September 1, 2013
This classic South African apartheid-era drama, inspired by a true story, is set in a prison and revolves around a cellmate who is soon to be released, and another who is serving a life sentence. … MORE
On Grace
March 1, 2013
Celebrated playwright and actress Anna Deavere Smith and acclaimed cellist Joshua Roman participated in a residency with The Lab centered around the continued development of the work On Grace. … MORE
Convening on Global Performance, Civic Imagination, and Cultural Diplomacy
June 5, 2012
The Lab hosted an invited convening, supported by the Georgetown University Reflective Engagement in the Public Interest Grant, featured more than 75 theater artists, policymakers, government officials, activists, cultural leaders, … MORE
At a time characterized by polarization and distrust, the need for approaches that humanize others through narrative and empathy has never been greater. The Lab is dependent on outside funding in order to make our work possible.
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