Fiasco Theater

Fiasco Theater is an ensemble that offers dynamic, joyful, actor-driven productions of plays and musicals. Fiasco's artists believe the performer, the text and the audience's imagination are the primary elements required to create great theater. Past shows include Merrily We Roll Along (Roundabout Theatre Company), Cymbeline (Theatre for a New Audience/Barrow Street Thetare), Into the Woods (Roundabout, The Old Globe, McCarter Theatre Center), Measure for Measure (The New Victory Theater, Long Wharf Theatre), The Two Gentlemen of Verona (Folger Theatre, Theatre for a New Audience), The Imaginary Invalid (The Old Globe) and Twelfth Night (Classic Stage Company). Cymbeline was presented Off-Broadway twice, for nearly 200 performances and was honored with the 2012 Off-Broadway Alliance Award for Best Revival. Into the Woods garnered the 2015 Lucille Lortel Award for Best Revival. Into the Woods went on to play the Menier Chocolate Factory in London, and the 2016-17 national tour won the Helen Hayes Award for Outstanding Visiting Production and The Los Angeles Drama Critics Circle Awards for Best Direction and Best Ensemble. Every year, Fiasco offers the Free Training Initiative—a three-week, conservatory-level classical acting intensive for professional actors, completely free of charge to students. Fiasco's work has been commissioned by the Old Globe and they have been in residence with Theatre for a New Audience, Duke University, Marquette University and Louisiana State University. They are currently in residence with Roundabout Theatre Company and New York University Gallatin School of Individualized Study. Their work has been developed at the Sundance Theatre Lab, the Orchard Project, SPACE on Ryder Farm and The Shakespeare Society, and they have led master classes at Brown University and New York University. Fiasco Theater receives generous support from The Howard Gilman Foundation, SHS Foundation, Lucille Lortel Foundation, Actors Equity Foundation, The Harold & Mimi Steinberg Charitable Trust, New York State Council on the Arts and The Shubert Organization.