Double Edge Theatre

Performing Group

Details:

Contact/Mailing Info

  • Name/Title: Cariel Klein, Associate Producer
  • Phone: 413-628-0277
  • Fax: 866-649-0635
  • Address: 948 Conway Road
  • City/State: Ashfield, MA 01330-9772

Primary Discipline

Theater - General

Art + Living Culture + Art Justice = Double Edge Theatre
an art / community / cultural collective

Our Vision is to prioritize imagination in times of creative, emotional, spiritual, and polictical uncertainty.
Our Mission is a journey that holds space for authenticity, interaction, identity for whoever is seeking creative, emotional, spiritual, and political clarity. 
Our Art (performance / visual / multi-media) is grounded in a rigorous ensemble aesthetic unfolded in dream, imagery, metaphor, mystery, and symbolism.
Our Work (cultural / economic / organizational / personal / political) is created and sustained within an open, honest, meaningful, relevant shared experience. We call this 'Living Culture.'
Our Dedication is to face isolation and erasure; to face despair and pain that can translate into personal incapacity and political paralysis. To uplift. We call this 'Art Justice.'

Double Edge Theatre, an artist-run organization, was founded in Boston in 1982 by Stacy Klein as a feminist ensemble and laboratory of actors’ creative process. The Double Edge Ensemble, led by Artistic Director Klein, along with Co-Artistic Directors Carlos Uriona, Jennifer Johnson, and Producing Executive Director Adam Bright, creates original theatrical performances that are imaginative, imagistic, and visceral. These include indoor performances and site-specific indoor/outdoor traveling spectacles both of which are developed with collaborating visual and music artists through a long-term process and presented on the Farm and on national and international tours. In 1994, Double Edge moved from Boston to a 105-acre former dairy farm in rural Ashfield, MA, to create a sustainable artistic home.

Awards

  • Founder and Artistic Director Stacy Klein received a 2013 Doris Duke Performing Artist Award in Theatre.
  • NEA Our Town, NEA Art Works, The Trust for Mutual Understanding, the Association of Performing Arts Presenters, Multi-Arts Production Fund, InRoads/Arts International, TCG, Massachusetts Cultural Council CIP and Cultural Facilities funding.
  • 2006 OTTO award for excellence in international political theatre.

Professional Associations

  • Network of Ensemble Theatres

Additional Information

  • Year founded: 1982
  • Is a Teaching Artist
  • Is a Touring Artist
  • Approx. 30 events per year
  • Geographic Reach: City/Town-wide, Surrounding Counties/Region, Nationally, Internationally
  • Seasons active: Year round
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