Past Productions

Shakespeare's The Comedy of Errors
May 2025
Pier 40 Picnic House
An immersive production reflecting the madcap chaos of New York’s Financial District in the 1980s, featuring live music and an ensemble cast of sixteen performers.
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Emily Elyse Everett's The Blood
August 2024
Edinburgh Fringe Festival
A bold, funny, and sometimes spooky rendition of three Brothers Grimm faerie tales, as told by a troupe of traveling storytellers over a shared feast of wine and bread.

Sarah Kane's Crave
August 2023
La MaMa Shares
A stark and haunting production of Sarah Kane’s fragmented poetry, staged in an intimate indoor-outdoor space with live music.

Shakespeare's Henry VI, Part II
August 2022
La MaMa Shares
A rarely-staged section of Shakespeare's Henriad, as part of Stairwell's multiyear, play-by-play tour through the War of the Roses tetralogy, emphasizing parallels between the tensions of 15th-century England and those dividing the United States today.

Shakespeare's Henry VI, Part I
August 2021
The Old Stone House, Brooklyn
The first of a planned four-play run through the War of the Roses, featuring puppetry, music, and daring maneuvers, interrogating the subject of foreign wars - and the havoc they wreak on the world.

Anne and Richard, taken from Shakespeare's Richard III
December 2020
Virtual
A work-in-progress showing of a new devised work, utilizing the source text of Shakespeare's Richard III and exploring the childhood relationship of the characters .

Harold Pinter's The Dumb Waiter
December 2019
Second Floor Theater
A raucous, unsettling, and immersive play, prompting us to ask: where does our loyalty lie? Featuring a fully-immersive, automated cage.

Aeschylus' Oresteia
August 2019
h0l0, Queens
A haunting, visceral, immersive production in a nightclub in Queens.

Shakespeare's Macbeth
May 2019
The Back Room, Brooklyn
Three witches walk into a bar. Things start to get a little crazy after that. Staged inside the dimly lit world of a New York City speakeasy. A fast-paced, laser focused thriller performed right in front of and among the spectators.

Shakespeare's Macbeth
August 2018
Carroll Street Basketball Court, Brooklyn
Set in a decaying contemporary society where team sports inform law, justice, and politics — can love defeat tribalism and break the game before the final buzzer? When does competition turn into violence? Featuring an athletic ensemble and a unique physical vocabulary informed by dance, team sports and original music.

Alfred Jarry's Ubu Rex
December 2015
AVIV, Brooklyn
Imagining AVIV in Brooklyn as a circus Cabaret Poland for a post-apocalyptic dinner party. The nine person cast and three-piece band use music, clowning, food, drinks and an audience "splash zone" to create an unforgettable piece of environmental theater.

Shakespeare's As You Like It
May 2015
Prospect Park, Brooklyn
Stairwell's inaugural production! An immersive production in the woods of Prospect Park, surrounding the audience in a beautiful woodland space. Featuring sports and picnicking with the actors and performers.