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Past Productions

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Caryl Churchill's FAR AWAY

November 2025

Box of Moonlight

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A Bushwick warehouse transforms into a chilling world not so different from our own. 

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Shakespeare's The Comedy of Errors

May 2025

Pier 40 Picnic House

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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 ​

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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.

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Sarah Kane's Crave

August 2023

La MaMa Shares​

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A stark and haunting production of Sarah Kane’s fragmented poetry, staged in an intimate indoor-outdoor space with live music.

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Shakespeare's Henry VI, Part II

August 2022

La MaMa Shares​

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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.

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Shakespeare's Henry VI, Part I

August 2021

The Old Stone House, Brooklyn​

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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.

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Anne and Richard, taken from Shakespeare's Richard III

December 2020

Virtual​

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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 .

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Harold Pinter's The Dumb Waiter

December 2019

Second Floor Theater​

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A raucous, unsettling, and immersive play, prompting us to ask: where does our loyalty lie? Featuring a fully-immersive, automated cage.

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Aeschylus' Oresteia

August 2019

h0l0, Queens​

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A haunting, visceral, immersive production in a nightclub in Queens. 

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Shakespeare's Macbeth

May 2019

The Back Room, Brooklyn​

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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.

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Shakespeare's Macbeth

August 2018

Carroll Street Basketball Court, Brooklyn​

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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.

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Alfred Jarry's Ubu Rex

December 2015

AVIV, Brooklyn​

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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.

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Shakespeare's As You Like It

May 2015

Prospect Park, Brooklyn​

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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.

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