Meet NYR Studios Resident Companies

Art Effects

Mission Statement:
ArtEffects Theatre Company strives to provide a positive environment where each artist can express themselves freely without judgment. Our company focuses on creative processes that include equal appreciation and collaboration among all artists. Through our work, we hope to spark conversation about the positive effects of art in our society.
Website: None as of yet
Email Address: ArtEffectstheatre@gmail.com
Contact: Phil Newsom
Phone: 646-824-7074

Working Man’s Clothes

Website: www.workingmansclothes.com
Mission Statement: Working Man’s Clothes Productions is dedicated to developing and producing authentic and original theater by supporting new works and new talent that will incite an evolution within modern theater.
E-mail: council@workingmansclothes.com

Thesia Arts

Mission Statement: Thesia Arts acts as a producing body for visual art, music, film and theater, and to educates diverse populations in various arts in the New York City region. As a producing channel for original works, Thesia Arts seeks to shepherd and realize projects at various levels of conception, then to distribute that art by creating and connecting with a receptive audience. Thesia Arts also seeks to create an accessible, creative community that appreciates the practical value of the artistic process and a finished product. The company's educational goal is to connect students of all ages with professionals in their field, allowing for educational growth, as well as personal and professional development.
Website: www.thesia-arts.org
Email: jessicamcvea@gmail.com
Phone: 315-256-6972


Flux Theatre Ensemble

Mission Statement: Flux Theatre Ensemble is a group of multi-faceted theatre artists composed of playwrights, directors, actors and designers. Through continual collaboration and development of new works, re-imagined classics, and ensemble-based projects, Flux creates seasons with an underlining theme that unites work that is character-driven, globally engaged and uniquely theatrical.

Flux is the proud recipient of two NYC Fringe Festival Awards: In 2007 the Village Voice Audience Favorite Award for August Schulenburg’s Riding the Bull and in 2008 for Heather Cohn’s “Outstanding Direction” of Other Bodies. nytheatre.com chose Flux Theatre Ensemble as one of their “People of the Year” for 2008 saying “This rising theatre company had a hit in the New York International Fringe Festival with Other Bodies, written by artistic director August Schulenburg, and then went on to mount the fall’s most ambitious indie show, Johnna Adams’s Angel Eaters Trilogy.” In 2008, The New York Press called Flux “The Best Underappreciated Indie Theatre Company Whose Work You Should Get Your Ass To”.

www.fluxtheatre.org

Mind The Gap

Mission Statement: Mind The Gap Theatre exists to find, read, evaluate, develop and ultimately produce new British theatrical writing in New York City. While our focus is on presenting new British works, with a company of mad talented actors and playwrights from BOTH sides of the pond, we occasionally like to show off what the Yanks in our company can do by taking a new American play to the UK.

We are eager to read and present plays from all over the British Isles to achieve a level of regional, ethnic and gender diversity.

The ultimate goal of Mind The Gap is not merely to present readings, workshops and short plays but to bring to life the highest quality productions. It is our goal to present 1-3 new full-length productions in New York City in addition to the BRITSBITS festival, a showcase of roughly 25 short plays that are critiqued by members of the company.

www.mindthegaptheatre.com

Horse Trade

Mission Statement: Horse Trade is a self-sustaining theater development group; with a focus on new work. It has produced a massive quantity of stimulating downtown theater. Horse Trade’s Resident Artist Program offers a home to a select group of Independent Theater artists, pooling together a great deal of talent and energy. It is also the home of FRIGID New York – the first and only festival of its kind in New York City.

www.horsetrade.info