Happenstance Theater
HAPPENSTANCE THEATER is a professional company committed to devising, producing and touring original, performer-created visual, poetic Theatre. They have been devising, producing and touring original, performer-created visual, poetic, physical Theatre since 2006. Their ensemble has been developing work together since 2012. They are multi-talented performers who craft all aspects of their pieces from concept to realization. Under the Artistic co-Direction of Mark Jaster and Sabrina Mandell, they harvest imagery from the past and re-contextualize it in performances that address eternal themes of life, death, and the ephemeral. With the simplest means – movement, silence, theatrical clown, music, text, physical comedy and beauty – they seek to elevate the moment when the performers and audience meet, to lift the encounter beyond the daily and pedestrian into the realms of dreams, poetry, and art. Meaning is often discovered by happenstance.
In 2016 Happenstance received three Helen Hayes Awards for Outstanding Ensemble, Outstanding Costume Design and Outstanding Lead Actor. In 2017 Happenstance received two Helen Hayes Awards for Outstanding Costume Design and Outstanding Musical Direction.
Happenstance Theater has been performing at Theatre Project since 2014, and been a Theatre Project Resident Company since 2017. Past productions include Impossible! Cabaret Macabre, Cabaret Noir, Brouhaha, Manifesto!, BARACOCO, and PANTHEON.
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