Company of Fools

Company of Fools Company of Fools celebrates diversity and accessibility with bold, original works. To this end, our mantra for our art is: Dare to fail gloriously.

Through hybrid performances, we unite in-person and virtual audiences, creating a vibrant space for new and rediscovered stories where all voices are heard and celebrated. COMPANY OF FOOLS is an independent, Latino-founded, and minority-run contemporary theatre company committed to community, social engagement, and innovation. We strive to constantly challenge the limits of our own ability, study,

understanding, and advocacy. Our brand, methodologies, and spirit do not shy away from challenge or change. We are always willing to push the absolute edge of our capabilities as artists, teachers, and creators. Our willingness to push past the fear of failure can and must lead to unheard-of success.

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We've been in the blind. 🦌Rehearsals are well underway for DEER BLIND by Collin Blackard, a story set in rural Oklahoma ...
02/18/2026

We've been in the blind. 🦌

Rehearsals are well underway for DEER BLIND by Collin Blackard, a story set in rural Oklahoma where a stagnant marriage begins to unravel as two hunters sit in an elevated deer stand, oblivious to the wildlife dancing below.
Come see what we've been building.

📅 Thursday, February 19
🕖 7:00 PM
📍 Open Jar Studios | Studio 11L, 1601 Broadway, New York, NY
Directed by Sarah Sutliff
Choreographed by Adrianna Poindexter
Photo ID required for entry

🔗 Link in bio for more info.

TheaterNYC OffBroadway

02/16/2026

Something is stirring in the woods. 🦌🌲

Join Company of Fools this Thursday, February 19 at 7 PM in Studio 11L at Open Jar Studios for a special presentation of Collin Blackard's play with dance, Deer Blind.

Witness the intersection of theater and movement. Reserve your FREE spot via the link in our bio. See you there!

02/10/2026

🦌 "no one was dancing, but I saw the choreography in my head. I saw the whole ballet...because the writing was so rich..."

In a recent conversation, dancer, choreographer, and life coach Aubrey Lynch II reflected on the first staged reading of Deer Blind with our Business Manager Lane McLeod Jackson. No movement had been choreographed yet—but the language, the tension, and the stillness hinted at something aching to move.
Now, movement arrives.

🎟️ Join us for the first-ever workshop presentation of Deer Blind with choreography
🗓️ Monday, February 19 at 7 PM
📍 Open Jar Studios, Studio 11L
🆓 Free to attend. Photo ID required.

Synopsis:
Tab and Donnel sit in an elevated hunting stand on a hayfield in Oklahoma. After Donnel questions Tab about his use of a rifle during bow season, Tab confides in Donnel about his stagnant marriage. Meanwhile, Tab’s wife Billie meets a yet-to-be identified lover. Unseen by the hunters and lovers, a trio of whitetail deer express the ecstasy and agony of mating season through the art of dance.

🔥🎭 STAFF PICKS: TYLER RILEY 🎭🔥Our Artistic Director and resident vibe curator is next up in our Staff Picks series, and ...
09/10/2025

🔥🎭 STAFF PICKS: TYLER RILEY 🎭🔥

Our Artistic Director and resident vibe curator is next up in our Staff Picks series, and let’s just say: the man’s taste? Immaculate.

We’re talking…
💘 Romantic chaos from Shakespeare (“I do love nothing in the world so well as you—is not that strange?”)
🎹 August Wilson wisdom that hits like a sermon (“Ain’t no mystery to life. You just got to go out and meet it square on.”)
✊🏾 A reminder of joy + strength from Ossie Davis (“I find, in being Black, a thing of beauty…”)
🌟 Musicals that range from cult classics to heart-breakers (Fela!, Passing Strange, A Strange Loop, Sweeney Todd, The Band’s Visit)
📚 Plays that demand attention (The Piano Lesson, For Colored Girls, The Ferryman, Is God Is, Blithe Spirit)
👏 Performances burned into memory (Nicole Ari Parker, Chita Rivera, Corey Hawkins, Cicely Tyson, Kara Young in literally anything).

Tyler joined Company of Fools to chase the work that shakes audiences awake, and his picks are exactly that: daring, electric, unforgettable.

💬 Now it’s your turn: what’s ONE show, musical, or performance you’ll never shut up about? Drop it below ⬇️

📚✨ It’s Library Card Sign-Up Month and we’re here to remind you: the best drama isn’t always onstage, sometimes it’s on ...
09/02/2025

📚✨ It’s Library Card Sign-Up Month and we’re here to remind you: the best drama isn’t always onstage, sometimes it’s on the shelves.

Our team pulled our fave plays you can snag at your local library (yes, libraries have theatre scripts, and yes, it feels like unlocking cheat codes for the stage). From Shakespeare to Suzan-Lori Parks, Mischief Theatre to McDonagh, it’s all waiting for you.

Because your library card isn’t just plastic.
It’s an all-access pass to centuries of:
🎭 Drama
😂 Comedy
💥 Chaos

So sign up. Check out. Dive in.
And let’s keep making noise for both live theatre and local libraries.

⚖️✨ THROWBACK TO MEASURE FOR MEASURE (2019) ✨⚖️A Duke ghosting his own city.A deputy with a God complex.A woman told to ...
08/30/2025

⚖️✨ THROWBACK TO MEASURE FOR MEASURE (2019) ✨⚖️

A Duke ghosting his own city.
A deputy with a God complex.
A woman told to stay quiet, who refuses.

Back in 2019, we cracked open Shakespeare’s so-called “problem play” with Barefoot Shakespeare Company and dove headfirst into Vienna’s moral panic. Puritan laws. Fornication scandals. A society obsessed with control but terrified of desire.

We asked one messy, dangerous question:
👉 What happens to a society when women’s voices are silenced? 👈

Alchemical Studios became our playground of power, hypocrisy, and truth-telling. Isabella said it best:
“...for truth is truth / To the end of reckoning.”

🦌💔🔫 A marriage on the rocks. A rifle that won’t fire. And three deer who just wanna DANCE IT OUT.This fall, Company of F...
08/23/2025

🦌💔🔫 A marriage on the rocks. A rifle that won’t fire. And three deer who just wanna DANCE IT OUT.

This fall, Company of Fools is cracking open DEER BLIND by Collin Blackard, a dark comedy where hunting season collides with mating season, and the humans aren’t the only ones in trouble.

Picture this: two men hiding out in a hunting blind, confessing secrets that should probably stay buried. Meanwhile, Tab’s wife is prepping for a mysterious guest who may or may not blow everything up. And through it all? A trio of whitetail deer wander through like woodland Beyoncé back-up dancers, serving antler realness and embodying the ecstasy (and agony) of mating season.

It’s messy. It’s absurd. It’s hilarious. It’s heartbreak in camouflage.

👉 This reading is INVITE ONLY (for now 👀), but don’t worry, the deer are talking, and the woods have ears. Stick around, because the blind is reopening soon and you’ll want to be there when it does.

Dare to fail gloriously with us. Dare to dance with deer. Dare to peek inside the blind. 🦌✨

✨🎭 STAFF PICKS: CAMERON CUEVA CLARKE 🎭✨Our co-founder and Literary Director is kicking off our brand-new Staff Picks ser...
08/12/2025

✨🎭 STAFF PICKS: CAMERON CUEVA CLARKE 🎭✨

Our co-founder and Literary Director is kicking off our brand-new Staff Picks series, and honestly? He came in swinging.

We’re talking…
📜 Quotes that live in your brain rent-free (“They’re not going to kill my stories”… chills)
🎶 Musicals that wreck you in the best way (Hadestown, Fun Home, The Last Five Years)
📚 Plays that punch you in the gut (The Pillowman, Sweat, Topdog/Underdog, True West)
🌟 Performances you wish you could’ve seen in person (Philip Seymour Hoffman in Death of a Salesman, Nathan Lane in Angels in America, Ruth Negga in Hamlet)
🔥 And the real reason he built Company of Fools: guerrilla theatre, big risks, zero fear of failure.

This list is basically a crash course in what makes Cameron tick and proof that his theatre taste is a little dangerous, a little poetic, and a lot iconic.

💬 Your turn: Drop your all-time favorite theatre line in the comments. Bonus points if it’s messy. Extra bonus points if it’s Shakespeare.

🤠🔥 THROWBACK TO TRUE WEST (2017) 🔥🤠Two brothers. One film script. Zero chill.Back in March 2017, we dove headfirst into ...
08/09/2025

🤠🔥 THROWBACK TO TRUE WEST (2017) 🔥🤠

Two brothers. One film script. Zero chill.

Back in March 2017, we dove headfirst into Sam Shepard’s True West, a Pulitzer finalist where sibling rivalry meets the California desert and the stakes are as high as the toast count. Austin’s got the “serious” love story, Lee’s got the “trashy” Western, and a producer caught in the middle just wants a hit.

Directed by Cameron Clarke and staged at The Sonnet in the Producers Club, this one had stolen typewriters, tense standoffs, and enough burnt bread to smoke out the whole neighborhood.

📷

🃏 Just because we’re not onstage doesn’t mean we’re not working.Company of Fools is deep in our plotting era, dreaming u...
08/04/2025

🃏 Just because we’re not onstage doesn’t mean we’re not working.

Company of Fools is deep in our plotting era, dreaming up new stories, forging chaotic partnerships, and scheming ways to make the theater world a little braver, queerer, and more delightfully unhinged. 💭🔥

But here’s the truth: even when the stage is dark, the hustle doesn’t stop. The rent’s still due, the inbox is still overflowing, and the coffee budget? Critically low. ☕📝💡

If you believe in theater that bites back—bold, messy, radically human—this is your moment. Support now means more stories later. And more fools, always.

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Whatever you do, we see you, we love you, and we’re so grateful. The foolishness lives on because of you.

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