Anomalous Co.

06/05/2026

05/20/2026

“The Rise and the Fall” is a savage feminist cabaret-songspiel that hijacks Brecht’s “Mahagonny” and detonates it inside the wreckage of late capitalism: a gangster dystopia of oil rigs, whorehouses, boxing rings, climate collapse, and political rot, performed in high-camp drag by a multi-ethnic, immigrant, multilingual ensemble of women and gender-diverse performers. Blending post-punk concert-theatre, burlesque, circus aerials, and staged spectacle, the piece tears into necropolitics, extractionism, misogyny, and authoritarian spectacle with ferocity and q***r excess, transforming Brecht’s critique of capitalism into an incendiary feminist indictment of the systems that consume bodies, desire, dignity, autonomy.

Written and Directed by Kathryn Mederos Syssoyeva
Produced by Diana Zhdanova and Kathryn Mederos Syssoyeva of AnomalousCo

Established in 2015, AnomalousCo is a q***r-women-led, nearly-all-immigrant, entirely-feminist theatre ensemble, collaboratively creating original works at the intersection of drama, political cabaret, circus arts, immersive performance, and music theatre. Our work has been seen across the US, Europe, and globally online.

05/09/2026

EXCITING NEWS! 🔥

Casting cis women, transmasc, nonbinary, and genderq***r performers whose experience of gender is informed by having been raised and socialized as female.

This production approaches all gender as drag—stylized, performative, camp.

We are especially interested in multilingual, intergenerational, immigrant artists from the global majority and from a range of cultural and diasporic backgrounds.

We are seeking multidisciplinary performers with professional performance experience across the following disciplines:

-actors
-musicians & singers
-dancers & movement theatre artists
-burlesque performers
-aerial artists

APPLY: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSdwrHoF53si4YBRMbG4KgaL_3HaTnPOElKEywT_VdV8x2xjwQ/viewform?usp=header

05/09/2026

ANOMALOUSCO is Thrilled to announce that we have received a THREE-MONTH - FIFE CoHo - RESIDENCY for development of a major new work (details soon!). We are proud to be a Founding Member of the Bechdel Project’s BECHDEL PROJECT FIFE CoHo (Feminism is for Everybody Cooperative Cohort) Pilot Program (April–June 2026).

04/08/2026

Best Director in Feminist Drama

Kathryn Mederos Syssoyeva has won the Jean Dalrymple Award for Best Director in Feminist Drama for “(beyond) Doomsday Scrolling” (2025), presented at the American Theatre of Actors’ 50th Anniversary Gala at the Penn Club in New York.

“This recognition belongs to all of us at AnomalousCo,” Syssoyeva said, honoring the collective devising process behind the production.

We thank Jessica Jennings and American Theatre of Actors - ATA - est. 1976 for that recognition.

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