Troy Foundry Theatre

10/13/2026

Something is…BECOMING.
We are ecstatic about the projects in development and the artists collaborating to bring them to life for our 4th Half-Baked Festival of Emerging Work. Come be a part of the development process, meet the playwrights, and have an…unsettlingly (fun) time with us!

All performances at 7:30pm at
19 3rd St. Troy, NY. Theater entrance is at the BACK of the building. Entry through Franklin Alley to the right of Bootleggers on Broadway.

This is a donate what you can fest!
Visit our website for reservations.

10/08/2026

HALF-BAKED 2026 PROGRAMMING!!!!

Come help us celebrate plays in development! New plays need audiences to keep breathing. This year all plays have something in common, and let’s just say….its a bit….scary.

Link to reserve space in BIO.
All performance at The Waiting Room in Troy.

RESERVE SPACE —>
https://buytickets.at/troyfoundrytheatre

10/02/2026

We’ve raised $575 in 24-hours for The Half-Baked Festival of Emerging Work 2026.

$2,425 to go. Can you get us there?????

DONATE —>
https://www.paypal.com/donate/?hosted_button_id=58PK774FH4EQC

09/14/2026

ALL ACCESS PASSES ARE HERE!
🎟️ —> https://buytickets.at/troyfoundrytheatre

Half-Baked Festival of Emerging Work: BECOMING

OCTOBER 23-30 at The Waiting Room
(19 3rd St. Troy, NY 12180)

Our traditional ALL ACCESS passes are now on sale and include access to ALL FESTIVAL EVENTS. This is the BEST way to celebrate and support the creators and projects in our Fest!

Troy Foundry Theatre returns with the fourth annual Half-Baked Festival of Emerging Work, running October 23-30 at The Waiting Room (19 3rd St. in Troy, NY). This festival celebrates the unfinished, the audacious, and the revolutionary in theatre-making. We believe some of the most exciting theatrical discoveries happen in development—when work is still breathing, evolving, and finding its voice. Programming will include a rotating blend of new plays, devised work-in-progress, and non-traditional projects that explore fear, transformation, power, desire, the body, the supernatural, memory, myth, and the strange possibilities of being human. Specific programming and schedule will be announced soon.

See you out there!

08/27/2026

Eloise is extremely good at compartmentalizing. As a PhD candidate in experimental medicine at NYU who moonlights as a high-end es**rt to New York’s wealthiest clientele, she expertly keeps her worlds apart. When she discovers that the lab she works for is fabricating data just weeks before human trials, her carefully constructed worlds collapse, and the characters she’s kept at a distance enter the stage. Body of Work is a dark comedy about the overlap between intellectual, emotional, and performative labor, following Eloise as she navigates ambition, moral ambiguity, and the fragile boundaries between work, identity, and love.

We are hosting playwright and performer Rigel Harris at TFT this week and next for a developmental workshop of this new play! The workshop is directed by Britt Berke with performances by Rigel Harris, Ethan Botwick, Dan Costello & Raya Malcolm.

If you’d like an invitation to attend the free private reading at the end of the workshop on Thursday, September 3rd fill out this form —>
https://forms.gle/zwaC79bod4wozsoF6

08/13/2026

We are incredibly excited and lucky to welcome Rigel Harris (she/her) to Troy, NY to workshop her new play, BODY OF WORK. The piece follows Harris as Eloise, a PhD candidate in experimental medicine at NYU who moonlights as a high-end es**rt to New York’s wealthiest clientele. Eloise expertly keeps her worlds apart — until love and a fabricated drug trial force them to collide. A dark comedy about ambition, moral ambiguity, and the fragile boundaries between work, identity, and love.

The workshop is directed by Britt Berke, with performances by Rigel Harris, Ethan Botwick, Dan Costello & Raya Malcolm, and is supported by funds from the TFT Creation Initiative and A.R.T./New York.

Email us at [email protected] if you’re interested in getting an invite to the free private staged reading on Thursday 9/3 in Troy, NY!!!

About the creator:
An alum of Skidmore College, Harris’s other previous work includes productions at Saratoga Shakespeare Company, The Bushwick Starr, JAG Productions, Actors Theatre of Louisville, The Repertory Theatre of St. Louis, Northern Stage, and others. As a writer, she has worked for Showtime Networks and was a selected playwright for Jackalope Theatre’s 2021 Playwrights Lab.

08/03/2026

Alert! We only need to raise $2,500 more to meet our goal! Are you the theater hero we need?

Donate to the TFT CREATION INITIATIVE—->
https://www.paypal.com/donate/?hosted_button_id=58PK774FH4EQC

Donation link below & in the comments!

At TFT we believe some of the most exciting artistic discoveries happen during development—when work is still breathing, evolving, and finding its voice, and that’s exactly what the TFT Creation Initiative is all about.

The funds raised for this initiative go directly toward supporting local and national artists selected for week-long workshop opportunities with TFT throughout the year and at the Half-Baked Festival of Emerging Work, paying for the resources involved in workshopping, rehearsing, and presenting new projects in their earliest stages of development. Many of these projects, supported by TFT in their very initial stages, go on to have life as full-length productions with other professional companies in Philadelphia and New York City.

We tell you this every year, and every year it’s true. We can’t produce theater without your help. Your gift is 100% tax-deductible—and it goes directly toward fueling artists with the time, space, and resources needed to create new work.

*The TFT Creation Initiative is supported in part by the NYSCA-A.R.T./New York Creative Opportunity Fund (A Statewide Theatre Regrant Program)*

MAKE A DONATION TODAY to the 2026 TFT CREATION INITIATIVE —>
https://www.paypal.com/donate/?hosted_button_id=58PK774FH4EQC

08/02/2026

Donation link below & in the comments!

At TFT we believe some of the most exciting artistic discoveries happen during development—when work is still breathing, evolving, and finding its voice, and that’s exactly what the TFT Creation Initiative is all about.

The funds raised for this initiative go directly toward supporting local and national artists selected for week-long workshop opportunities with TFT throughout the year and at the Half-Baked Festival of Emerging Work, paying for the resources involved in workshopping, rehearsing, and presenting new projects in their earliest stages of development. Many of these projects, supported by TFT in their very initial stages, go on to have life as full-length productions with other professional companies in Philadelphia and New York City.

We tell you this every year, and every year it’s true. We can’t produce theater without your help. Your gift is 100% tax-deductible—and it goes directly toward fueling artists with the time, space, and resources needed to create new work.

*The TFT Creation Initiative is supported in part by the NYSCA-A.R.T./New York Creative Opportunity Fund (A Statewide Theatre Regrant Program)*

MAKE A DONATION TODAY to the 2026 TFT CREATION INITIATIVE —>
https://www.paypal.com/donate/?hosted_button_id=58PK774FH4EQC

07/14/2026

FULL SUBMISSION INFO —>
https://www.troyfoundrytheatre.com/programming

We are seeking submissions for the 2026 Half-Baked Festival of Emerging Work. Now in its fourth year, this fest celebrates the unfinished, the audacious, and the revolutionary in theatre-making. Half-Baked exists to support projects that are searching, questioning, transforming, and taking creative risks. If your work is strange, ambitious, unsettling, genre-defying, impossible to categorize, or beautifully unfinished, we want to see it.

For this year’s festival, we are particularly interested in
projects inspired directly or indirectly by genres and themes like: Horror, body horror, cosmic terror, folk horror, gothic horror, romantic horror, psychological thriller, dystopia, speculative fiction, monsters, hauntings, transformation, s*x and death, the uncanny, apocalypse, grief, obsession, desire, and the grotesque.

And/Or by creators and writers like:
Angela Carter, Ari Aster, Branden Jacobs-Jenkins, Carmen Maria Machado, Caryl Churchill, Curry Barker, David Cronenberg, Guillermo del Toro, Han Kang, Helen Oyeyemi, H.P. Lovecraft, Jackie Sibblies Drury, Jane Schoenbrun, Jennifer Kent, Jeremy O. Harris, Jordan Peele, Julia Ducournau, Karyn Kusama, Kelly Link, Margaret Atwood, Mariana Enríquez, María Irene Fornés, Mary Shelley, Nia DaCosta, N.K. Jemisin, Octavia Butler, Osgood Perkins, Sarah Kane, Shirley Jackson, Silvia Moreno-Garcia, Suzan-Lori Parks, Tananarive Due, Toni Morrison, Young Jean Lee, and Quiara Alegría Hudes.

03/24/2026

Paine Castle has returned to business as usual — no longer whispering the secrets of Americana Cosplay through its corridors or shivering with the particular electricity of an audience member holding its breath in a room that time forgot. Our latest production has packed up, the Die-Cast team has returned to Philadelphia (and beyond), and we’ve surrendered those magnificent rooms back to the Fraternity brothers and the March cold. But not before reminding every single person who wandered through Americana Cosplay that we are thankful for your time, participation, support, and engagement. You are what makes this theatre go round!

Spring is creeping up the Hudson, the days are getting longer, the forsythia is about to make its annual dramatic entrance, and there is something almost unbearably hopeful about this time of year — the way the world insists, against all evidence of the long winter, that beautiful things are not only possible but inevitable. And we feel exactly the same way about what’s coming next for TFT.

As always, you know we have fun, exciting, slightly unhinged new work on the horizon, in found spaces with stories aching to be told, and we cannot wait to share them with you. It does, however, require your support to keep going. Specifically, it requires a donation — offered freely and with the same wild trust you’ve shown us in the past when we’ve said “pick a room” or “follow an actor” with little to no other directive. That trust you give us is everything!

If it feels like we are always asking for money, we are! Making ends meet as a small not-for-profit theatre company that supports the creation and presentation of new plays in Upstate New York is HARD, and it gets harder every single day. But we believe in what we do. And if you do too, making a tax-deductible donation today is the best way to show that.

You can click the link below to do just that.
—> http://bit.ly/TFTdonate

As always, thank you for showing your support in making new theatre!

See you soon, The TFT team ♥