Blessed Unrest | theatre for the adventurous

Support the Next 25 Years

This is not an easy time to be running an arts organization in this country, and more than ever we need to support freedom of artistic expression.

Anything you can contribute will go directly to keeping artistic home fires burning for our beloved Ensemble. Support the creation of impactful new work and the continuation of affordable community spaces for NYC physical theatre artists!

If you are unable to give at this time, please spread the word in your community and encourage them to contribute $25 in honor of our 25th season. Many hands make light work of achieving our goal. Blessed Unrest is an artist-run 501(c)3 organization, and all donations are fully tax deductible.

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What Your Donation Will Accomplish

$10... funds the printing of one script (something we do a lot of in the new play development world!)

$25... funds one free student ticket to a Blessed Unrest production

$50... funds one hour of rehearsal space

$100... funds one run crew member for a single performance

$200... funds four hours of rental space, which is enough for one Training Ensemble session (held biweekly, free for all who attend)

$750... funds one artist's stipend for a developmental workshop production

$1000... funds the stipend for one designer working on our spring production

Support Blessed Unrest Today

Blessed Unrest is a subversive physical theater ensemble that transforms new and classic plays into channels for unexpected alchemy, energetic discomfort, and complex articulation. Through a dedicated and diverse ensemble, international collaborations, and a rigorous training and devising process, we are fueled by the innate human desire to collaborate, the thrill of the impossible challenge, and the instinctual need to rebel. We teach our methods of physical theatre and devising to university students across the country and internationally through workshops and residencies.

We have performed at New York Theatre Workshop Next Door, Public Theater, P.S. 122, New Ohio Theatre, Baruch Performing Arts Center, Interart Theatre, NYU’s Loewe Theatre, Columbia University, Manhattan School of Music, San Francisco’s Exit Theatre, Emelin Theatre in Westchester, the Provincetown Tennessee Williams Theater Festival and on international tours in Western Europe and the Balkans. We have staged thirty-two full productions in New York (nineteen world premieres), including original devised plays, adaptations of classics, and stagings of established scripts. See our past productions here.

Recently

Yale Innovation Summit

Artistic Director, Jessica Burr was honored to be a part of the Arts & Innovation: Centering Creators in the Creative Economy panel at the annual Yale Innovation Summit which, for the very first time ever included an Arts Track, helmed by the Midnight Oil Collective. Watch excerpts from the panel below.

“What happens is that the surrounding structures get valued more than the art itself, more than the process. We are supposed to make something from nothing in about three weeks' time. If we are going to be allowed to do our job in society: to see your heart, to heal your soul, to understand the inside of the human condition, we need to be allowed process. We need time, we need resources.”