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Award-winning Blessed Unrest Theatre Company is holding auditions for our Training Ensemble! We are seeking humans, storytellers, movers, actors & dancers who want to be a part of a community committed to the exploration of time, space and text in order to better ourselves and the world.

We are intentionally seeking individuals that make up the rich multi-cultural identities of NYC and beyond. We believe that every body has a unique story to tell, and acknowledge that the collision of race, gender, cultural background & other identities brings necessary and important elements to the creation of well-rounded art. We invite and welcome these complexities to our Ensemble.

The Training Ensemble meets twice a month in NYC locations, for 4 hours per session, delving deep into physical practices & techniques that we’ve been developing for over 20 years to continually expand the possibilities for transformation and rich theatre-making.

Do you have an interest in joining a community like this? Perhaps you’ve always wanted to but have never had the opportunity? Do you have a unique cultural perspective on how bodies move through space? Are you a mover/performer and seek a community of diverse, like-hearted individuals to keep you fresh and responsive to the world around you? Blessed Unrest can be a home for you!

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.”