WE ARE APPLIED MECHANICS

Orbiter 3, InterAct Theatre Company, Quintessence Theatre Group, The Flea Theater, The Riot Group, Lucidity Suitcase Intercontinental, Annie Wilson, Cynthia Hopkins, Michael Kiley, Azuka Theatre, Shakespeare in Clark Park, Company of Wolves, LaMaMa Umbria, First Person Arts, Lark Play Development Center, Columbia University, University of the Arts, University of Michigan, New England Literature Program, Independence Fellowship, Artists U, Brown Martin Philadelphia Award; Director, Creator, Teacher. 

www.rebeccaswright.com/

Obvious Agency Coop, FoolsFURY, ASME Foundation, PMA (Yael Bartana), Philadelphia Artists Collective, Philadelphia Asian Performing Artists, Theatre Exile, Alma’s Engine, Spiral Q, Asian Arts Initiative, and BlackBestFriend Headlong Dance Theater (incubated artist), Swim Pony, The Painted Bride, Perfect Day, Annie Wilson. www.severinblake.com

Pig Iron School for Advanced Performance Training/ MFA in Devised Performance (2018), The Riot Group, The Flea Theater, Superhero Clubhouse, Tugboat Collective, The Bushwick Starr, Dixon Place, Young Playwrights Festival, The Eugene O’Neill Theater Center, National Theater Institute, St Petersburg Theater Arts Academy, SITI Company, Movement Theater Studio, Shakespeare on the Lawn, University of Virginia; Performance Artist, Musician, Theatermaker, Teaching Artist.

Pig Iron Theatre Company, The Arden Theatre Company, InterAct Theatre Company, The Flea Theatre, The New Ensemble, Theatre Horizon, Almanac Dance Circus Theatre, Geva Theatre, Actors Theatre of Louisville.

(they/them) is a performer and playwright who received the F Otto Haas emerging artist award in 2017. They graduated from the Lecoq School of Movement in Paris on 2008 and have been making strange and interesting things in Philly ever since. Their play Peaceable Kingdom won the Philadelphia Award of the Virginia Brown Martin Fund in 2017. They have been a company member of the Bearded Ladies, Orbiter 3, and of course Applied Mechanics. Www.Marytuomanen.com

ADMINISTRATIVE ASST.

ANDREW BEAL

RESIDENT DESIGNER

The Riot Group, Swim Pony Performing Arts, InterAct Theatre Company, Arden Theatre Company, 1812, New Paradise Laboratories, The Berserker Residents, The Wilma Theatre, People’s Light, Theater Horizon, MPA, Signature Theater, Bristol Riverside Theater, UArts, Temple University, Hampshire College, 2015 Independence Fellowship, 2019 Pew Fellowship; Lighting, Scenography, Graphic, Web + Game Design.   www.mariashaplin.com

SOCIAL MEDIA MANAGER & PUBLICIST

GRAYCE CARSON

Applied Mechanics makes performances that surround you: in theaters, warehouses, galleries, schools, punk rock venues, in the streets, online, and in your own home.

HERSTORY
OUR BOARD

OUR MISSION

Applied Mechanics is a visionary multiracial collective of queer artists that makes immersive theater. Our plays are lush, layered worlds that surround the audience and tell stories of radical transformation. The way we make art is indivisible from the art we make: collaborative, non-hierarchical, multiplicitous. Our art inspires agency, connection, care, and the joyful work of building new futures.

VALUES

Applied Mechanics makes plays motored by an activist, utopian ethos. Our process centers on research, co-authorship, and play, emphasizing cooperation and collective decision making.  Our productions are intricate immersive worlds that hold many stories. We value each person’s unique contribution to the work that we do together. As a collective, we are feminist, anti-racist, anti-capitalist, anti-colonial, pro-queer, egalitarian, pro-Indigenous, and pro-Black. Our performance works and our artistic process are playful, joyful, rigorous, curious, fantastical, generous, and liberatory.

VISION

Applied Mechanics’ work creates lush, layered spaces that envelop the audience.  Multiple histories unfold there, each weaves a different perspective, and you decide which thread to follow. At every turn, there is an invitation: you might choose to join a dinner party, dance at a concert, start a protest, or spin the dial on a radio station. Seating is optional, points of access are multiplicitous, each audience member creates their own experience, and together these experiences create a whole. We reimagine history in order to envision a more just future — the most urgent work of this generation. Plays are opportunities to build new stories. Welcome! We’re so glad you are here. 

LAND ACKNOWLEDGEMENT

We recognize and acknowledge that the work of Applied Mechanics occurs on the traditional homelands of the Lenni-Lenape, the territory known as Lenapehoking. 

Applied Mechanics is in-process of learning ways that our company can support the Lenni-Lenape people and we invite you to join us in solidarity. The Lenni-Lenape are the original stewards to this land we stand on before it was stolen from them. As reparation, Applied Mechanics pays a monthly land tax of $100 each month to a Lenape-led organization. We recognize this does not take the place of authentic relationships with Native communities, but a first step in honoring the land we occupy.

This year, we are donating to the Lenape Cultural Center 

We encourage you to donate online to any of the following:

Colonization is an ongoing process, with Native lands still occupied due to deceptive and broken treaties. All people who own or live on these lands should initiate reparations with Native communities and organizations. You can learn more at: 

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