IS A THEATER COMPANY:
Obsessed with the collapse of civilization, capitalism, narrative, and everything else we think is secure.
INCORPORATES:
Bread, beer, foliage, dirt, flashlights, knives, swings, broken language, tarps, logs, suspenders, and the audience itself.
WANTS TO:
Push us and seduce us at the same time.
HAS MADE WORK IN:
Church basements, college classrooms, and 750-seat theaters.
THINKS:
"Theater is going to piss off somebody, so let's go ahead and piss off everybody."
DREAMS OF:
An audience so diverse that "the people laughing will always be self-conscious about when the people next to them aren't laughing."
CREATED THE DRAG CHARACTER JINKX MONSOON:
On the sly, at the age of 15, in his grandma's wig.
DESCRIBES JINKX AS:
"Like if you put Meryl Streep, Madeline Kahn, Carol Burnett, Sarah Silverman, Lucille Ball, and my mom in a blender."
IS CLASSICALLY TRAINED IN THEATER BUT LOVES:
"The funny parts in movies where the glamorous woman falls down the stairs."
Read about all fifteen of the 2014 Genius Award nominees here.