FAILURE.* We are proud losers, flops and disappointments in a world made sick by the drive to win. We create work about failure and we hold failure as a core ethical and aesthetic value. While success tends toward the finite, the ways to fail are infinite. We are grateful for our past and future failures. We devote ourselves to:

Failure as antidote to perfectionism

Failure as anti-capitalist practice

Failure as shadow work

Failure as a way of attempting the impossible

Failure as freedom

We know that Failure Theater will eventually fail, and yet we devote ourselves to this project anyway. PRAISE FAILURE!

THEATER. As more and more forces (governmental, technological, cosmetic, military) seek to strip us of our humanity, we can think of nothing better to do than to be in a room with real humans, embodying stories in real time.

*We recognize that in order to fail, we must aspire to something, and that the fear of failure can limit aspirations to conventional definitions of success. Embracing failure allows us to imagine wildly towards more equitable and accessible practices as success. For example, if we are not afraid of failing to meet a fundraising goal, we can build a budget that includes paying artists a living wage, providing childcare and meeting other access needs.