Irondale Ensemble Project

Irondale Ensemble is an experimental theatre company founded in New York City in 1983. Since then, they have produced forty major Off Broadway shows and mounted two international and three domestic tours. Now housed in a new centre in Brooklyn New York, the Irondale Ensemble Project descends from the ensemble movement in American theatre. This movement came out of the Great Depression and developed throughout the age of progressive politics during the 1960’s. [Taken from the company's website: irondale.org] Irondale Ensemble Project creates theatre that is a voice for social change and has performed in schools, prisons, shelters, and other community settings. Central to their work is the exploration of collaboration, creativity, pedagogy and the process of theatre-making through the long association of theatre artists working as an ensemble. [Taken from the website for the Network of Ensemble Theatres:http://ensembletheaters.net/netmembers.htm] Irondale is a member of the Theatre Communications Group, the Network of Ensemble Theatres and ART New York. It is funded by the National Endowment for the Arts, the New York State Council on the Arts, and the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs.

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