production history
Since our founding in 2017, Artistic Director Ashley Teague and Notch have engaged with 19 communities across 12 states and Rwanda.
Up in 2020:
January 28th, 2020: Wild Home: An American Odyssey presents at Live@Jacks in collaboration with GoodCinema and The Colorado Environmental Film Festival in Denver, Colorado.
Notch - will be fiscally sponsoring Black Spatial Relics - a new performance residency about slavery, justice and freedom.
April 2020: Awarded a Network of Ensemble Theatre's Exchange grant, Wild Home kicks off in Ohio, partnering with communities of the Wayne National Forest
Notch partners with Wingspace Theatrical Design to fiscally sponsor a relief fund, providing unrestricted rapid relief microgrants to freelance designers and dramaturges experiencing acute financial strain related to COVID-19.
Notch partners with Wingspace Theatrical Design to form the Wingspace Relief Fund and issues over $50,000 in microgrants to artists experiencing acute financial strain from COVID-19.
April/May 2020: Notch received a residency with HB Studio in New York City to workshop a new playin spring 2020. Due to COVID-19, the residency has been rescheduled for fall/winter 2020. We presented a reading of the project in development remotely.
May 2020: Notch launches Voices from a Pandemic.
Remember2019 is launches a digital archive of over 100 stories from the Black community of the Arkansas Delta.
June 2020: Wild Home is awarded an NEA Art Works grant.
Monument Lab released a four part series on Remember2019Remember2019 where the creators discuss vision and values, process, aesthetics, and impact.
July 2020: Chautauqua Theater Company invites Notch to workshop Voices from a Pandemic with their company of actors in western New York.
Remember2019's releases Black Cypress: A Black Survival Guide in South Phillips County, Arkansas.
Fall 2020: HB Studio residency to workshop a new play us slated to resume.
Production History 2019:
April 2019: Wild Home presented at Delicious Orchards in Hotchkiss, Colorado on Saturday, April 27th.
June 2019: Remember2019 presented Black 'N Da Blues: Stories and Songs from the Arkansas Delta 1919-2019 in the Miller Annex at the Delta Cultural Center in Helena, AR on June 17th and at Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art in Bentonville, Arkansas on June 23rd.
Plus a workshop and staged reading of Anna Karenina took place at HB Studios in New York on June 27th.
July 2019: Artistic Director, Ashley Teague traveled to Rwanda to collaborate with The Peace Studio on development of a piece that brings Rwandan and American artists together to reflect on the Rwandan Genocide. Tour of this piece is slated for the states in 2021.
August 2019: Notch hosted an artist residency on the Broad River in North Carolina to workshop an original adaptation of an all-female Moby Dick by Gwen Kingston.
September/October 2019: Remember2019 presented a series of events (including the callin' down the road residency) to commemorate the centennial of the 1919 Elaine mass lynching in Arkansas and Mississippi.
November 2019: The Flea Theater in NYC announces Notch as one of their anchor partners.
November/December 2019: Our Anna Karenina project played at The Flea Theatre in New York City from November 23rd through December 20th.
On December 12th, Artistic Director, Ashley Teague presented on the Wild Home program at the Conservation Foundation in Sarasota, Florida.
Production History 2018:
January/February 2018: Notch received a $10,000 Exchange Grant from Network of Ensemble Theatres Remember2019.
March 2018: Thanks to a generous commission by Trinity Repertory Company, we presented a workshop of FIT in partnership with Spectrum Theatre Ensemble, a theatre company dedicated to working with neuro-diverse actors on March 17th, 18th & 19th at 87 Empire St, Providence, Rhode Island 02903. The showings were free and open to the public.
April 2018: Notch and a team of nine artists and musicians workshopped the first iteration of Anna Karenina in Mineral Wells, Texas.
May 2018: Notch produced a reading of FIT at La Mama Studios in NYC on May 18th. The workshop invited local producers and theaters to support the play in becoming a fully realized NYC production. And Notch received a $30,000 MAP Fund grant for Remember2019.
June 2018: Remember2019 hosted a story sharing institute and Juneteenth Celebration in South Phillips County, Arkansas June 18-19.
July 2018: We kicked off our new partnership with The Wilderness Society, traveling to the North Fork of the Gunnison region of Colorado to conduct story circles for Wild Home. And Mauricio Salgado and Arielle Julia Brown spoke at the Children's Defense Fund Proctor Conference about Remember2019.
August 2018: Wild Home director Ashley Teague and playwright Jessica Kahkoska were invited to a creative residency in Montana and Utah with the Taft-Nicholson Center.
September/October 2018: Remember2019 presented Black 'N Da Blues: Stories and Songs from the Arkansas Delta 1919-2019 in Phillips County, Arkansas, September 29th - October 2nd. And HowlRound Article featured our Wild Home program (formerly the Too Wild To Drill program).
November 2018: Notch was invited to White Heron Theatre on Nantucket to workshop our new rock opera, adaptation of Anna Karenina.
December 2018: Our Wild Home program returned to the North Fork Valley of Colorado for a first reading of an original play based on community testimony. And Remember2019 collective members Arielle Julia Brown and Mauricio Salgado spoke about the program at the National Performance Network's annual Conference.
Production History 2017:
May 2017: Founding Artistic Director, Ashley Teague received the 2017 Embark Fellowship Grant for Social Innovation in Entrepreneurship and raised over $30,000 in matching contributions to launch Notch Theatre Company. Additionally, Teague directed a production of Invasion! by Jonah Hassem Khemiri at Brown University, giving students and faculty a chance to come together to discuss Islamophobia in thier community.
June 2017/July 2017: Notch developed and directed a new play for the Chautauqua Institute (in Chautauqua, New York) which put local stories on stage and explored how our nation and its diverse communities are or are not communicating.
July 2017/August 2017: Remember2019 spent over a month South Phillips County, Arkansas working alongside community partners The Delta Cultural Center (DCC), Waves of Prayer Ministries, The Elaine Legacy Center, The Boys and Girls Club of Helena and West Helena, and the Boys, Girls, Adults Community Development Center (BGACDC) in Marvel. We developed several joint-explorations including a community mural for the Visual and Performing Arts Project at the BGACDC, a summer theatre program for 60 to 70 youth, and the co-production of a staged reading of Scapegoat by Christina Ham, a play that looks at the mass lynching of 1919 and takes place in South Phillips County. For more on those events visit remember2019.org
October 2017: Notch workshopped FIT at White Heron Theatre on Nantucket in Massachusets. To see images form that workshop and read N Magazine's cover click here.
November 2017: Notch partnered with a middle school in East San Jose, California, to pilot an innovative, community-engaged theatre program offering youth a place to voice and explore challenging issues through artistic medium.
December 2017: Notch received our official nonprofit status from the federal government!!!
January 28th, 2020: Wild Home: An American Odyssey presents at Live@Jacks in collaboration with GoodCinema and The Colorado Environmental Film Festival in Denver, Colorado.
Notch - will be fiscally sponsoring Black Spatial Relics - a new performance residency about slavery, justice and freedom.
April 2020: Awarded a Network of Ensemble Theatre's Exchange grant, Wild Home kicks off in Ohio, partnering with communities of the Wayne National Forest
Notch partners with Wingspace Theatrical Design to fiscally sponsor a relief fund, providing unrestricted rapid relief microgrants to freelance designers and dramaturges experiencing acute financial strain related to COVID-19.
Notch partners with Wingspace Theatrical Design to form the Wingspace Relief Fund and issues over $50,000 in microgrants to artists experiencing acute financial strain from COVID-19.
April/May 2020: Notch received a residency with HB Studio in New York City to workshop a new playin spring 2020. Due to COVID-19, the residency has been rescheduled for fall/winter 2020. We presented a reading of the project in development remotely.
May 2020: Notch launches Voices from a Pandemic.
Remember2019 is launches a digital archive of over 100 stories from the Black community of the Arkansas Delta.
June 2020: Wild Home is awarded an NEA Art Works grant.
Monument Lab released a four part series on Remember2019Remember2019 where the creators discuss vision and values, process, aesthetics, and impact.
July 2020: Chautauqua Theater Company invites Notch to workshop Voices from a Pandemic with their company of actors in western New York.
Remember2019's releases Black Cypress: A Black Survival Guide in South Phillips County, Arkansas.
Fall 2020: HB Studio residency to workshop a new play us slated to resume.
Production History 2019:
April 2019: Wild Home presented at Delicious Orchards in Hotchkiss, Colorado on Saturday, April 27th.
June 2019: Remember2019 presented Black 'N Da Blues: Stories and Songs from the Arkansas Delta 1919-2019 in the Miller Annex at the Delta Cultural Center in Helena, AR on June 17th and at Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art in Bentonville, Arkansas on June 23rd.
Plus a workshop and staged reading of Anna Karenina took place at HB Studios in New York on June 27th.
July 2019: Artistic Director, Ashley Teague traveled to Rwanda to collaborate with The Peace Studio on development of a piece that brings Rwandan and American artists together to reflect on the Rwandan Genocide. Tour of this piece is slated for the states in 2021.
August 2019: Notch hosted an artist residency on the Broad River in North Carolina to workshop an original adaptation of an all-female Moby Dick by Gwen Kingston.
September/October 2019: Remember2019 presented a series of events (including the callin' down the road residency) to commemorate the centennial of the 1919 Elaine mass lynching in Arkansas and Mississippi.
November 2019: The Flea Theater in NYC announces Notch as one of their anchor partners.
November/December 2019: Our Anna Karenina project played at The Flea Theatre in New York City from November 23rd through December 20th.
On December 12th, Artistic Director, Ashley Teague presented on the Wild Home program at the Conservation Foundation in Sarasota, Florida.
Production History 2018:
January/February 2018: Notch received a $10,000 Exchange Grant from Network of Ensemble Theatres Remember2019.
March 2018: Thanks to a generous commission by Trinity Repertory Company, we presented a workshop of FIT in partnership with Spectrum Theatre Ensemble, a theatre company dedicated to working with neuro-diverse actors on March 17th, 18th & 19th at 87 Empire St, Providence, Rhode Island 02903. The showings were free and open to the public.
April 2018: Notch and a team of nine artists and musicians workshopped the first iteration of Anna Karenina in Mineral Wells, Texas.
May 2018: Notch produced a reading of FIT at La Mama Studios in NYC on May 18th. The workshop invited local producers and theaters to support the play in becoming a fully realized NYC production. And Notch received a $30,000 MAP Fund grant for Remember2019.
June 2018: Remember2019 hosted a story sharing institute and Juneteenth Celebration in South Phillips County, Arkansas June 18-19.
July 2018: We kicked off our new partnership with The Wilderness Society, traveling to the North Fork of the Gunnison region of Colorado to conduct story circles for Wild Home. And Mauricio Salgado and Arielle Julia Brown spoke at the Children's Defense Fund Proctor Conference about Remember2019.
August 2018: Wild Home director Ashley Teague and playwright Jessica Kahkoska were invited to a creative residency in Montana and Utah with the Taft-Nicholson Center.
September/October 2018: Remember2019 presented Black 'N Da Blues: Stories and Songs from the Arkansas Delta 1919-2019 in Phillips County, Arkansas, September 29th - October 2nd. And HowlRound Article featured our Wild Home program (formerly the Too Wild To Drill program).
November 2018: Notch was invited to White Heron Theatre on Nantucket to workshop our new rock opera, adaptation of Anna Karenina.
December 2018: Our Wild Home program returned to the North Fork Valley of Colorado for a first reading of an original play based on community testimony. And Remember2019 collective members Arielle Julia Brown and Mauricio Salgado spoke about the program at the National Performance Network's annual Conference.
Production History 2017:
May 2017: Founding Artistic Director, Ashley Teague received the 2017 Embark Fellowship Grant for Social Innovation in Entrepreneurship and raised over $30,000 in matching contributions to launch Notch Theatre Company. Additionally, Teague directed a production of Invasion! by Jonah Hassem Khemiri at Brown University, giving students and faculty a chance to come together to discuss Islamophobia in thier community.
June 2017/July 2017: Notch developed and directed a new play for the Chautauqua Institute (in Chautauqua, New York) which put local stories on stage and explored how our nation and its diverse communities are or are not communicating.
July 2017/August 2017: Remember2019 spent over a month South Phillips County, Arkansas working alongside community partners The Delta Cultural Center (DCC), Waves of Prayer Ministries, The Elaine Legacy Center, The Boys and Girls Club of Helena and West Helena, and the Boys, Girls, Adults Community Development Center (BGACDC) in Marvel. We developed several joint-explorations including a community mural for the Visual and Performing Arts Project at the BGACDC, a summer theatre program for 60 to 70 youth, and the co-production of a staged reading of Scapegoat by Christina Ham, a play that looks at the mass lynching of 1919 and takes place in South Phillips County. For more on those events visit remember2019.org
October 2017: Notch workshopped FIT at White Heron Theatre on Nantucket in Massachusets. To see images form that workshop and read N Magazine's cover click here.
November 2017: Notch partnered with a middle school in East San Jose, California, to pilot an innovative, community-engaged theatre program offering youth a place to voice and explore challenging issues through artistic medium.
December 2017: Notch received our official nonprofit status from the federal government!!!
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