Services
Whether you're bringing a new piece to life or making sure your company can do its best work together, we bring a producer's eye and an artist's heart.
Culture & Community for productions
The culture of a rehearsal room shapes what ends up on stage. We help companies build rooms where everyone can do their best, bravest work.
Cultural Dramaturgy. We work with the creative team to explore the culture of the play: who is in the story, whose voices are centered, and how the in-group and out-group dynamics in the text land with a company and an audience today.
Rehearsal Room Agreements. On the first day of rehearsal, we lead a session that pairs the culture of the play with a company agreements workshop. Then we stay on call through the process as questions come up.
Company culture support. Ongoing check-ins and conversations that help a company navigate conflict, feedback and hard moments with care, from first rehearsal through closing.
Our Culture & Community team
Melle leads every engagement with facilitators who bring restorative practice, education and theater experience into the room.
Alejandro Rodriguez
Culture & Community Facilitator
A leadership coach and communications expert who specializes in inclusive communication across diverse populations. He has led trainings on five continents, across media, finance, legal, real estate, technology, health care and academia. The son of two Cuban immigrants, Alejandro earned his degree from The Juilliard School, where he received the Michel St. Denis Prize for Outstanding Achievement.
Kate Sussman, M.Ed.
Culture & Community Facilitator
A circle keeper with the New York Peace Institute, where her restorative practice centers community building, listening and repair. An educator and special education leader with more than 30 years of experience, she has held leadership roles at Opportunity Charter School and KIPP NYC, coached teachers and school teams, facilitated for Schools Attuned and served as an external coach and mentor with Hidden Sparks. She helps groups surface quieter perspectives and move toward shared understanding and practical next steps.
Melissa Shaw
Culture & Community Facilitator
A facilitator and educator whose consultancy draws on the arts, social justice, diversity and inclusion, and social emotional learning. She is a teaching artist and creative coach with Community Word Project, Energize Your Voice and the Lulu and Leo Fund, and facilitates anti-bias programs for the Anti-Defamation League, the New Jersey State Bar Foundation, Powerful Communications and Fearless Futures. She holds an MFA from Sarah Lawrence College.
Creative and commercial producing
We shepherd new work from idea to opening: building the team, shaping the budget and the timeline, and finding the right home and audience for the piece.
Co-producing and investing (coming soon)
We partner with artists and producers on projects we believe in, bringing resources, relationships and a steady hand.
Creative development
Readings, workshops and development labs that give a script, a solo show or a new company the room to grow.