WE ARE APPLIED MECHANICS

Orbiter 3, InterAct Theatre Company, Quintessence Theatre Group, The Flea Theater, The Riot Group, Lucidity Suitcase Intercontinental, Annie Wilson, Cynthia Hopkins, Michael Kiley, Azuka Theatre, Shakespeare in Clark Park, Company of Wolves, LaMaMa Umbria, First Person Arts, Lark Play Development Center, Columbia University, University of the Arts, University of Michigan, New England Literature Program, Independence Fellowship, Artists U, Brown Martin Philadelphia Award; Director, Creator, Teacher. 

www.rebeccaswright.com/

Obvious Agency Coop, FoolsFURY, ASME Foundation, PMA (Yael Bartana), Philadelphia Artists Collective, Philadelphia Asian Performing Artists, Theatre Exile, Alma’s Engine, Spiral Q, Asian Arts Initiative, and BlackBestFriend Headlong Dance Theater (incubated artist), Swim Pony, The Painted Bride, Perfect Day, Annie Wilson. www.severinblake.com

Environmental Performance Agency, The Foundry @ PlayPenn, Flux Factory, Simpatico Theatre Company, thINKingDANCE, InterAct Theatre Company, Terminal 136, SoLow Fest, Headlong Dance Theater, Orbiter 3, Meg Foley/ moving parts, Elsewhere, Kultuuritehas Polymer, Meghann Williams, First Person Arts Festival, Anthology Project, 1812 Productions Jilline Ringle Solo Performance Program, Capital Fringe, Arden Theatre Company; Visual artist, Dancer. 

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Pig Iron School for Advanced Performance Training/ MFA in Devised Performance (2018), The Riot Group, The Flea Theater, Superhero Clubhouse, Tugboat Collective, The Bushwick Starr, Dixon Place, Young Playwrights Festival, The Eugene O’Neill Theater Center, National Theater Institute, St Petersburg Theater Arts Academy, SITI Company, Movement Theater Studio, Shakespeare on the Lawn, University of Virginia; Performance Artist, Musician, Theatermaker, Teaching Artist.

Pig Iron Theatre Company, The Arden Theatre Company, InterAct Theatre Company, The Flea Theatre, The New Ensemble, Theatre Horizon, Almanac Dance Circus Theatre, Geva Theatre, Actors Theatre of Louisville.

(they/them) is a performer and playwright who received the F Otto Haas emerging artist award in 2017. They graduated from the Lecoq School of Movement in Paris on 2008 and have been making strange and interesting things in Philly ever since. Their play Peaceable Kingdom won the Philadelphia Award of the Virginia Brown Martin Fund in 2017. They have been a company member of the Bearded Ladies, Orbiter 3, and of course Applied Mechanics. Www.Marytuomanen.com

RESIDENT DESIGNER

The Riot Group, Swim Pony Performing Arts, InterAct Theatre Company, Arden Theatre Company, 1812, New Paradise Laboratories, The Berserker Residents, The Wilma Theatre, People’s Light, Theater Horizon, MPA, Signature Theater, Bristol Riverside Theater, UArts, Temple University, Hampshire College, 2015 Independence Fellowship, 2019 Pew Fellowship; Lighting, Scenography, Graphic, Web + Game Design.   www.mariashaplin.com

Applied Mechanics is a visionary, multiracial collective of queer and genderqueer theater artists. We make performances that surround you: in theaters, warehouses, galleries, schools, punk rock venues, in the streets, online, and in your own home.

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Applied Mechanics is a visionary, multiracial collective of queer and genderqueer theater artists. We make performances that surround you: in theaters, warehouses, galleries, schools, punk rock venues, in the streets, online, and in your own home.  

Our work creates lush, layered spaces that envelop the audience.  Multiple histories unfold there, and each weaves a different perspective — you choose which thread to follow. At every turn, there is an invitation: you might choose to join a dinner party, dance at a concert, start a protest, or spin the dial on a radio station. Seating is optional, accessibility is primary, and each audience member creates their own experience. Welcome! We’re so glad you are here.

Our plays tell stories of radical transformation. We reimagine history in order to envision a more just future — the most urgent work of this generation. We are calling a new society into being. The society we want is collaborative and non-hierarchical. It is unapologetically pro-Black, pro-Indigenous, ecofeminist and anti-capitalist. The way we make art is inextricable from the art we make. Our work empowers artists and enkindles community with audiences. We want our collaborators – artists and audiences alike – to leave our performances inspired towards agency, connection, wild imagination, mutual aid, and the joyful work of building new futures.

Imagination is a call to action. The portal is open. We invite you to dream. 

LAND ACKNOWLEDGEMENT

We recognize and acknowledge that the work of Applied Mechanics occurs on the traditional homelands of the Lenni-Lenape, the territory known as Lenapehoking. 

Applied Mechanics is in-process of learning ways that our company can support the Lenni-Lenape people and we invite you to join us in solidarity. The Lenni-Lenape are the original stewards to this land we stand on before it was stolen from them. As reparation, Applied Mechanics pays a monthly land tax of $100 each month to a Lenape-led organization. We recognize this does not take the place of authentic relationships with Native communities, but a first step in honoring the land we occupy.

This year, we are donating to the Lenape Cultural Center 

We encourage you to donate online to any of the following:

Colonization is an ongoing process, with Native lands still occupied due to deceptive and broken treaties. All people who own or live on these lands should initiate reparations with Native communities and organizations. You can learn more at: 

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