About Poetic Theater Productions

Mission

Poetic Theater Productions seeks to define the modern genre of “poetic theater” by connecting and fostering a community of artists who are passionately creating relevant and accessible work and reinvigorating a conscious theater of language.  Through a multi-runged platform of developmental programming, Poetic Theater Productions offers resources and opportunities for poets, playwrights, and theater artists to develop new work and see it through to production. PTP seeks out and creates opportunities to connect with communities affected by the issues of topic within our productions, in NYC and nationwide, through collaborative projects and exchanges of art and ideas.

Leadership

Co-Artistic Directors

Jeremy Karafin founded Poetic Theater Productions in February 2010, and has since produced 24 productions, showcases and readings (20 in collaboration with Co-Artistic Director Alex Mallory) including Goliath (2011 Planet Connections Award for Outstanding Production of a New Play), Underground, faith, Foreign Bodies, and Poetic License, a festival of new poetic theater.  Jeremy founded and produced the first three seasons of the Kinetic Poetics Project, an annual spoken word and poetry festival on the west coast, now in its ninth season.  Jeremy produced a web-video in support of gay marriage with Alan Cumming and associate produced the Off-Broadway Production of No Place Called Home at 3LD-Art Center, the Wild Project, MileSquare and the cell.  Previously Jeremy was the Assistant Director of Student Media and Television Broadcast Adviser at the University of California, Santa Cruz.  Jeremy is the Assistant Manager at the Wild Project Theater in the East Village.

Alex Mallory (Director) has directed, developed and produced with Poetic Theater Productions since early 2011. Directing/developmental credits with Poetic Theater Productions include Goliath by Takeo Rivera (2011 Planet Connections Award for Outstanding Direction), faith by Caroline Rothstein (Culture Project's Women Center Stage 2012 Festival, 2012 Planet Connections Nominee for Outstanding Direction), Off the Record and Filial Therapy (Women Center Stage 2011 Directors' Weekend). She has developed work at Lark Play Development Center, Atlantic Stage II, New Georges, NYU, the Samuel French Off Off Broadway Short Play Festival, and the Bay Area Playwrights Festival and currently works at Culture Project where she produced IMPACT 2012, a six and a half week festival of political art dedicated to important issues leading up to the national election. Alex is a graduate of Stanford University, where she received the Louis Sudler Prize in Creative Arts and the Sherifa Omade Edoga Prize for work involving social issues. She is an Associate Member of SDC, a member of Directors Lab Chicago, and was a finalist for the Mike Ockrent Fellowship with George C. Wolfe through the Stage Directors and Choreographers Foundation.

Company Members

In addition to performing in our mainstage productions, our company members are also heavily involved in our developmental programming, fill staff positions on various shows and help to structure and guide the organization.