THEATRE FOR ONE
A mobile state-of-the-art performance space for one actor and one audience member.
Conceived by Artistic Director Christine Jones and designed by LOT-EK architects, Theatre for One commissions new work created specifically for this venue's one-to-one relationship. Embracing serendipity and spontaneity, Theatre for One is presented in public spaces in which audience members are invited to engage in an intimate theatrical exchange and enter the theatre space not knowing what to expect. Actor and audience member encounter each other as strangers in this suspended space and through the course of the performance allow the divisions and distinctions that separate us to dissolve.
Theatre for One has commissioned several short plays by Lynn Nottage, Jose Rivera, Bill Irwin, John Guare, David Henry Hwang, Naomi Wallace and many others for its mobile unit.
Christine Jones, Artistic Director and Creator
Christine Jones, Artistic Director and Creator
LOT/EK Architects, Theatre for One Architects
SRĐA, Associate Artistic Director
True Love Productions, Originating Producer
Christine Jones
Christine Jones is a Tony-award winning set designer and the Artistic Director of the critically acclaimed Theatre for One. She directed the immersive nightclub dining experience, Queen of the Night, in New York, which won a Drama Desk for Unique Theatrical Experience in 2015. Her Olivier and Tony Award winning scenography can currently be seen on Broadway and in the original London productions of Harry Potter and the Cursed Child. She also won the Tony Award for her design of Green Day’s American Idiot. Other Broadway credits include: The Cher Show (co-designed with Brett J. Banakis); Old Times; Hands on a Hardbody; On a Clear Day; Spring Awakening (Tony Nomination); The Green Bird (Drama Desk Nomination); and Everyday Rapture. Other highlights include Coraline (MCC Theatre, NY); The Book of Longing, based on the poems of Leonard Cohen, with music by Philip Glass (Lincoln Center Festival). She designed Close To You: Bacharach Reimagined at New York Theatre Workshop and then in London at the Menier Chocolate Factory before moving to the West End. Opera designs include Rigoletto (Metropolitan opera) set in 1960s Las Vegas; The Elephant Man (Minnesota); Lucia de Lammermoor (New York City Opera); and Giulio Cesare (Houston Grand). Her designs were featured in the 2008 exhibition Curtain Call: Celebrating a Century of Women Designers for Live Performance at Lincoln Center Library. Along with co-designer Brett J. Banakis, Jones redesigned The Lyric Theatre in NY, home to the production of Harry Potter and the Cursed Child. In 2013, she served as the Denzel Washington Guest Chairperson for the Theatre Department of Fordham University. In 2015, she received an Obie for Sustained Excellence in Set Design. Christine has lectured at Princeton and teaches at NYU’s Tisch School of the Arts. Upcoming projects include, Cyrano, off Broadway in NY with music by The National, starring Peter Dinklage, Hopeland, in collaboration with Steven Hoggett with music by Jonsi, and Aida and La Traviata at the Metropolitan Opera.
Virtual Theatre
For One
Theatre For One: Here We Are is a live digital theatrical experience that brings together one actor and one audience member featuring eight new micro-plays which speak to these times we are in. Here We Are is commissioned by Arts Brookfield with additional support from Thomas M. Neff.
Featured playwrights, directors and performers: Candis C. Jones, Carmelita Tropicana, DeLanna Studi, Eisa Davis, Jaclyn Backhaus, Lydia R. Diamond, Lynn Nottage, Mahira Kakkar, Nikkole Salter, Patrice Bell, Rebecca Martinez, Regina Taylor, Russell G. Jones, Shyla Lefner, Stacey Rose, Tamilla Woodard, Taylor Reynolds, Tiffany Nichole Greene, and Zuleyma Guevara
While Theatre for One: Here We Are is inspired by the pandemic; the 100th Anniversary of the ratification of the 19th Amendment; and the Black Lives Matter, We See You WAT, and other movements fighting racism, the Here We Are writers have contributed works that span a spectrum of ideas and points of view. Theatre For One elevates a vibrant chorus of voices creating deeply personal works that resonate in this shared moment.
Contributors
Performance History
The Abbey Theatre (Dublin, Ireland) | T41: Here We Are, Arts Brookfield (Online) | Loyola University (New Orleans, LA) | Cork Midsummer Festival | University of Arkansas (Fayetteville, AR) | Lewis Center for the Arts, Princeton University (Princeton, NJ) | Fairfield University | Signature Theatre (New York City) | Arts Brookfield: Winter Garden, Zucotti Park, Grace Plaza (New York City) | Times Square (New York City)