One Year Lease is guided by three foundational areas of interest when creating new work, but we are open to all subversions, iterations and responses to them:

 

 

We are interested in stories told from a group or shared perspective, in whatever form this may take.

 

We are an ensemble company – artists who work together consistently over long periods – and through this structure have found a reflection in approaching work from the perspective of a collective consciousness.

 

We seek to draw audiences into the experience as a participant, an accomplice, a part of the group, as culpable.

 

Theatrically a Greek chorus is defined, in part, as a collective voice contextualized by each individual participant’s different experience of the shared event. We draw on this ancient principle as we explore what it means to modernize the chorus into contemporary forms.

 

 

As a highly physical company with a strong focus on movement, and with a resident movement director, we are especially interested in writing that supports or demands this kind of expression. Successful submissions will undergo a rigorous physical exploration as the first step in their development. Writing that explores unique and magical worlds is strongly encouraged.

 

We are drawn to writing that explores unconventional structure, possibly as straight prose without scene headings, character names, stage directions (but still written specifically for the stage). We weight non-linear story-telling heavily in our selection process