Apply to The Hatchery 2025

Applications due January 31, 2025

The Hatchery is a short-term, paid performance residency program and public facing new play festival supporting works that center music and movement.

Learn more below about bringing your vision to life at The Hatchery by clicking below.

2024 Hatchery Program

and Workshop Performances below

Behind the scenes of La Mariposa by Sofia Marks and Isabel McTighe

La Mariposa
by Sofia Marks with Isabel McTighe

2pm

La Mariposa is a solo devised work about a girl who has forgotten her name. In her bedroom, she howls folklórico vocals and dances bachata. At the borderlands, she cries for her deities.

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In the studio with WHY and HOW Are Not in the Picture by Monique Holt

WHY and HOW Are Not in the Picture
by Monique Holt

Performed in ASL with open captions

7pm

WHY and HOW s a multi-sensory experience for hearing and d/Deaf/HoH audiences performed entirely in American Sign Language. Competing voices struggle to construct meaning inside a Deaf Brain, resulting in an absurdist musical enhanced by projected captions, sound, and dynamic lighting elements.

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