VALUES
Values that we’re continually grappling with and adding to, in the order we learned them in:
1. Good theater is soul food.
2. Our theater lives in the tension between flesh and poetry.
3. Humans have the memory of goldfish. The ritual of theater helps us re-remember again and again.
4. We facilitate cultural exchange toward global citizenship because
5. What matters to me and what matters to you is likely less important than what matters to us both.
6. We maintain a beginner’s mindset to protect endless discovery, rigorous growth and improvement.
7. We are inspired by the synergy of an intimate theater and promise never to take for granted the live audience in the room. We see you and address you - you are not anonymous.
8. We pledge to be continually responsive, as creators, neighbors, citizens...
9. We embrace and protect the freedom to risk.
10. Self-abnegation: We welcome discomfort in pursuit of insight, justice and pleasure.
11. Love is a verb embodied through community, from our ensemble of actors to our therapy in prisons.
12. We affirm the right to assemble - the theater as a ritual and catalyst of public dialogue - and offer our community free of charge - accessible to all.
13. Bioluminescence: When we gather together, somehow, we are more than the sum of our parts.
14. It matters where the art appears, who is present in the audience and onstage.
15. We will build a diverse community - calling ourselves and others in.
16. We pledge ourselves to healing action. “To know, and not to do, is not to know.”
17. We seek justice, freedom and reparations through urban renewal.
18. Intentional integration without gentrification: We understand the role that theaters have played in gentrifying under-resourced communities and accept responsibility for proactive innovation and sustainable new solutions to resist profit-above-all.
19. We seek to carry our creative labors to their greatest positive social impact.
20. We understand that we are participating in intergenerational labor and that this work is never-ending.
