About Sansculottes Theater Co.

Sansculottes Theater Company is a group of writers committed to producing exclusively original work that challenges the status quo, surprises and delights its audience, and catches the world with its pants down.

Sansculottes began somewhat accidentally in 2003, when Elizabeth Bagby, Terry Selucky, and C. Mitchell Turner produced their collaborative script Patriot Act III: Rise of the Machines and wound up starting a theater company in the process. In 2004 we set about incorporating and obtaining 501(c)(3) status as a non-profit organization.

In developing our collective shows, Sansculottes write collaboratively. We sit around a table, and each of us writes six lines of a scene. Then we pass our scenes to the right, and each person must continue writing whatever scene he or she has received. It’s not unlike improvising on paper; each person contributes to every scene.

Bagby describes our writing process in more detail in her essay “Somehow, the Scenes Still Happen,” which Lisa Rosenthal included in her excellent anthology The Writing Group Book (Chicago Review Press, 2003). A different version of the essay—with a scene annotated to show how the process works—appears in the November 2004 issue of Dramatics magazine.

The Company

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Founders

Terry Selucky
Elizabeth Bagby, Development Director
C. Mitchell Turner, Producing Director

Board

Dean Corrin
Lauri Dahl
Rock Fraire
Maureen George
Kelly Kaminski

Company Members

Tom Horan, Artistic Director

Camilla Bergin, Operations Manager
Jason Demma
Matt Gawryk
Dan Kerr-Hobert, Associate Artistic Director
Tai Palmgren
Adam Simon, Literary Manager

 

Artistic Associates

Chip Davis

Sarah Goeden

Pat King

Bernie McGovern

Meredith Miller

Rosemary Naeger

Keith Neagle

Brad Smith

Kevin V. Smith

Ryan Smith

Artistic Associates Alumni

          Michael Barker

Jenna DeLuca

Riley Cooper

 

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