a letter from our artistic director
Founding Artistic Director Jonathan V. Edmondson
Friends,
As the Collective began planning for our 2023 Season, we had an essential question we had to consider: “What is ‘queer theatre’?” We pride ourselves on producing new queer theatre by emerging playwrights, but we had never dissected the term at the core of our mission. Is it enough for a play to simply feature LGBTQIA+ characters? Does it need to highlight a queer relationship, too? Or could it be something else altogether?
The answer is everything everywhere all at once (to quote the title of a great queer film from last year). Queer people are limitless, and our stories should be also. We concluded that, by association, our theatre cannot be defined; it is a feeling as much as it is representation on a page.
The theme for our 2023 Season, Limitless: Celebrating Queer Identity, is born out of this discovery. We want to showcase the multiplicity of our experience through new works of theatre that challenge, inspire, and feature queerness in ways we have not seen onstage before.
I invite you to join us for this exciting year of queer theater, whether it be onstage, backstage, in the audience, or in our playwriting cohort. Details about dates and locations of our programs will be announced soon, and we cannot wait to see you at the theater!
Jonathan V. Edmondson
Founding Artistic Director
he/him/his
