Theatre Lab

The Theatre Lab is the research and development arm at Freehold, which provides a forum for the development of new performance material and the rediscovery of classics. The Lab gives accomplished artists a chance to develop new ways of working with emphasis placed on a safe place for experimentation and discovery rather than commercial pressures. The Lab offers an opportunity to expand and awaken a theatre audience that is hungry for new and unproven work.

Freehold's Theatre Lab offers professional theatre artists the opportunity to :

•  re-invest in their love of the art,
• realize their individual potential and vision,
• and to celebrate the power and magic of this process with an audience.

The Lab has supported the work of Leonid Anisimov, Gennadi Bogdanov, Becca Chase, Elizabeth Heffron, Mark Jenkins, Anthony Lee, Marjorie Nelson, Tony Pasqualini, Meg Richmond, Robin Lynn Smith, Matt Smith, Katt Tait, and many others.

Work has gone on to major venues in Seattle (including On The Boards and the Seattle Repertory Theatre), New York, Vancouver B.C., San Francisco, as well as independent and major motion pictures.

We have conducted an international collaboration with the Chamber Drama Theatre of Vladivostok, Russia, in which we presented their master work, THE LOWER DEPTHS, and mounted a new production of UNCLE VANYA with American actors.