The Company
Mabou Mines is an avant-garde theater company that emphasizes the creation of new work either from original texts or through the adaptation of existing (often classic) texts staged from a re-imagined point of view. Established in 1970 and based in New York City, Mabou Mines is named after a community in Nova Scotia near where the founding members of the company (JoAnne Akalaitis, Lee Breuer, Philip Glass, Ruth Maleczech and David Warrilow [1934-95]) created The Red Horse Animation, which was presented at the Guggenheim Museum that same year.
Over the years, Co-Artistic Directors have included: L.B. Dallas, Ellen McElduff, Greg Mehrten, William Raymond and B. St. John Schofield, along with present Co-Artistic Directors: Julie Archer, Lee Breuer, Sharon Fogarty, Ruth Maleczech, Frederick Neumann, Terry O’Reilly and current Artistic Associates: Clove Galilee, Karen Kandel, Honora Fergusson Neumann and David Neumann. A deep understanding of a shared collaborative process is what defines the current six-person Artistic Directorate.
Mabou Mines has continually sought and supported collaborations with artists from other disciplines – novelists, visual artists, musicians, filmmakers, digital artists, etc. – resulting in diverse theatrical innovations. Collaborations with such composers as Philip Glass, Carter Burwell, Johnny Cunningham, Phil Cunningham, Eve Beglarian, Ushio Torikai, Liliana Felipe, Lenny Picket, Bob Telson, John Zorn, Pauline Oliveros and David Byrne, as well as many esteemed artists and writers including Richard Nonas, Jene Highstein, Keith Sonnier, Santo Loquasto, Jennifer Tipton, M.L. Geiger, Jim Clayburgh, Ree Morton, Linda Hartinian, Doug Stein, Judson Wright, Jim Strahs, Jocelyn Clarke, Patricia Spears Jones and Misha Films, amount to a unique history of fusion theater in which all of the arts are given equal consideration.