We make things that are Genre-Bending, Devised, Experimental, Irreverant, Immersive, Culty
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We make things that are Genre-Bending, Devised, Experimental, Irreverant, Immersive, Culty 🟣
About Us
Brouhaha is an experimental theatre collective that investigates the relationship between audience and performance in strange and exciting spaces. Our work is ensemble-based and multi-disciplinary. Founded in 2015 by Nick Auer and Max Pendergast, Brouhaha devises, develops, and produces theatre that is bizarre, rowdy, and provocative. We create distinctive worlds and intimate encounters between audience members and performers.
We are fascinated by communities that close themselves off from the world in some way: cults, friend groups, or insular offices.
We work with playwrights but also devise with an ensemble through improvisation-- our work often fuses these text practices with movement generated by a choreographer and the ensemble.
The content and thematic considerations of our work often arise out of the spaces in which we are working.
We incorporate queerness in our work, not just in the stories we tell but also in the forms we use to tell them.
We are committed to making our work financially accessible to a diverse population.
Nick Auer
Nick Auer is a director, theatre-maker, sound designer, producer and experience designer. He has worked as Associate Director for Marianne Weems of the renowned multimedia theater company The Builders Association. He frequently collaborates and assists Brooke O’Harra, renowned experimental theater director and co-founder of Theatre of the Two-Headed Calf. He also was a creator and Experience Architect on the augmented-reality theatrical experience The Path of Beatrice. He works on many projects with Michael Counts and served as Associate Creative Director for Counts Projects. He frequently collaborates with immersive theater company Third Rail Projects. During the pandemic, he co-produced and designed a successful backyard performance series called Live! At the Boscoe Barles Backyard Center for the Performing Arts. nickauer.com
Max Pendergast
Max Pendergast is a director, theatre-maker, production manager, and stage manager with hands in social work and education. Beyond Brouhaha’s many projects, their directing credits include The Castle of Perseverance and Black Cat Lost by Erin Courtney. Stage Management credits include Ross Gay’s Be Holding, A Strange Window and Elements of Oz (BAM) with the Builder’s Association, MYTHO? (Abrons Art Center), I’m Bleeding all over the Place: A Living History Tour (La Mama), And That’s How the Rent Gets Paid by Jeff Weiss (The Kitchen), and Billy the Kid (Mount Tremper Arts).
Dan Kuan Peeples
Dan Kuan Peeples was a child actor and hypnotist best known for his turn as Lordzepe the Kid on the PBS show Half Asian Evasion. Born in the Hudson Valley during World War I, he worked as a dishwasher at the Nitehawk that Edward Hopper liked to chomp paintchips at, and played sitar in a funk band with Harry Chapin, where he was discovered at age 15. After his career flamed out due to multiple crippling line flubs, he, along with his twin brother Bill Mandarin, set up a small hypnotist office in rural Pennsylvania. There, he met the members of Brouhaha during a spa retreat. He died after pretending to have a fake heart attack in 2015, but the over 800 plays he wrote in his lifetime are still being produced to this day.
Sam Myers
Sam Myers is a playwright and dramaturg. He's been a semifinalist for the Clubbed Thumb Biennial Commission and the O'Neill. He was a 2019 WildWind Performance Lab resident, and the 2016-17 Literary Fellow at Playwrights Horizons. His work has been seen at The Tank, Dixon Place, FAB Downtown Art, and Bed-Stuy Art House, and published in the Brooklyn Rail. His site-specific short plays have been produced by Montana Repertory Theatre in a car, a hotel room, and a public school. Sam is currently the Literary Director for Tom Kirdahy Productions, a Tony Award-winning production company. He has provided dramaturgical support to shows on Broadway, off-Broadway, and at regional theaters.