April 18th - May 18th, 2024

Spanning multiple rooms on the 6th Floor of the Tank

“Brouhaha brings a masterful sense of how to produce immersive” -No Proscenium

“What makes the Vicky Archives work so well is is that' it’s focused on the issues of the human condition.” -Theater Pizzazz

“One of the best productions I’ve seen in the city this year…a seductive and unpredictable trip.” -Defector

For the first time in its history, The Vicky Archives is opening up its doors to researchers from the outside world. An elite group of guests have been granted one-time, special access to travel through a collection of memories belonging to and maintained by the organization’s peculiar members. The Archive members recount and uncover their life stories, shaping one another’s narratives through experimental group exercises. (Is this a cult? Probably not, right?) The Vicky Archives is an immersive experience for just 30 audience members exploring memory, intimacy, collective and individual identity, and the intoxicating promise of a life of purpose. Make haste and accept your invitation to The Archives before its doors close again.

Co-created by Nick Auer, Dan Kuan Peeples, Sam Myers, Allie Freed, Sam James, and Max Pendergast

Written by Sam Myers and Dan Kuan Peeples

Directed by Nick Auer

Lighting Designer: Jacqueline Scalletta

Scenic Designer: Cat Raynor

Costume Designer: Kindall Almond

Creative Producer: Max Pendergast

Line Producer: Spencer Armstrong

Production Stage Manager: Taylor Suffridge

Assistant Stage Manager: Jonon Gansukh

Starring

Dan Kuan Peeples

Allie Freed

Sam James

Marisela Grajeda Gonzalez

Nile Assata Harris

Marjorie Conn

Developed with generous support from The Tank.

Chaotic Good is a rough and ready recurring performance series featuring irreverent works-in-progress by artists across all performance mediums. Come see a night of risk-taking, where the unpolished is heralded, the weird is our currency, and experimentation is a prerequisite. Featuring devised theater, dance, music, immersive performance, puppetry, and video.

Created by Nick Auer and Dan Kuan Peeples

Curated by Nick Auer

First Evening at The Tank, June 1st, 2022—featuring Maria Camia, Ben Moniz, Nathan Repasz, Katya Barmontino, Peter Farr, Léoh, and Brouhaha

Second Evening at Art Cafe + Bar on September 8, 2022—featuring Brouhaha, Daniel & Patrick Lazour, Fripp, Claire

A new play by Sam Myers

Directed by Nick Auer

Produced by Max Pendergast, Lighting Design by Jon Ontiveros

Featuring Hope French, Dan Peeples, and Jacques Duvoisin

Workshop Production presented by Brouhaha at the Tank on March 11th, 2019.

Cindy makes friends in waiting rooms. She hears things in the walls of her house. Her orthodontist fiancé sure is gone a lot, but she's got a new friend Zach who breaks things-- and he's pretty into her homemade pastas. She'll tell you all about it in this intimate, darkly funny play exploring how masculinity f*cks things up. Boys just wanna be soft.

Aug 9th - 19th, 2018, in Prospect Park

Sixteen audience members follow an insular high school friend group as they stumble from adolescence to adulthood. But in this show’s beguiling world, a coming-of-age might just come around more than once. What are wayward youth to do when faced with the opportunity to turn back the clock and re-write their most precarious moments?

The Brouhaha Theatre Project makes its return to Prospect Park with a dreamy immersive experience that takes its audience into some of the park's most enchanting corners.

"It is all too easy to lose yourself in this strange world." - Kathryn Yu, No Proscenium

"This journey in time and in space is masterfully executed." -Asya Danilova, Theater is Easy

Conceived by Nick Auer, Max Pendergast, and Sam Myers

Direction by Nick Auer and Max Pendergast, Writing and Associate Direction by Sam Myers, Choreography by Mary Anne Bodnar, Sound Design and Original Music by Nick Auer, Culinary Design by Lydia O'Brien, and Website/Graphic Design by John Goodman.

Featuring and created in collaboration with Hanna Allerton, Daina Njuguna, Ciaran Walsh, Dan Kuan Peeples, Alexandra Tweedley, Mary Anne Bodnar, Tom Mezger, John Goodman, and Annette Hammond.

Production Assistant: John Pendergast

Special Thanks to Materials for the Arts - New York City Department of Cultural Affairs, Third Rail Projects NYC, Jessy Smith, Rebekah Morin, Brian Alford, Prospect Park Alliance, New York City Department of Parks & Recreation, John Cappetta, and all of our fantastic test audience members! This production was made possible by our generous donors and supportors.

January 11th, 12th, and 13th at the Keep in Ridgewood, NY

A play about a sticky note, a clarinet, and work-life balance.

Five overeager 20-somethings have quit their startup jobs, cut themselves off from society, and created their own secluded commune called BrainSoul, a world where ideas become divorced from reality.

Developed with The Brouhaha Theatre Project

Directed by Nick Auer and Max Pendergast, Choreographed by Alexandra Tweedley, Original Music by Maddie Legro & Nick Auer, Lighting Design by Ry Burke, Set Design by Michaela Scanzillo

Featuring Hanna Allerton, John Goodman, Catherine Mary Stewart, Sam Myers, Kim Golding, Nick Auer, and Max Pendergast

World Premiere Workshop Production, Research & Development, performed at Dixon Place in February 2017.

Production made possible with support from Dixon Place, Materials for the Arts, Third Rail Projects, The Keep, Spaceworks NYC.

Check out an article in Greenpointers about the show!

May 5, 6, & 7th, 2016

Staged in Prospect Park's historic and stunning Meadowport Arch, Tunnel Odyssey explored the moments on journeys that alter or redefine the destination.

Combining The Odyssey and The Oregon Trail, this raucous dance-theatre production featured original folk music by the female power trio The Oshy Annas. Audience were led on a meandering route to the tunnel, where they encountered strange denizens of the trail, haunting melodies, and site-inspired dance. The production was featured as #2 on Brokelyn.com's Best Cheap Events of the Weekend: "Find the light at Tunnel Odyssey."

Featuring Hanna Allerton, Dan Kuan Peeples, Gunnar Manchester, Annie Whitford, Max Pendergast, Nick Auer, Carla Diaz, Ali Millard, and Chloe Kostman. Music by the Oshy Annas. Choreography by Annie Whitford. Conceived and directed by Nick Auer and Max Pendergast. Text by Abby Zwetchkenbaum and Dan Kuan Peeples. Additional Text by Charles Mee, Homer, and Nicole Krauss. Assistant Direction by Reilly Horan. The production was made possible by our generous IndieGogo supporters.

We’ve made many one-off experiences and experiments!