Collaborators & Colleagues

Sebastienne Mundheim

Updated
30 Nov 2016

Performance artist Sebastienne Mundheim is the founder of White Box Theatre. A storyteller, installation artist, and educator, Mundheim has been creating interdisciplinary performance and arts-based community events for 20 years. She began her career as a painter and writer, earning her BA and BFA at the University of Pennsylvania before transitioning into performance-based practices. In 2007, Mundheim created the interdisciplinary performance work Sea of Birds, based on her mother’s experience fleeing Latvia during WWII.

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Sea of Birds

Theater

Heritage

Grants & Grantees

The AI Project

Karen Getz developed and produced the world premiere of a text-free comic-actors' ballet that explored what it means to be human through the behaviors of artificially intelligent robots.

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The Incredibly Dangerous Astonishing Lucrative and Potentially Completely TRUE Adventures of Barry Seal

Thaddeus Phillips uses his two years on a telenovela as the jumping off point in The Incredibly Dangerous Astonishing Lucrative and Potentially Completely TRUE Adventures of Barry Seal.

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Projects on Tour: Center-Supported Works by Ann Hamilton, David Ludwig, Silvana Cardell, and more

After premieres in the Philadelphia region, Center-funded performances and exhibitions are reaching new national and international audiences in venues around the world.

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Destiny Estimate

Playwright MJ Kaufman debuts an experiment in narrative structure that combines several forms of storytelling, physical language, and a cappella choral music.

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The Accountant

Theater artist Trey Lyford premieres a visual theater piece that tells the story of a life remembered and the frailty of human experience.

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Questions of Practice

Questions of Practice: Artist Michael Rakowitz on the Live Experience of Radio

Michael Rakowitz describes the “beautiful blindness” that radio can create for listeners.

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Alias Ellis MacKenzie September 15–19

Thaddeus Phillips' new bilingual performance work for theater, inspired by his experience working on Colombian telenovela *Alias El Mexicano*, continues September 15–19.

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Endless Shout: Jumatatu Poe's Let 'im Move You: A Study and This Is a Success

The Institute of Contemporary Art presents a performance of Pew Fellow Jumatatu Poe’s Let ‘im Move You, organized by Danielle Goldman.

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Grants & Grantees

An Investigation of Contingency and the Uses of Data Streams

New Paradise Laboratories' core ensemble will expand their devised theater techniques and lay the groundwork for a series of new pieces, through investigations of improvisational structures, games of chance, and audience interactivity, with a group of international practitioners including composer Bhob Rainey and UK game theory specialist Tassos Stevens.

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Alex Torra

Torra’s ensemble-created, experimental performance work invites audiences to consider the complexities of contemporary cultural identity, community, and humanity.

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The Frank Rizzo Project

Theatre Exile explored ways to dramatize the story of Frank Rizzo, a polarizing Philadelphia political icon, with a special emphasis on group discussions with longtime residents of South Philadelphia.

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red black & GREEN: a blues

Annenberg Center Live brought Oakland-based arts activist Marc Bamuthi Joseph to Philadelphia in fall 2012 for a six-day residency and the regional premiere of a new work.

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O Monsters at Capital Fringe Festival

New Paradise Laboratories’ O Monsters, the companion piece to their Center-supported project Hello Blackout!, travels to the 2018 Capital Fringe Festival in Washington D.C.

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Questions of Practice

Questions of Practice: Theater Artist Taylor Mac on Duration and Ritual in Performance

Taylor Mac discusses the ways in which durational and participatory theater can break down an audience’s defenses.

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The Lieutenant of Inishmore

Theatre Exile produced the Philadelphia premiere of Martin McDonagh's darkly comic bloodbath.

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Fallow

People's Light & Theatre Company produced the world premiere of this work by Kenneth Lin, based in part on deadly attacks on immigrants that took place near the playwright's childhood home.

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On Stage This Fall: Opera Philadelphia’s First Festival, Premieres from New Paradise Laboratories, Thaddeus Phillips, Tempesta di Mare, and More

An abundance of Center-funded performances take the stage this fall.

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In This Place... and If She Stood

Painted Bride Art Center commissioned three-time Obie Award-winning writer, director, and actor Ain Gordon to unearth a "forgotten" story from Philadelphia's past for a new play.

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Adapt!

This world premiere play, written by the Wilma's artistic director Blanka Zizka, invites audiences to consider the immigrant experience and questions surrounding identity, homeland and exile, the idealism of youth, and the compromises of adulthood.

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New Paradise Laboratories Presents The Adults

Influenced by Chekhov and the paintings of Eric Fischl, and set to experimental music by Bhob Rainey, the highly physical and choreographed New Paradise ensemble offers The Adults.

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