Recent Productions
"Café Play is a genuine exploration of the way we live now that offers plenty of laughs, charming innovation, aching vulnerability, and the bite of incisive social satire."
This Is Not A Theatre Company's Subway Plays is a trilogy of site-specific, sensory podplays for the New York City Subway. Armed with nothing more than a set of headphones and an app, spectators ride the subway while listening to the recorded production - every surrounding sight, smell, and sound plays a supporting role in the experience.
"And as the ferry moves across New York Harbor, the vistas on that world change, giving the play a sense of vastness that contrasts with the intimacy of in-your-ear drama."
"A buoyant daydream of a show... joyous... thoughtful... surprisingly rewarding"
Waterside Gym and Fitness, NYC
2017
International Theatre Festival of Kerala
2017
"The overall tone, to the credit of director Erin B. Mee, helps the show maintain a sort of ‘whistling past the guillotine’ balance between the obvious... and the unsettling"
Festival of Life is a site-specific audio play. Download the audio recording, go to your favorite café in the Place de l’Horloge, order a coffee – or a glass of Chateauneuf du Pape -- and press play. You are the protagonist in a world in which everything you see, hear, taste, and touch is a performance.
Listen Now
2016 - Present
Where Have All The Glaciers Gone? is devised play about climate change, initially created and performed as a part of the Climate Change Theatre Action.
Climate Theatre Action
2015
Readymade Cabaret uses Duchamp’s notions of chance and readymades to celebrate the beauty of chance encounters. The scenes that are performed, and the order in which they are performed, depend on the roll of the dice; so in any given performance, the audience sees 1 of a hundred million possible plays.
Judson Church
2015
"Collaborators Jessie Bear and Erin Mee are paving the way to a profound immersive theatrical experience where performance and life intertwince effortlessly. Let them begin again, and again, and again."
New York Theatre Workshop and Judson Church
2014
Complete Productions
2023
Tecnica Mista: Dita e Pittura su Carta, Sinfonia per Oggetti Ritrovati, Giocco, La Danza Della
Caramella, L’ora dei Sogni, Che cosa sta facendo il Tuo Nuovo Governo per Combattere la Crisi
Climatica? Six Participatory mini performances for Teatri Riflessi 8, an international theatre festival of
short plays. Zaffarana Etnea. 12, 13, 14 July.
2023
Dreams of a Courtyard, Site-Specific dance piece. InCastro Festival, Castroreale, Sicily.
2023
Adentros y Afueras, This Is Not A Theatre Company. Festival International de Buenos Aires (FIBA), and
Alternativa in Buenos Aires. Ongoing.
2023
Confesions de un árbol, This Is Not A Theatre Company. Festival International de Buenos Aires (FIBA),
and Alternativa in Buenos Aires. Ongoing.
2022
Una Obra En Tu Bañera, This Is Not A Theatre Company. Festival International de Buenos Aires (FIBA)
2022 and 2023, Timbre 4 and Alternativa in Buenos Aires. Ongoing.
2022
Insides and Outsides, This Is Not A Theatre Company. Shanghai, New York. Ongoing.
2022
Play…In Your Bathtub 2.0, This Is Not A Theatre Company. Brighton Fringe, Camden Fringe, Edinburgh
Festival Fringe, Melbourne Fringe, Sydney Fringe, Shanghai, New York. Ongoing.
2022
Living Room, Starring Tom Nelis. This Is Not A Theatre Company. Shanghai, New York. Ongoing.
2022
Un Banquete Serio, Jornada Ritmo En Las Artes. Buenos Aires.
2021
Tree Confessions, Starring Kathleen Chalfant. This Is Not A Theatre Company. Berlin, Edinburgh
Festival Fringe, Brighton Fringe, Camden Fringe, Melbourne Fringe, Sydney Fringe, Philadelphia Fringe,
Festival International de Buenos Aires, International Theatre Festival of Nepal, Kathmandu. M1
Singapore Fringe Festival. Ongoing.
2020
Readymade Cabaret 2.0, This Is Not A Theatre Company. November and December. Online
performance on the platform Shindig. Also performed at Jairangam theatre festival in India.
2020
Life on Earth, This Is Not A Theatre Company. An Interactive digital play for the platform Discord. Ongoing.
2020
Play In Your Bathtub: A Site-Specific Audio Play for Physical Distancing, This Is Not A Theatre Company. An Interactive digital play for the platform Discord. Ongoing. This Is Not A Theatre Company at Edinburgh Festival Fringe Online. Translated into Russian and performed by WOWWOWWOW theatre, Moscow.
2020
Guru of Touch, This Is Not A Theatre Company at Edinburgh Festival Fringe Online. August.
2020
Senses of Touch, This Is Not A Theatre Company. February.
2020
Versailles 2.0, Shanghai Theatre Academy. Workshop production.
2020
Allow Me: A Play On Manners, This Is Not A Theatre Company. Workshop.
2019
Theatre In The Dark: Winter Solstice, This Is Not A Theatre Company. December.
2019
Theatre In The Dark: Carpe Diem, This Is Not A Theatre Company. September and October.
2019
Play!, This Is Not A Theatre Company. September and October.
2019
Play, by Samuel Beckett, United Nations International School
2017 and 2018
Café Play. Site-specific play for the Cornelia Street Café, NYC.
2017
This Is Not A Café. Figment.
2017
Pool Play 2.0, a site-based theatre piece for Waterside Gym and Fitness, NYC.
2017
Pool Play 2.0, a site-based theatre piece for the Luxury Pool in Thrissur, Kerala, as part of the International Theatre Festival of Kerala.
2017 - Present
Subway Plays, a trilogy of podplays for the NYC Subway system. Available as an app in both Apple and Google Play stores.
2016
Versailles 2016 (En Garde Arts and again with TINATC 2x, updated version of Versailles 2015 in different locations)
2016 - Present
Festival de la Vie, a site-specific podplay for the Place de l”Horloge. Avignon Le Off. Ongoing.
2015
Where Have All The Glaciers Gone?, devised piece for Climate Change Theatre Action. December.
2015
Versailles 2015, by Charles Mee and Jessie Bear. October and November. Site-specific.
2015
The 15th Line, a twitter play by Jeremy Gable. Online.
2015
Readymade Cabaret 2.0 for Figment. Governor’s Island. June.
2015
What They Heard, by Mona Mansour. Noor Theatre. May.
2015
Readymade Cabaret, after Duchamp. Judson Church. April.
2015 - Present
Ferry Play, a site-specific smartphone play for the Staten Island Ferry. Available as an app in both Apple and Google Play stores.
2014
A Serious Banquet, devised interactive piece based on Picasso’s 1908 party honoring Henri Rousseau. New York Theatre Workshop and Judson Church. June.
2014
Pool Play, site-based theatre piece for Waterside pool. February.
2011
The Gaza Monologues, United Nations International School.
2010
Divided Together: Hayavadana, Girish Karnad, Swarthmore College.
2006
Big Love, Charles Mee, Swarthmore College.
2005
Harvest, Manjula Padmanabhan, East Coast Artists at Swarthmore College.
2005
The Persians, Aeschylus/Auletta, Swarthmore College.
2004
Savage/Love, Shepard/Chaikin, Swarthmore College.
2003
Requiem for the Dead, Charles Mee, The Magic Theatre, San Francisco. Workshop.
2002
First Love, Charles Mee, The Magic Theatre, San Francisco.
2001
First Love, Charles Mee, New York Theatre Workshop.
2001
Amazons, Robert Auletta, The Market Theatre.
2001
The Imperialists at the Club Cave Canem, Charles Mee, The Market Theatre.
2000
Fefu and Her Friends, Bard College.
1999
The Oldest Profession, deconstructed from Shaw by Erin B, Mee, Mabou Mines.
1999
Not I, Samuel Beckett, Bard College.
1999
Antigona Furiosa, Griselda Gambaro, Vassar College.
1998
Matt Helm in “Assassins Have Starry Eyes,” Rob Kuhns, SoHo Rep, NYC. World Premiere.
1998
Dead and Gone to Granny’s, Jussi Wahlgren, SoHo Rep, NYC. American Premiere.
1997
The Flickering Blue Glow, Rob Kuhns, SoHo Rep, NYC. World Premiere.
1996
The House of Blue Leaves, John Guare, Yale Dramat, New Haven.
1996
Aramba Chekkan (The Myth of Orpheus), adapted by Kavalam Narayana Panikkar, performed in Malayalam, with The Sopanam Company, Kerala, India. Workshop production.
1996
The Little Clay Cart, Sudraka, Workshop, Fordham University.
1994
Commedia Tonite!, conceived by John Eisner and Erin B. Mee, Theatre Row, NYC. World Premiere.
1994
Timon of Athens, translated by Paul Schmidt from Shakespeare, HERE, NYC. World Premiere.
1993
Divided Together, Girish Karnad, Ontological at St. Mark's Theater, NYC. American Premiere.
1993
Faust, Goethe (adapted by Kavalam Narayana Panikkar), performed in Malayalam, with The Sopanam Company, in Kerala, India. World Premiere.
1993
Fuente Ovejuna, Lope De Vega, Bard College.
1992
Ottayan, The Lone Elephant, Kavalam Narayana Panikkar, Ontological at St. Mark's Theater, NYC. American Premiere.
1992
Eugene Onegin, Paul Schmidt, Bard College. World Premiere.
1992
Electra, Ezra Pound/Sophocles, Bard College.
1991
Troilus and Cressida, Shakespeare, The Guthrie Laboratory, Minneapolis.
1990
Waiting for Godot, Samuel Beckett, The University of Minnesota Graduate Acting Program.
1990
Collage-An AIDS Benefit, The Guthrie Laboratory.
1989
Silence, Harold Pinter, The Guthrie Laboratory.
1988
The Imperialists at the Club Cave Canem, Charles L. Mee Jr., The Public Theatre and HOME for Contemporary Theatre and Art, NYC. World Premiere.
1988
The Peach-Bottom Nuclear Reactor, Full of Sleepers, Mac Wellman, HOME for Contemporary Theatre and Art, NYC. World Premiere.
1987
Linda Ronstadt Called, Charles L. Mee Jr., HOME for Contemporary Theatre and Art, NYC.