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The Tectonic Theater Project

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The Tectonic Theater Project expresses issues going on in the world that people are not hearing much about, difficult to talk about, or difficult to comprehend expressed in the form of the theater.

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The tectonic theatre project wants their works to be more than just plays. They want these plays to inspire and inform. These plays may create a national awareness for problems that face smaller portions of society

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The techtonic theatre project is a way to express matters that often light may not be shed upon, by performing these plays plays people in office such as our past president Obama was able to become aware of the problems that were happening and was eventually able to pass a bill to help

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Even President Obama was impacted by the Tectonic Theatre Project.

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The tectonic theater project finds new ways to create plays and to inspire others with their work

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The tectonic theater presents plays that have in some way dealt with real life situations that were relevant within their time period. The theater believes that they play a key role in "national dialogue".

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All of the plays that the tectonic theatre production has made were all created based on cultural problems of the time.

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Many of the plays performed within the theatre deal with real-world crises and themes that are prevalent in society at the time. Moisés Kaufman believes that through theatre, meaningful impacts can be brought about and the world can better itself (for example, the signing of the Matthew Shepard and James Byrd, Jr. Act).

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The tectonic theatre project is designed to inspire wider conversation on a variety of issues or topics

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The Tectonic Theater Project produces plays about the situations/events/problems going on in the current time period.

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Tectonic is a collaborative, interdisciplinary network of artists interested in telling relevant stories theatrically and exploring new theatrical form. Plays we have created using Moment Work include: Gross Indecency: The Three Trials of Oscar Wilde (Lucille Lortel Award, Outer Critics Circle), The Laramie Project (2002 Humanitas Prize, 4 Emmy nominations, GLAAD Media Award, HBO film), I Am My Own Wife (Pulitzer Prize, Tony Award-Best Play, Obie Award, Drama Desk Award, Outer Critics Circle Award) and 33 Variations (5 TONY nominations).