Superhero Clubhouse unites ecology and theater to enact justice, cultivate hope, and inspire a thriving future.
Performances
Superhero Clubhouse makes original performances for both adult and family audiences. This work is created by multidisciplinary teams and performed in public spaces, schools, theaters, and museums in New York City and beyond.
Workshops
Our Eco-Performance Lab is a creative workshop for people of all backgrounds, occupations, and levels of experience to collaboratively respond to climate and environmental crises through guided performance-making. Labs are regularly held throughout the year in New York City and beyond.
Fellowship
The Fellowship for Environmental Justice & Performance is a six-month paid residency for people of different disciplines to collaboratively create a new performance-based project exploring environmental justice. Fellows develop this project with regular opportunities to share work, participate in other programs of Superhero Clubhouse, and engage with our community.
Big Green Theater
In partnership with The Bushwick Starr, Superhero Clubhouse brings environmental education to elementary students through after-school playwriting programs. Kids learn about climate and environmental justice, write their own imaginative plays, and see their work professionally produced for their peers and families.
SUPERHERO
Powerful individuals dedicated to environmental justice
CLUBHOUSE
An inclusive gathering place for serious play
Our Values
Justice
We recognize that environmental crises are problems of equity for both humans and non-humans.
Hope
We believe that tangible hope is necessary for a movement towards a just, thriving society.
Collaboration
We consider differences in identity, discipline, medium, ability, and thought as vital to a creative process and a better world.
Knowledge
We create upon a strong foundation of environmental science, both Western and Indigenous science, along with traditional ecological knowledge. We view all knowledge-holders as essential collaborators.
Weighty worldly questions might produce plodding drama with some artists, but the work of Superhero Clubhouse is playful, inventive, and daring.
The Brooklyn Rail
Superhero Clubhouse [has] enlisted an engaged audience, and a community of artists, actors, playwrights, and producers that see eco theater as valid, needed, and part of the theatrical tradition. In the process they are creating an eco cannon that was considered woefully missing only a short time ago.
Dillon Slagle, Howlround
The workshop [Superhero Clubhouse] did for my Columbia University class was wonderful in helping the students think about how they communicate science. The students loved it and uniformly said they were now better prepared to communicate their science to a variety of audiences.
Sonya Dyhrman
Professor, Lamont Doherty Earth Observatory, ColumbiaI can’t believe our kids wrote these plays. Bless you and the team for bringing this out of them.
Chris Alexiou
Assistant Principal, IS77, BGT '18 Partner SchoolNow, more than ever, we need this type of theater. We need to ask the big questions, fearlessly, and with compassion. Superhero Clubhouse is doing exactly that.
Cassiope Sydoriak
Writer, Illustrator, Business ConsultantWe see that artists and scientists aren’t so different. Both are asking tough questions; searching for answers in an enigmatic world.
Allie Tsubota
2016 Fellowship CoordinatorThe applause, the clapping, I think that was the best day of my life.
Daniel Z.
5th Grade Workshop Participant
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