Superhero Clubhouse unites ecology and theater to enact justice, cultivate hope, and inspire a thriving future.
Original Performances
Superhero Clubhouse makes original performances for both adult and family audiences. This work is created by multidisciplinary teams of artists and scientists and performed in public spaces, schools, theaters, and museums in New York City and beyond.
Public Workshops
Free and open to all, our public workshops offer a creative space for exploring questions that arise from issues of climate change and environmental justice. Workshops are regularly held throughout the year in New York City.
The Fellowship
The Fellowship is a long-term creative residency for a select group of individuals to explore questions of environmental justice through performance. Fellows engage in rigorous research, experimentation, and the creation of a performance for a public audience.
Community Education & Empowerment
In collaboration with The Bushwick Starr, Superhero Clubhouse brings environmental education to elementary students through after-school playwriting programs. Kids learn about local ecological problems, write original plays, and see their work professionally produced for their peers and families.
SUPERHERO
Powerful individuals dedicated to making a better world
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 individuals possess the power to transform the way we are in the world for the better.
Collaboration
We consider differences in identity, discipline, medium, ability, and thought as vital to a creative process and a better world.
Science
We make creative spaces and stories upon a strong foundation of environmental research, and view scientists as vital 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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