Superhero Clubhouse unites ecology and theater to enact justice, cultivate hope, and inspire a thriving future.
Performances
We make original performances exploring climate and environmental justice for both adult and family audiences. These works are created by multidisciplinary teams and produced in theaters, forests, schools, and other public spaces in New York City and beyond.
Workshops
We lead creative workshops for people of all backgrounds, occupations, and levels of experience to collaboratively respond to climate and environmental crises through guided performance-making. We offer free workshops to the public when connected to our programs, and are hired to lead workshops for universities, schools, and community groups at a sliding scale rate.
Fellowships
We host paid residencies for people of different backgrounds and disciplines to collaboratively create new performance-based projects exploring climate and environmental justice. Fellows develop these projects with regular opportunities to share work, participate in other programs of Superhero Clubhouse, and engage with our community.
Big Green Theater
In partnership with local theaters and public schools, Superhero Clubhouse brings environmental education to elementary students through after-school playwriting programs. Young people learn about climate and environmental justice, write their own imaginative plays, and see their work fully staged, designed, and performed 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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