PRESS & SUPPORTERS

“By removing the largest barrier to theater—the theater itself—as well as any financial barrier that may be off-putting—all of The Motor Company’s performances are free to watch—The Motor Company strives to make art accessible in an incredibly unique way.”

—Jen Gushue, “Theater in the Wild: The Motor Company at Large in NYC,” The Brooklyn Rail

 

“We live in one of the most exciting, innovative, and complicated cities in the world, one in which shared public space is a way of life. These plays take audiences on a journey around places they think they know, reinvigorating their relationships to these common areas and giving them a chance to imaginatively immerse themselves in the city.”

Founding Artistic Director Lillian Meredith, in Canvas Rebel

 

“The Motor Company offers a way to bring theater back to New Yorkers: to meet audiences where they’re at, to make shows financially and geographically accessible, and to tell stories about our hometown that resonate with all New Yorkers. We use the architecture of the space as a playground, telling untold stories and transforming quotidian spaces through imagination, connectivity, and community. Our shows have to be highly physical, comedic, and engaging to compete with the wild and wooly cityscape around us. The heart of our work is drawing audiences into stories of who and who we’ve been as a city in order to guide who and what we might become.”

-Director Caitlin Wells on The High Line Blog

SEASON SPONSORS

 

DONORS

Emily Abrons * Iris Abrons * Pauline Abrons * Peter Abrons * Alexander Allaux * Meghan Ballback * Paul Bennett * Stephen Bennett * Cara Bernard * Karla Brom * Jack Calk * Michael A. Davis * Anthony DeLuise, Jr. * Jody Falco & Jeffery Steinman * Helen Frank * Sakiko Fukada-Parr * Rebecca Gannon * Alexandra Garcia * David Giller * Olivia Gilliatt * Rebecca Gridley * Anton Handel * Kendra Heisler * Roman Jackson * Jessica Johnston * Brad Kamitaki * Zachary Kolodin * Kate Kremer * Changshuo Liu * Martin & Gail Marcus * Steven Matarazzo * Abel McDonnell * Gregory & Sarah K. Meredith * Lillian Meredith & Abel McDonnell * Tom Meredith * Kate Mulley * Elizabeth O’Connor * Henry Parr * Jake Polinsky * Elmira Raeifar * Angela Santillo * Charlotte Savino & Lee Norton * Rose Schapiro *Maxwell Schneller * Janet Schinderman & Alberto Minujín * Will Stamos * Jeffrey Steinman * Darcy Stephens * Cathy Tempelsman * Sanaz Tennent * elliott turbull * Ania Upstill * Marya Ursin * Emily Vance * Roman Vann Jackson * Marion Wechselberger * Marlyn Wells * Robert Cole Wirtz

 

INSTITUTIONAL GIVING

The Motor Company’s previous seasons have been made possible in part by grants from the following organizations:

  • New York State Council on the Arts with the support of the Office of the Governor and the New York State Legislature

  • NYSCA A.R.T. / New York Creative Opportunity Fund

  • NYC City Artist Corps

  • Brooklyn Arts Council

  • OPEN NYC

  • Indie Theater Fund

  • Queens Arts Fund New Work & Arts Access Grants, funded by the New York Foundation for the Arts, the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs, and the Greater New York Arts Development Fund

  • GO Queens Grant, funded by the Howard Gilman Foundation administered by Flushing Town Hall

  • The Puffin Foundation, Ltd.

  • The Foundation for Contemporary Arts

 

Artistic Director Lillian Meredith discusses Communal Spaces for the New York Restoration Project

 

An interview with Lillian Meredith for Patch