TRAP DOOR THEATRE

Hand Foot Hand, written and performed by Deborah Kent and directed by Kate Hendrickson, explores the challenges faced by a blind student navigating a new ...

In a setting that is at the same time a torture chamber, a chamber of the heart, and a chamber for a virtuoso recital, two ...

The women of Warsaw tremble with the rumor of a strangler on the prowl… Set in the landscape of a true crime story from 1970’s ...

Ivona, a woman of few words, is forcibly entangled into the intrigues of a dysfunctional royal court when she becomes Prince Philip’s fiancée. Soon, Ivona ...

Lette was never concerned with his looks until his peers, coworkers, and wife told him hes the ugliest man in the world. If a pretty ...

Resident Director Max Truax returns to Trap Door to direct another Heiner Mller piece, after his triumphant production of Hamletmachine, which calculated chaos and mastered ...

Director Nicole Wiesner brings her signature Trap Door style to adapt and direct this obscure Mroek farce. One of Polands most celebrated playwrights, Sawomir Mroek ...

Catherine Sullivan's (she/her) solo exhibitions, collaborations, performances, and films have been presented at Hammer Museum, Los Angeles; Walker Art Center, Minneapolis; The Renaissance Society at ...

This winter, Trap Door Theatre is collaborating with eight directors to create a series of episodes adapted from Matei Visniec's Decomposed Theatre Or The Human ...

Josiah Davis (he/him) is a director, choreographer, actor. His work strives to intersect expressive movement, live music, emerging technology, and ritual to breathe new life ...

Cristina Pronzati (she/her) has been involved in theatre and film in NY ever since her college days. This is not her first Trap Door experience: ...

Nicole Wiesner (she/her) joined the Trap ensemble in 1999 and currently serves as the Managing Director. Her directing credits for the company include Minna, The ...

Nicole Wiesner (she/her) joined the Trap ensemble in 1999 and currently serves as the Managing Director. Her directing credits for the company include Minna, The ...

Marian Masoliver (she/her) has more than thirty years of experience as an international actress, theatre director, drama teacher, and writer. She began her career studying ...

Michael Mejia (they/them) studied acting and music performance at Indiana University before coming to Chicago. Mejia is the company manager for Trap Door Theatre, where ...

Zachary Nicol (they/them) constructs texts across media that address scrutiny, identification, illegibility, and presentation. Their performance, writing, video, and print work has been presented in ...

Katarzyna Wińska (she/her) was born in Warsaw, capital of communist Poland in 1953. Since 1977, she has had M.A. in applied linguistics at the Warsaw ...

In the world premiere of "Lipstick Lobotomy," John F. Kennedy's little sister, Rosemary Kennedy, and the playwright's Great Aunt Ginny develop a friendship at an ...

On the brink of a world war, a mysterious plague starts killing everyone older than 45. A young doctor finds a cure, but what is ...

Secrets. God. Death. Virtual Love Affairs. Terror. DNA. Memory. Madness. Pig Latin. How does our incessant consumption of information and virtual connectivity penetrate and frame ...

A conscientious citizen finds himself in a radiantly beautiful city. There is only one problem in Utopia - it is marred by thepresence of an ...

A celebration of 25 years of Trap Door TheatreA showcase to benefit Trap Doors move into the future! LIMITED ENGAGEMENT!ONLY 7 PERFORMANCES! Cast: Dennis Bisto, ...

In this hilarious satire, the dangers inherent in contemporary society are inscribed in a universal story of how conformity, anarchy and formalism can come into ...

Using the forms of theatre, performance art, and dance, Childhood Beauty is about reluctantly participating in Jane Fondas dance aerobics videos way-back-when. It is about ...

Due to the onset of preeclampsia, eight-months pregnant neurosurgeon May Evans has been placed on bed rest and ordered to “do less”…forcing her husband Sam, ...

Trap Door Theatre presents Heiner Müller's Hamletmachine, translated by Carl Weber, directed by Max Truax, with music composed by Jonathan Guillen. There's something rotten in ...