Concrete Temple Theatre

is an internationally acclaimed devised visual-theatre company. Known for defying conventional boundaries between design and text, CTT creates visually striking works that bring myth and ritual back to the center of dialogue in order to confront the prevailing social issues of our times.

Since 2004, Concrete Temple Theatre has presented their work for NYC audiences at such venerable Off-Broadway and avant garde venues as SoHo Playhouse, Barrow Street Theatre, HERE, Dixon Place, and La MaMa. They have been artists-in-residence in NYC at The Flea Theater, Dixon Place, Mabou Mines, St. Ann’s Warehouse and chashama. CTT’s national tours include The Yard, Bard Summerscape, Detroit Institute of Arts, PS21-Chatham, Amphibian Stage, and Pontine Theatre.

The company has toured internationally to London, Sri Lanka, India, Bulgaria, Turkey, Italy, Scotland, South Korea, Mexico and Costa Rica.

Who We Are

Renee Philippi

Artistic Director

Carlo Adinolfi

Artistic Director

Casey McLain

Producer

Hye Young Chyun

Artistic Associate

Eric Nightengale

Artistic Associate

J Hann

Artistic Associate

Max Mooney

Associate Producer

Emily Batsford

Artistic Associate

Camille Leigh Cooper

Artistic Associate

Advisory Board

Jonathan Bank
Louise Lapointe
Nello McDaniel
Ruth Moe
Scott Morfee
Catherine Porter
Amanda Szeglowski
Jennifer Williams

Affiliate Artists

 

Vera Beren (Founding Member)
Laura Anderson Barbata
Mecca Akbar
Victor Ayala
Emily Batsford
Tau Bennett
Kirk Bixby
Sam Casey
Mi Sun Choi
Hye Young Chyun
Camille Cooper
Lewis Flinn
Stefan Hagen
J Hann
Sook Kim
Lisa Kitchens
Jeongyun Lee
Monica Lerch
Amy Rose Marsh
Casey McLain
Max Mooney
Kristin Newhouse
Eric Nightengale
Sandra Parris
Joe Phillips
Catherine Porter
Betsy Rosen
Barry Rowell

Support

Amanda Cooper, ALC Management, Booking Agent, AmandaLCooper@gmail.com

Stefan Hagen, Photographer & Graphic Designer

Dr Tax Guy – C.P.A.

Amanda Szeglowski, Marketing Consultant

Lynn Fu, Agent/Touring Producer Asia

newgstudio, Website

Timeline

2024

  • Concrete Boom: Volume 3 (Mini Visual Theatre Festival), Dixon Place, New York, NY
  • Shake on the Lake Residency, PACKRAT 2, Silver Lake, NY
  • Ernie’s Secret Life, New York State Puppet Festival, Perry, NY
  • RESIDENCIA ESCENA CROSS-BORDER: XEPE 2024, Sorona, Mexico
  • Packrat, Center for Puppetry Arts, Atlanta, GA
  • Ernie’s Secret Life, Dixon Place, New York, NY

2023

  • Packrat, (in Spanish) 2023 Edition of the Festival Internacional Cervantino, Guanajuato, Mexico
  • Packrat, (in Spanish) Dixon Place, New York, NY
  • Packrat, National Puppetry Festival, POA, University of Maryland, College Park, MD
  • Stranded, Great Small Works Virtual Toy Theatre Festival
  • Ernie’s Secret Life, Carriage House part of Henson Foundation’s Patch Residency
  • Packrat, (participated in exhibition) This Earth – Concord Arts + Montello Foundation, Concord, MA
  • Hamlet Ride, (residency, in process workshop) Bridge Street Theatre, Catskill, NY

2022

  • Packrat,  Geumnarae Art Hall / Cultural Foundation of Geumchon, Seoul, South Korea
  • Packrat, Oil Tank Culture Park, Seoul, South Korea
  • The Legend of The Waitress & The Robber,  Dixon Place, New York, NY
  • The Legend of The Waitress & The Robber,  Performance Space for the 21st Century/PS21*, Chatham, NY *Developed in Residency at PS21
  • Packrat,  Streaming Video, Edmonds Center for the Arts, Edmonds, WA

2021

  • Stranded, (outside/excerpt)  Spoke the Hub, Brooklyn, NY
  • Stranded, (residency)  Amphibian Stage, Fort Worth, TX
  • Stranded, (excerpt)  Hudson Eye Festival, Hudson, NY
  • Stranded, (excerpt)  Director’s Choice, Spoke the Hub, Brooklyn, NY
  • Hamlet Ride, (a reading)  Spaces@520, Studio E, New York, NY
  • Hamlet Ride, (excerpt)  The Flea Theatre, ew York, NY
  • Packrat,  Streaming Video, Amphibian Stage, Fort Worth, TX
  • A Talkback The Waitress & The Robber: Collaboration in Two Languages Streaming Video and Zoom Event, Korean Cultural Center NY, New York, NY
  • The Waitress & The Robber,  Streaming Video, Korean Cultural Center NY, New York, NY
  • The Waitress & The Robber,  Streaming Video, Korean Culture and Information Service (KOCIS) of the Ministry of Culture, Sports and Tourism, Seoul, South Korea
  • Stranded, (excerpt)  Streaming Video, Spoke the Hub, Brooklyn, NY
  • Geppetto: Extraordinary Extremities,  Streaming Video, The Pontine Theatre, Portsmouth, NH

2020

  • Stranded, (excerpt)  La MaMa Puppetry Slam Live Stream, New York, NY
  • Stranded, (excerpt)  On-the-Street (Bowery and Rivington St) Dixon Place and Peculiar Works, New York, NY
  • Geppetto: Extraordinary Extremities,  Live Stream in conjunction with La MaMa, NYC and Bridge Street Theatre, Catskill, NY
  • Packrat,  Flint Repertory Theatre, Flint, MI
  • Packrat,  (Premiere)  Dixon Place, New York, NY

2019

  • Packrat, (First Look Presentations)  Bridge Street Theatre, Catskill, NY
  • Geppetto: Extraordinary Extremities,  Newburgh Free Library, Newburgh, NY
  • The Waitress & The Robber,  (Developmental Workshop)  KOCCA Multi Content Testbed, Seoul, South Korea
  • Packrat, (Developmental Residency)  Lake Placid Center for the Arts, Lake Placid, NY
  • Concrete Boom: volume 2 (Mini Visual Theatre Festival), Dixon Place, New York, NY

2018

  • Packrat, (excerpt)  La MaMa Puppet Festival: Jump Start, La MaMa, New York, NY
  • Geppetto: Extraordinary Extremities,  New York State Puppet Festival, Theatre@37, Perry, NY
  • Packrat, (excerpt)  Concrete Boom: volume one, Dixon Place, New York, NY
  • Packrat, (excerpt)  TADA, Emerging Artists’ New Works Series, New York, NY
  • Geppetto: Extraordinary Extremities, SUNY-Orange, Kaplan Hall, Newburgh, NY
  • Geppetto: Extraordinary Extremities, Canal Café Theatre, London, UK

2017

  • Geppetto: Extraordinary Extremities, Dixon Place, New York, NY
  • Packrat, (excerpt)  Puppet Blok, Dixon Place, New York, NY
  • Geppetto: Extraordinary Extremities, Detroit Institute of Arts, Detroit, MI
  • Geppetto: Extraordinary Extremities,  Storytelling Arts Center, Laurinburg, NC
  • Remembering Evangeline, HERE, New York, NY
  • Geppetto: Extraordinary Extremities, Gwangju Cultural Center (Art House), Gwangju, South Korea
  • Geppetto: Extraordinary Extremities, Baekseok University, Cheonan City, South Korea
  • Geppetto: Extraordinary Extremities,  Jeju Special Self-governing Province Rehabilitation Center, Jeju, South Korea
  • Geppetto: Extraordinary Extremities,  Global English Center, Jeju, South Korea
  • Geppetto: Extraordinary Extremities,  Jeju Juvenile Corrections Facility, South Korea

2016

  • Geppetto: Extraordinary Extremities,  Flint Institute of Arts Flint Public Library Mott Middle College, Flint Local 432, Flint, MI
  • Geppetto: Extraordinary Extremities, Bridge Street Theatre, Catskill, NY
  • Remembering Evangeline: Part 1, The Pontine Theatre, Portsmouth, NH
  • Remembering Evangeline: Part 1, Dixon Place, New York, NY
  • Geppetto: Extraordinary Extremities, Amphibian Stage Productions, Fort Worth, TX

2015

  • The Bellagio Fountain has been known to Make Me Cry,  HERE, New York, NY
  • Geppetto: Extraordinary Extremities, Dairy Center for the Arts, Boulder, CO
  • Geppetto: Extraordinary Extremities, Diana H. Jones Innovative Senior Center, Brooklyn, NY
  • The Bellagio Fountain, has been known to Make Me Cry  Studio 301 at English Kills, Brooklyn, NY
  • Geppetto: Extraordinary Extremities, Creative Aging Conference, The Creative Center, New York, NY
  • CTT LAB: I am not who you think I am,  Clarion Theatre, New York, NY
  • Geppetto: Extraordinary Extremities, Rowan University, Glassboro, NJ
  • Geppetto: Extraordinary Extremities, Theatre 3, New York, NY

2014

  • The Bellagio Fountain Has Been Known to Make Me Cry, (In Process Showing)  Standard ToyKraft, Brooklyn, NY
  • Geppetto: Extraordinary Extremities, Pontine, Portsmouth, NH
  • Grey Green Canals (In Process Showing), Hudson Opera House, Hudson, New York
  • Lost Hebrew Creek, by Michael Rudman (Reading)  SoHo Playhouse, New York, NY
  • Geppetto: Extraordinary Extremities, OFF BROADWAY, SoHo Playhouse, New York, NY
  • America, by Teatro Impiria, from Verona, Italy Spoke the Hub, Brooklyn; Dixon Place, NYC; City College, NYC
  • Alone in Triptych, HERE, New York, NY
  • Geppetto: Extraordinary Extremities, Teatro Jaco, Jaco and Embassy Club de Artes, Playa Hermosa, Costa Rica

2013

  • Alone in Triptych, (In Process Showing)  Paradise Factory, New York, NY
  • Geppetto,  7 City Tour of Northern Italy
  • Geppetto,  Bard SummerScape Spiegelltent, Annandale-on-Hudson, NY
  • Bird Machine,  Puppet Festival (r)Evolution, Swarthmore, PA
  • Geppetto, HERE Arts Center, New York, NY
  • Geppetto, Hudson Opera House, Hudson, NY
  • The Bystander Project, Taconic Hills Middle School, Craryville, NY
  • The Bystander Project, New York Public Library, Bronx Library Center, Bronx, NY

2012

  • Grey Green Canals, Dixon Place Artist Residency  Dixon Place Theatre, New York, NY
  • The Bystander Project, Montgomery C. Smith Intermediate School, Hudson, NY
  • Alone in Triptych, Dixon Place, New York, NY
  • The Bystander Project, Ichabod Crane Central School, Valatie, NY
  • The Peculiar Extremities of Perseus, Labapalooza! St. Ann’s Warehouse, Brooklyn, NY
  • The Bystander Project, Germantown School, Germantown, NY

2011

  • Hudson to China, Voice 4 Vision Puppet Festival, Theatre for the New City, New York, NY
  • Emperor of Haiti, Langston Hughes Festival  Aaron Davis Hall, New York, NY
  • The Bystander Project, M.C. Intermediate School, Hudson, NY
  • Bird Machine, 2011 PIERROT International Festival, Stara Zagora, Bulgaria, and Small City Theatre, Sofia, Bulgaria
  • Alone in Berlin, Dixon Place, New York, NY
  • Bird Machine, 14th Istanbul International Puppet Festival, Istanbul, Turkey and Merinos Cultural Center, Bursa, Turkey
  • The Whale, Pontine Theatre, Portsmouth, NH

2010

  • Hudson to China, Dixon Place, New York, NY
  • Bird Machine, Orlando Puppet Festival, Orlando, FL
  • Bird Machine, Secret Theatre, Queens, NY
  • Hudson to China, Great Small Works, 9th International Toy Theatre Festival, St. Ann’s Warehouse, Brooklyn, NY

2009

  • Hudson to China, Hudson Opera House, Hudson, NY
  • Bird Machine, Theater Three, New York, NY
  • The Whale, Barrow Street Theatre, Off-Broadway, New York, NY

2008

  • The Whale, Seven City Tour, India and Sri Lanka
  • Imperia, Save the World, The Flea Theater, New York, NY
  • Alberto’s Great Escape, Hudson Opera House, Hudson, NY
  • Alberto’s Great Escape, Pompanuck Farm, Cambridge, NY

2007

  • The Whale, West Shore Performing Arts Series, Scottville, MI
  • Bird Machine, Access Theatre, New York, NY
  • Alberto’s Great Escape, 78th Street Theatre Lab, New York, NY
  • The Whale, The University of Michigan, Flint, MI

2006

  • Alberto’s Great Escape, Pleasance Courtyard, Cavern Theatre, Edinburgh, Scotland
  • The Whale, The Yard & MV Historical Society, Martha’s Vineyard, MA
  • The WanderLUSTers Present ‘Achtung Grimm!,’ Ice Factory Festival, Ohio Theatre, New York, NY
  • The WanderLUSTers Present ‘Achtung Grimm!,’ Henry Street Settlement, Abrons Arts Center, New York, NY
  • The WanderLUSTers Present ‘Achtung Grimm!,’ Westend Theatre, New York, NY

2005

  • Alberto’s Great Escape, Yonkers Public Library Auditorium, Yonkers, NY
  • The Whale, Whaling Museum/NHA, Nantucket, MA
  • The WanderLUSTers Present ‘Achtung Grimm!,’ chashama@Queens Plaza, Queens, NY
  • She Who Burns: Le Cirque du Wonder World, chashama@Queens Plaza, Queens, NY

2004

  • The Whale, Sarah Lawrence College, Bronxville, NY
  • Bird Machine, (a segment)  Arts at St. Ann’s, Labapalooza!, Brooklyn, NY
  • Bird Machine, (workshop)  Workshop/Reading, EST, New York, NY
  • The WanderLUSTers Present ‘Achtung Grimm!,’ West End Theatre w/Six Figures, New York, NY
  • The Whale, Regina A. Quick Center for the Arts, St. Bonaventure, NY

2003

  • The Whale, Bentley College, Waltham, MA
  • The Whale, Assembly Rooms, Edinburgh, Scotland
  • The Whale, 78th Street Theatre Lab, New York, NY

2002

  • She Who Burns: Le Cirque du Wonder World, Dixon Place, New York, NY
  • In the Boom Boom Room, by David Rabe, Show World, New York, NY

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