Theatre Reverb is a company of interdisciplinary artists from the United States and Central Europe that creates original theatre pieces and spectacles.  The company was founded in early 2006 by Kristin Arnesen and Radoslaw Konopka and is dedicated to their mission of developing innovative, daring new work and hybrid pieces.  Their productions combine loose narrative, dance and video with sampled material from mass media, popular culture and news headlines.  Their works have explored topical issue from militarism and fear culture to sexual politics and celebrity worship.  Theatre Reverb’s unique style is influenced by silent cinema, popular culture, circus arts and classical Indian theatre which Kristin and Radoslaw studied together in Kerala India. The New York press has called Theatre Reverb: the “pre-postmodernism of Tristan Tzara and Dada”; “fringe theatre at it’s very best”; “spontaneous, endearingly eccentric and extremely funny”; and a “strip tease/garbage fest/dance party.”

Christopher Thomas Gilkey joined the company soon after its inception and since that time Theatre Reverb has created four original full-length theatre pieces and a number of short spectacles and film and video works that have been shown at venues throughout New York (e.g. Under St Marks, Teatro La Tea, The KGB Red Room Theatre, Galapagos Art Space, the Kraine Theatre, and Joria Productions).  They have also presented works at The FRIGID New York Festival (2008, and 2010) the Boulder International Fringe Festival (2009), and as guest artists at Festival St-Ambroise Fringe de Montreal (2011), the Ottawa Fringe (2011), and at the Buddies in Bad Times Theatre in Toronto (2011).  Theatre Reverb is a company-in-residence at Galapagos Art Space in New York where they are regular hosts and performers in the venue’s weekly flagship series The Floating Kabarette (ongoing).

The company’s first full-length production was featured on the “Polsat International,” Polish television network’s program Faces of America (Oblicza Ameryki, 2006).  They won “Audience Choice” and “Sold Out” awards for their FRIGID festival production, ExcesSecret: “¿Guess What ‘It’s’ About?” (FRIGID New York, 2008), and received project grants from the City University of New York (2007/2008).