ABOUT US

Mercury Store is a lab space. It offers theatre artists the opportunity to draft in three dimensions.

Mercury Store exists to prove a hypothesis:

Does providing resources - time, space, funding, community - make for better - more exciting, more weird, more intentional art - and happier people making it?

These are some of the things we think about:

LOW STAKES, HIGH EXPECTATIONS

• A fundamental focus on supporting and exploring the theatre artist’s practice.

• A commitment to and expectation of rigorous artistic experiment.

• No requirement that any piece of art needs to meet an outside expectation, or indeed should be “finished.”

COMMUNITY

• Direct lines of communication between staff and artists.

• Open studios and process sharings to encourage conversation among artists and demystify the creative process.

• Educational programs for theater artists of all disciplines and experience to work on their art and their craft, among peers and mentors.

FAIRNESS

• An equitable allocation of resources to artists.

• A healthy working environment: mutual respect, fair pay, reasonable working hours, care reimbursement, assignment of intimacy coordinators.

• A commitment to working with artists across the artistic and demographic spectrum.