Since 2011, K-Space has devised four full-length plays—disOriented (2011), TALA (2015), PILLOWTALK (2018), NERO (2024)—and created over 45 community-based, experimental projects. Our work centers stories of (im)migration, queerness, trauma and the ways these intersect in communities of color; it’s described as “intensely personal” by American Theater Magazine and “very much of this moment” by the New York Times.
How We Devise Work
K-Space’s Peacemaking Theater™ has been performed at The Brick, New Ohio Theater, HERE, BRIC, LaGuardia Performing Arts Center, Performance Project @ University Settlement, developed in residence at Pregones/Puerto Rican Traveling Theater, Baryshnikov Arts Center, Bushwick Starr, University of Washington and K-Space has toured to Victory Gardens (Chicago), Centro Cultural Gabriela Mistral (Santiago, Chile) and Ewha Womans University (South Korea).
K-Space grew from an underground collective of like-minded artists gathering in a midtown apartment to a devising company creating work for our community, which is primarily queer, Asian-American, Latine, and immigrant. Our ensemble is comprised of Mondragons, resident artists who practice consensus-based decision-making on our performances, design and long-term artistic priorities.
In our devising process, we challenge each other to work outside our trained disciplines. We invite non-artists to make theater with us to dismantle the divisions that artificially separate professional and amateur artists. We design our process to be open-ended and refine our work in dialogue with our community, by facilitating community driven conversations as invitations to collectively problem-solve issues and identify local opportunities for change. These conversations fuel our process, which averages 3-4 years, as theater making becomes a catalyst for advancing social change.
Our Mondragons are diverse artists from different cultures, working in different disciplines, and we collaboratively frame our stories through an anti-oppression lens. By breaking the boundaries of language, culture, and artistic forms of expression, we theatricalize invisible systems of oppression by melding text, performance, movement, music, visual and sound design.
Our Repertory
