The Wooster Group is a company of artists based in New York City that makes work for theater, dance, and media. We develop and perform our work at The Performing Garage in Manhattan at 33 Wooster Street. We also bring our work to other venues in New York as well as other theaters around the world on national and international tours.
The company has sustained a full-time, ongoing ensemble since the mid-70’s. We are constantly morphing. With our many artistic associates, we have created and performed over fifty works directed by Elizabeth LeCompte.
Our commitment to working as an ensemble and self-producing outside the commercial system has allowed us to create work in-depth over long periods of time. This way of working defines our artistic practice and evolving aesthetic.
Current Company & Associates
Aaron Amodt, Evan Anderson, Alex Artaud, Antonia Belt, Eric Berryman, Zbigniew Bzymek, Hai-Ting Chinn, Niall Cunningham, Maya Davis, Dennis Dermody, Matthew Dipple, Amir ElSaffar, Mike Farry, Jim Fletcher, Ari Fliakos, David Glista, Clay Hapaz, Nile Harris, Cynthia Hedstrom, Jonathan Hull, Bruce Jackson, Yudam Hyung Seok Jeon, Marika Kent, Ken Kobland, Elizabeth LeCompte, Bona Lee, Andrew Maillet, Frances McDormand, Tavish Miller, Erin Mullin, Michaela Murphy, Guillermo Resto, Suzzy Roche, Kaneza Schaal, David Sexton, Scott Shepherd, Joseph Silovsky, Eric Sluyter, Phillip Edward Spradley, Maura Tierney, Jennifer Tipton, Ariana Smart Truman, Kate Valk, Monika Wunderer, Jharis Yokley, Omar Zubair
Founding and Original Members
Elizabeth LeCompte, Spalding Gray (1941-2004), Jim Clayburgh, Ron Vawter (1948-1994), Willem Dafoe, Kate Valk, Peyton Smith
Board
Paul Schiff Berman, Jim Clayburgh, Ari Fliakos, Cynthia Hedstrom, Elizabeth LeCompte, Peyton Smith, Kate Valk
Advisory Board
George Ahl, Managing Director, Forum Partners
Paul Schiff Berman, Walter S. Cox Professor of Law, George Washington University
Bernard Dikman, Certified Public Accountant
Marilynn Donini, Director of External Affairs, St. Ann's Warehouse
Laurie Hawkinson, Architect, Smith-Miller & Hawkinson Architects
Joan Jonas, Artist
Mary & Sean Kelly, Sean Kelly Gallery
Karen Lashinsky, Owner, 632 on Hudson
Catherine Orentreich, Physician, Orentreich Family Foundation
Ann Philbin, Director, Hammer Museum
Steven Phillips, formerly ExxonMobil Foundation
Bruce Rayvid, Producer, Bruce Rayvid Projects
Peter Sellars, Theater Director
Tanya Selvaratnam, Writer, Producer and Actor
Phillip Edward Spradley Visual Arts Consultant
Henry Threadgill, Composer/Musician
Maura Tierney, Film and Stage Actor
Michael Tracy, Retired, formerly UBS Financial Services
Erica Weissman, Clinical & Forensic Psychologist
Jaime Wolf, Attorney, Pelosi Wolf Effron & Spates, LLP
