… a beautifully crafted, concise performance … SO TIMELY…
… I drove home with a sense of wonder …
– Kohler Arts Center, Audience Response
KEA and the ARK - June 2026
Kea Tawana built a 20-ton ark in the central ward of the City of Newark. Kea and the Ark is a 60-minute performance using storytelling, puppetry, electric cello, and movement to tell her story.
6/25: 7pm • 6/26: 6pm & 8:30pm • 6/27: 1:30pm, 5:30pm & 8:30pm • 6/30: 7pm • 7/1: 7pm @ The Sedgwick Theater: 7137 Germantown Ave, Philadelphia, PA 19119
Twist the Grid (Work-In-Progress) - June 2026
A project commissioned by ArtPhilly 2026: What Now … Festival
The language of the Declaration of Independence, the language of treaties, how do these historic words and the river come together? In praise of floods and reimagining history-telling – through table-top-theatre history lesson, dance, installation, puppetry, song and storytelling, Sebastienne Mundheim/White Box Theatre with collaborators Harlee Trautman, Daniel de Jesus, Ain Gordon and others takes us on a journey through these historic words and the environment from which they came.
Join White Box Theatre artists Harlee Trautman, Daniel de Jesus, Kennedy Candra, and Sebastienne at Quintessence Theatre in a workshop incorporating writing, movement and sculpture installation as part addressing this work:
6/4: 6-9pm • 6/5: 6-9pm
Collaboration with National Museum of American Latino at the Smithsonian:
Puro Ritmo (New Performance Event) - September 2026
White Box Theatre is collaborating to develop object theatre performance for young audiences introducing the history of Salsa Music.
Collaboration with Penn Museum: New Native American Exhibition - December 2026
White Box Theatre will create an original performance for intergenerational audiences at the Penn Museum in December 2026.
Goats and Gloves and Ordinary Birds: A Site-Specific Work at Glen Foerd - Anticipated 2027
Through puppetry, dance, organ music, and storytelling White Box Theatre invites into a lesson in history of industry in Philadelphia, ecology, and visions of the future … a funny, provocative, poetic meditation on where things come from.