… 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 share her life and work.
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, Kennedy Candra, Payton Smith, and Ain Gordon takes us on a journey through these historic words and the environment from which they came.
Join White Box Theatre artists at The Sedgwick Theatre as part of ArtPhilly’s What Now Festival in a development workshop for Twist the Grid. The workshop will incorporate writing, movement and sculpture installation.
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 Contested Estate. A Site-Specific Work at Glen Foerd - Anticipated 2027
Puppetry, dance, organ music, and multiple voices in storytelling, move through the robber baron mansion on the widest place on the Delaware River to present history, economies, and ecologies from varying perspectives in a funny, provocative, poetic meditation on where things come from and how spaces are inhabited.