Happening Now
In the Fall 2025, White Box Theatre will be in the research, design, build, and workshop phase for several new multi-disciplinary performance works. These include: Twist the Grid, SOURCE: Goats, Gloves, and Ordinary Birds, a site specific work at Glen Foerd. And a new work in collaboration with the Penn Museum, Title TBA.
Mundheim will be Artist-in-Residence, for the second year at University of Pennsylvania’s Weitzman School of Design, working with third year architecture and landscape architecture students in Annette Fierro’s course, Urban Opera River L’Arc.
In the Spring, Summer, and Fall 2026, White Box Theatre will share three works. In March 2026, Swarthmore College will present a remount of Bartok’s Monster, a work co-created by White Box Theatre, Pig Iron School and the Deadalus Quartet which premiered at PennLive Arts in 2024. In May 2026 we will share the first iteration of Twist the Grid, through ArtPhilly’s 2026: What Now Festival, in June 2026 will remount Kea and the Ark, along with a speaker/workshop series. In December 2026, we will present a work commissioned by the Penn Museum, title TBA. Dates for SOURCE: Goats, Gloves, and Ordinary Birds TBA.
… a beautifully crafted, concise performance … SO TIMELY…
… I drove home with a sense of wonder …
– Kohler Arts Center, Audience Response
Projects
A performance project Commissioned by ArtPhilly for the 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 reimaging history-telling – through table-top-theatre history lesson, dance, installation, puppetry, song and storytelling, Sebastienne Mundheim and 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.
Twist the Grid (Working Title)
Bartok’s Monster: Remount Swarthmore College
In the first week of March 2026, we will remount Bartok’s Monster. It will be set on Swarthmore students. Dan Rothenberg and Pig Iron will lead the effort. Daedalus Quartet and the lead actor will perform.
More About Bartok’s Monster
Kea and the Ark
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.
SOURCE: Goats and Gloves and Ordinary Birds: A Site-Specific Work at Glen Foerd
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.
Collaboration with Penn Museum: New Native American Exhibition
White Box Theatre will create an original performance for intergenerational audiences at the Penn Museum in December 2026.
Artist-in-Residence: Weitzman School of Design, Architecture Program
University of Pennsylvania
Mundheim will be a dramaturg and thought partner for students creating performances integrating video projection, sound scoring, object-building, movement, and storytelling. The performances will consider ecology, history, and imagined architectures along the L’Arc River, France.