The Flea has announced resident companies for their 2025, 2026, and 2027 seasons.
The program, which sees the Off-Broadway stalwart provide an artistic home for smaller companies making boundary-breaking work, was born out of The Flea's refounded mission in 2021. The resident companies for the next three seasons will be viBe Theater Experience and TRIBE.
viBe Theater Experience is a Brooklyn-based performing arts non-profit organization that provides free theatre and music education programming, academic, and wellness support services, youth leadership and workforce development opportunities to BIPOC girls, young women, and gender-expansive youth ages 13-26 throughout New York City and nation-wide.
"This partnership represents a new era for viBe. Originally founded in 2012, the young adult acting ensemble was designed to provide artistic and professional training to femme-identifying and emerging actors, playwrights, and directors of color. Now, as the Key Resident Company of The Flea Theater, viBe celebrates this legacy of experimental theatre-making and artistic leadership by BIPOC femmes and looks forward to deepening its artistic footprint on NYC’s arts and culture sector - providing creative opportunities to entirely new company members, in-person for the first time since the COVID-19 pandemic,” said Beryl Ford and Michelan Le'Monier, Co-Executive Directors of viBe Theater Experience.
TRIBE is a Brooklyn-based non-profit arts organization and multidisciplinary arts collective that was founded by MacArthur fellow Shamel Pitts in December 2019. TRIBE’s mission is "cultivating space to create a platform for artists with huge inspiration from the Afrofuturism movement".
“TRIBE is thrilled to begin our artist-in-residency program at The Flea Theater. This partnership is a powerful opportunity to bring our creative vision to life in a space dedicated to fostering innovative and thought-provoking work. We look forward to pushing boundaries and inspiring our audiences in this dynamic community,” said Pitts.
