About

Our Mission

The mission of The Deconstructive Theatre Project is to create bold original work for the theatre that is intensely collaborative and uniquely theatrical, and to utilize the benefits of ensemble collaboration in art and education.

Our Story

The Deconstructive Theatre Project was launched by Founding Director Adam J. Thompson in 2006.  The company’s name is loosely inspired by the work of Jacques Derrida, the founder of the  philosophy of deconstruction.


Deconstruction is not a dismantling of the structure of a text, but a demonstration that it has already dismantled itself. Its apparently-solid ground is no rock, but thin air.


The company investigates:

  • the ways in which elements of the theatrical vocabulary communicate both with one another and with an audience; and
  • how the vocabularies of other art forms can be utilized in creating performance.

    • The Deconstructive Theatre Project encourages its members to discard specialized artistic roles such as playwright, actor, and designer, and to instead approach each new project as both a theatrical archeologist and well-rounded theatre-maker.  We champion long-term development of original material that is hyper-theatrical and hyper-visual.

    Our work is process-oriented and is dedicated to uncovering new ways for artists to interact with one another and with their audiences.  We pursue this goal by inviting our community to actively partake in the process of observation and creation, and by partnering with those cultural organizations which will expand the scope of our work.

    The company inaugurated its existence with Moisés Kaufman’s Gross Indecency: The Three Trials of Oscar Wilde, and in the three years since has created and presented a number of original works including Brecht & Co., The Girlie Show, and The American Sex Project, as well as a site-specific staged reading of Michel Marc Bouchard’s Lilies, or The Revival of a Romantic Drama.

    The company is currently developing a number of new interdisciplinary projects including Atomic Triptych, The Orpheus Variations, and Colonia.