“together with artists, we imagine theatre that has never been done in places where it has never happened.”
— Anne Hamburger, Executive Artistic Director, En Garde Arts
En Garde Arts’ Next World Premieres:
73 Seconds
created & performed by: Jared Mezzocchi
directed & Developed by: AYA OGAWA
Prelude: a day to
remember forever
written by: chuck mee
adapted & directed: anne bogart
October 2026
A public performance about
the love we share,
Harbor, & give.
The Matter of the
Disappearance
of Michael Anthony Smith, Jr.
written by: Bill Martin
Directed & Developed by: Seth Bockley
World Premiere: December 2026
When a soldier long presumed
dead walks back into his family’s life, the reunion
isn’t a miracle… it’s an aftershock.
a day to remember
forever
written by: chuck mee
adapted & directed: anne bogart
World Premiere: June 2026
Bogart. Mee. Hamburger. Yoo.
A homecoming for four of
NYC’s most iconic
Artists at La MaMa.
Uncommon voices 2026
En garde arts’ developmental residency program
objects of
decadence
written & Created by: Chisa hutchinson
taking on the fraught history of
museum curation
& its deep ties with colonization
& historical extraction.
Who Cares?
Written & Created By: Camila madero
three New Yorkers are drawn together
exploring intergenerational friendship as
a lifeline in choppy waters.
SpAnglish Sh!t
Book and Lyrics by: Samora La Perdida
Music by: Josiah Handelman, Matthew Zwiebel, & Mobéy Lola Irizarry
Dramaturgy by: Paloma Sierra
the revolution will
be Bilingual.
Taxilandia:
fort greene, bed-stuy, east new york
Created By: Modesto Flako Jimenez
an immersive EXPERIENCE
that drives into the
specific & localized
impacts of gentrification on artists
TOKITAE
Created by: Taibi Magar
PUPPETRY by: Amanda Villalobos
the story Tokitae the orca &
the quest of the lummi nation people
to return her home to the Salish Sea.
A foreign body
Written by: Neena Beber
Directed by: Theresa Rebeck
a woman who finds the courage
to refuse to stay silent.
reclaiming power, truth, and her sense of self.
The City is
our stage
en garde arts in the press
