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Twinhead Theatre
A Brief History of Twinhead TheatreTwinhead Theatre has been providing cheap thrills to the Atlanta community since 2003. Originally formed as an arts collaborative by a group of Georgia State students, the ensemble has grown and mutated into an independent, non-profit theater company. Our budget and sense of humor may have grown (slightly), but we have maintained our original vision and mission:To inspire and entertain our community and lead a new generation of theatrical performance by developing and producing plays, films, and performance-based events. We push the boundaries of traditional theater with uniquemultimedia productions and innovative concepts applied to both original and existing works.Since our inception, Twinhead has produced 30 works, 25 of which were originally written by the ensemble. These shows often feel like a party the audience is crashing. This has been true since our first production, Social Maladies: the Comedies all the way up to our most recent Midnight Cakesit (our annual food drive). In between we have tackled Elizabethan tragedy (Arden of Faversham), feminist deconstruction (Stand-in Sisters, Resisting the Birthmark), parodies (Christian Comic Chaos!, Choose Your Adventure), and have been proud to produce occasional outside written works like Nicky Silver's Pterodactyls, Whatever, which adapted Heather Woodbury's one-woman epic into a five-piece, ten-hour play, Susan Lori-Parks' nationwide collaboration 365 Plays/365 Days, and The Missoula Oblongata's beautiful disaster play The Wonders of the World: Recite. We've also taken liberties with classics, like inserting zombies into Anton Chekov's The Cherry Orchard and turning Shakespeare into a stoner for the hilarious Shake 'n Bake. We have had the privilege of performing all over the Atlanta area and toured Resisting the Birthmark to the 2006 Minnesota Fringe Festival. In 2008 we joined forces with Bland Hack Pictures to create our first feature-length film Loaded Guns: the Movie. Based on our live sketch-comedy show, the film played to delighted crowds in both Atlanta and Iraq.Our goals are and continue to be: -to produce shows on conservative budgets to preserve low ticket prices andmake art accessible to everyone in our community;-to run an environmentally green space that serves as a hub for fostering collaborations with our community;-to pursue new avenues of technology and multimedia;-to provide comprehensive arts education; and-to produce the first play on the moon.Next up, we're creating exciting new web series and assisting the planning and organizing of the first Atlanta Fringe Festival! We hope to make a huge difference in the Atlanta theater scene in this next year and beyond.
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