ArKtype is recognized as among the industry’s leading supporters of new, experimental work. Established in 2005 by producer Thomas O. Kriegsmann to support the finest in emerging and established artists based in NYC and worldwide, we support risk in live performance – creating an ever-shifting mechanism for the fulfillment of artists’ visions for new work, international collaboration, production and touring. The company has grown to encompass renowned artists from twenty-five different countries at any given time, limitless genres and commercial and non-profit support structures for a variety of spaces. Realizing the infrastructural demands of the artist in an environment of limited funding and financial support for creative endeavors, ArKtype aims to balance infrastructural support with creative growth, allowing the artist a long-term relationship with a producing entity based on establishing the artist’s continued presence in the national and international regional theater and arts presenter communities.

The company’s past work in the U.S. and abroad includes projects with Brooklyn Academy of Music, Lincoln Center Theater, New York Theatre Workshop, Market Theatre (Johannesburg), Hartford Stage Company, Barbican Centre, Oxford Playhouse, Noorderzon Festival, Performance Space 122 (Fresh Terrain Festival of Performance Theater, Austin, TX), Chicago Shakespeare Theater, Berkeley Rep, Actors Theater of Louisville, Center Theatre Group / Mark Taper Forum, Apollo Theater, NYU/Skirball Center for the Performing Arts, Bouffes du Nord, ArtsEmerson and The Kitchen, among many others. Mr. Kriegsmann’s acclaimed work as producer has been seen worldwide, proudly beginning his work in the production and development of emerging ensembles. His work includes projects with Mikhail Baryshnikov, Peter Brook, Anna Deavere Smith, Yael Farber, Daniel Fish, Annie-B Parson & Paul Lazar, Dmitry Krymov, Ohad Naharin, Lisa Peterson, Anna Deavere Smith, Julie Taymor, Tony Taccone, and many others. His work as curating producer includes three seasons as Director of Programs at New York Live Arts, including the unprecedented festival Live Ideas: MENA/Future – Cultural Transformations in the Middle East North Africa Region, and previously spent additional three seasons producing the Baryshnikov Arts Center’s Ringling International Arts Festival in Sarasota, FL, as well as curating live events for three seasons at South Street Seaport’s Spiegelworld. Recent premieres include Big Dance Theater / Mikhail Baryshnikov’s MAN IN A CASE, the U.S. premiere of Nalaga’at Deaf-Blind Theater’s NOT BY BREAD ALONE, Andrew Ondrejcak & Shara Worden’s YOU US WE ALL (BAM Next Wave Festival), The Freedom Theatre’s THE SIEGE, and Peter Sellars & Regg Roc’s FLEXN. Additional recent collaborations include 600 HIGHWAYMEN (Brooklyn), 59 Productions (London), Aaron Landsman (New York), Bryce Dessner (New York, Paris); Daniel Fish (Brooklyn), Rude Mechs (Austin, TX), Andrew Ondrejcak & Shara Worden (Brooklyn/Detroit), Theatre for a New Audience (New York), Baryshnikov Productions (New York), Denis O’Hare & Lisa Peterson (New York), Nalaga’at Deaf-Blind Theater (Tel Aviv), Big Dance Theater (New York), Byron Au Yong & Aaron Jafferis (Settle/New Haven), John Cameron Mitchell (New York), CHRISTEENE (???), Soho Rep. (New York), Brent Green (Cassona, PA), Byron Au Yong & Aaron Jafferis (Seattle/New Haven), Kaneza Schaal & Chris Myers (Brooklyn), Jessica Blank & Erik Jensen (Brooklyn), Sam Green w/ yMusic & Yo La Tengo (Brooklyn), Compagnia T.P.O. (Italy), World/Inferno Friendship Society (Brooklyn), Nora Chipaumire (Zimbabwe/New York) and Ethan Lipton & His Orchestra (Brooklyn). Upcoming premieres include Jessica Black & Erik Jensen’s HOW TO BE A ROCK CRITIC (Under the Radar, January 2019), Byron Au Yong & Aaron Jafferis’ TRIGGER (Virginia Tech, MDC Live, Arts & Ideas and Yerba Buena Center for the Arts), 600 Highwaymen’s DEATH OF A SALESMAN (Jan 2019), Nora Chipaumire’s #PUNK100%POP*NIGGA (Summer/Fall 2018), Sam Green & Kronos Quartet’s A THOUSAND THOUGHTS (Jan 2018), Kaneza Schaal & Chris Myers’ CARTOGRAPHY I, Aaron Landsman’s SQUARES, and Bryce Dessner’s UNTITLED MAPPLETHORPE PROJECT.

No. 001 World/Inferno Friendship Society’s ADDICTED TO BAD IDEAS: PETER LORRE’s 20th CENTURY, Directed by Jay Scheib (Fall 2008)
No. 002 The Farber Foundry’s MoLoRa, Adapted and Directed by Yael Farber, Market Theater, Johannesburg, SA (Spring 2008)
No. 003 Peter Brook’s THE GRAND INQUISITOR, From The Brothers Karamazov by Dostoyesvsky, Off-Broadway Premiere, Adaption by Marie-Hélène Estienne, Directed by Peter Brook
No. 004 Phantom Limb’s 69°S., Co-Conceived by David Harrington / Kronos Quartet, Directed by Sophie Hunter (Fall 2012)
No. 005 Phantom Limb’s LEMONY SNICKET’S THE COMPOSER IS DEAD, Directed by Tony Taccone (Fall 2011)
No. 006 Jay Scheib’s WORLD OF WIRES, Adapted and Directed by Scheib after the film by Rainer Werner Fassbinder (Jan 2012)
No. 007 Nalaga’at Theater’s NOT BY BREAD ALONE (US Premiere), Skirball Center for the Performing Arts, New York, NY (Jan/Feb 2013)
No. 008 IN PARIS (A Play), Adapted from the short story by Ivan Bunin, Direction and Adaptation by Dmitry Krymov, starring Mikhail Baryshnikov
No. 009 MAN IN A CASE, from two short stories by Anton Chekhov, Adapted and Directed by Annie-B Parson and Paul Lazar/Big Dance Theater, featuring Mikhail Baryshnikov (Feb 2013)
No. 010 Aaron Jafferis & Byron Au Yong’s STUCK ELEVATOR, Directed by Chay Yew and Produced in Association with ACT, San Francisco, Festival of Arts & Ideas / Long Wharf Theater, New Haven, CT (Jun 2013)
No. 011 Dayna Hanson’s THE CLAY DUKE, Noorderzon Festival, Groningen, Holland & On the Boards, Seattle (August/December 2013)
No. 012 Jay Scheib’s PLATONOV or THE DISINHERITED & “THE DISINHERITED” (Live Performance Cinema Simulcast), Adapted and Directed by Jay Scheib, La Jolla Playhouse, La Jolla, CA & The Kitchen, New York, NY (October 2013 & January 2014)
No. 013 Mikel Rouse & Ben Neill’s THE DEMO (Feb 2014)
No. 014 Denis O’Hare & Lisa Peterson’s AN ILIAD, Touring Version (Fall 2013)
No. 015 Jessica Blank & Erik Jensen’s HOW TO BE A ROCK CRITIC: BASED ON THE WRITINGS OF LESTER BANGS, Written by Jessica Black & Erik Jensen, Directed by Jessica Blank (October 2015, Under the Radar Jan 2018)
No. 016 Sam Green’s THE MEASURE OF ALL THINGS (w/ yMusic & Todd Griffin / Brendan Canty / Catherine McRae), Written and Directed by Sam Green (Spring 2014)
No. 017 Andrew Ondrejcak and Shara Worden’s YOU US WE ALL, in collaboration with Baroque Orchestration X (June 2014)
No. 018 Aaron Jafferis & Byron Au Yong’s TRIGGER (World Premiere March 2017, Virginia Tech’s Moss Arts Center, MDC Live, International Festival of Arts & Ideas and Nationwide 2016-18)
No. 019 Peter Sellars & Regg Roc’s FLEXN, in collaboration with members of the FLEXN community (September 2015)
No. 020 Live Ideas: MENA/Future – Cultural Transformations in the Middle East North Africa Region (Feb-April 2016)
No. 021 Andrew Ondrejcak’s ELIJAH GREEN, Written, directed and designed by Andrew Ondrejcak, Choreography by John Jasperse, Soundscape by Kristin Worrall, Additional music by Shara Worden (Spring 2016)
No. 022 Sam Green + Kronos Quartet’s UNTITLED KRONOS PROJECT, Written & Directed by Sam Green, Featuring Kronos Quartet (Spring 2018)
No. 023 Kaneza Schaal + Chris Myers’ CARTOGRAPHY I, Created by Kaneza Schaal & Chris Myers (Fall 2018)
No. 024 Aaron Landsman’s SQUARES, Based on the work of Paul Shambroom, Created by Mallory Catlett, Jim Findlay and Aaron Landsman (2019-20)
No. 025 Bryce Dessner’s UNTITLED MAPPLETHORPE PROJECT featuring Roomful of Teeth, with Libretto by Robert O’Hara, Video Design by Jim Findlay, and Direction by Daniel Fish (Spring 2019)
No. 026 Anna Deavere Smith’s NOTES FROM THE FIELD: Doing Time in Education, Created, Written & Performed by Anna Deavere Smith (Spring 2018)