600 HIGHWAYMEN

Since 2009, 600 HIGHWAYMEN (Abigail Browde and Michael Silverstone) have been making live art that, through a variety of radical approaches, illuminates the inherent poignancy of people coming together. The work exists at the intersection of theater, dance, contemporary performance, and civic encounter. Though the processes are varied, each project revolves around the same curiosity: what occurs in the live encounter between people. 

Their original works have been performed in the U.S. at The Public Theater (NYC), American Repertory Theater (Cambridge),  AT&T Performing Arts Center (Dallas), Kimmel Center (Philadelphia), La Jolla Playhouse (La Jolla), Luminato Festival (Toronto), Museum of Contemporary Art (Chicago), On The Boards (Seattle), PuSh Festival (Vancouver), Spoleto Festival (Charleston, SC), Walker Arts Center (Minneapolis), Wexner Center for the Arts (Columbus), Woolly Mammoth (Washington, DC); as well as abroad, at Centre Pompidou and Parc de la Villette (France), Dublin Theatre Festival (Ireland), Theaterformen (Germany), Noorderzon (The Netherlands), Zürcher Theater Spektakel (Switzerland), MESS Festival (Sarajevo), Onassis Cultural Centre (Greece), Bristol Old Vic (UK), OzAsia Festival (Australia), Salzburg Festival (Austria), and The Arts Center at NYU Abu Dhabi (UAE), and others. 

600 HIGHWAYMEN has been called the “the standard-bearers of contemporary theater-making” by Le Monde, and “one of New York’s best nontraditional theater companies” by The New Yorker. They have received commissions from The Public Theater, Temple Contemporary, Salzburg Festival, and Festival Theaterformen. They are recipients of an Obie Award and Switzerland’s ZKB Patronize Prize, and nominees for Austria’s Nestroy Prize, the prestigious Alpert Award and NYC’s Bessie Award. In 2016, Browde and Silverstone were named artist fellows by the New York Foundation for the Arts.