exit strategy

exit strategy has spent the past year developing exit strategy presents HOW TO WIN A GAMESHOW , made possible by the generous support of Fractured Atlas, Triplets Amsterdam, Target Margin, and all of YOU. We have just confirmed with our venue and production team at The SpaceUK that we will be taking Gameshow to Edinburgh Fringe in August 2026. Your contributions at this exciting time will go towards supporting lodging, travel, venue fees, and per diem stipends for our four performers during our 16-show run. Donations will also support rehearsal space rentals as we continue developmental here in NYC.

Gameshow opens to find a singular contestant–Graham–alone at a table. Graham has been the star of a popular gameshow for 324 days. Maybe? At least that’s what they tell him. Led by a series of violently charming hosts, Graham and the audience compete against rules  neither party understands. The tasks are invasive, the stakes mysteriously high, and the audience increasingly implicated.

Part performance art, part improv show, part ethics inquiry, Gameshow blurs the line between performer and audience-rendering everyone subject to  scrutiny and manipulation by an absurd, controlling, overarching force. Gameshow asks, is there ever such a thing as a passive witness? More about gameshow can be found in our producer deck, here. 

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exit strategy is a New York City-based performance collective investigating the role of the audience in live performance. Drawing on the founding members’ backgrounds in dance, martial arts, visual composition, and Grotowski-lineage physical theatre, exit strategy’s work pursues a state of primal, kinetic presence in performers and audience alike–often blurring the line between the two. Our work challenges the conventional expectation that audience members can ever be passive witnesses to what unfolds around them. Through a process full of hilarity, uncanniness, and a healthy dose of absurdism, our work stands in direct contrast to film, social media, and all technologies of surveillance capitalism that encourage people to think of themselves as compliant consumers of art. By creating confronting immersive performances, we ask our audience to consider their relationship to conformity, complicity, and action both inside and outside of the theatrical space.