Sinking Ship Productions

“[Audiences are] constantly looking for the next new thing… and with this talented company, we may have found it.” —Jason Zinoman, The New York Times

MISSION
Sinking Ship Productions creates work that is the theatrical version of circumnavigating the globe in a questionably seaworthy vessel: grand and ridiculous, unadvisedly ambitious, and possibly delusional as we sail full tilt to the horizon.

Sinking Ship, a Brooklyn-based theater company, is the creative collaboration between Jonathan Levin and Josh Luxenberg. We work with a core group of Associate Artists, combining physical theater, puppetry, music and movement in delightful, strange and unexpected ways. Our productions have grappled with concepts such as the creation and destruction of the universe as imagined by science fiction writers, how a man’s search for connection could ultimately lead to complete isolation, and the limits of human understanding through the search for extra dimensions of space in theoretical physics. We like big ideas.

HISTORY
Sinking Ship’s original works include A HUNGER ARTIST (premiere at Connelly Theatre, 2017, co-produced by The Tank as part of their Flint & Tinder series, nominated for two Drama Desk Awards; UK premiere at Edinburgh Fringe, 2017, WINNER - Summhall’s Lustrum Award for Excellence), POWERHOUSE (work-in-progress at FringeNYC, 2010; premiere at New Ohio Theatre, 2014, O’Neill Playwrights Conference Finalist, 2012; New York Times Critics Pick), THERE WILL COME SOFT RAINS (FringeNYC, extended at Barrow Street Theater, 2008), OCEAN (work-in-progress, Mabou Mines Resident Artist Program, 2016), and FLATLAND (work-in-progress, EST/Sloan Foundation Commission, 2010).

In addition to producing original work, Sinking Ship also runs the popular puppet and music series Puppet Playlist, which has played to sold-out crowds since 2009, becoming one of New York’s premiere venues for original short-form puppetry.