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 There Will Come Soft Rains (FringeNYC, extended at Barrow Street Theater, 2008), Flatland (work-in-progress, EST/Sloan Foundation Commission, 2010), Powerhouse (work-in-progress at FringeNYC, 2010; premiere at New Ohio Theatre, 2014, O’Neill Playwrights Conference Finalist, 2012; New York Times Critics Pick), Ocean (work-in-progress, Mabou Mines Resident Artist Program, 2016), A Hunger Artist (premiere at Connelly Theatre, 2017, co-produced by The Tank as part of their Flint & Tinder series; UK premiere at Edinburgh Fringe, 2017, WINNER - Summhall's Lustrum Award for Excellence).

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.

People have said nice things

“[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

 “Thrilling! ... the creative standard to which companies should be pushing themselves.

Aaron Riccio, Theater Talk's New Theater Corps

“The splendid Sinking Ship Productions… aiming to honor the mad, creative urge to perfectly transmute ideas into art... succeeds beautifully.”

David Cote, Time Out New York

“Highly original.”

—Will Friedwald, Wall Street Journal