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Thinkery & Verse seek to perform classically inspired, politically aware plays that challenge us to be empowered, globally-oriented citizens with a keen awareness of the high stakes of modern life. While our primary mission is to create new plays, one of our key creative methods is to perform our plays in repertory with classic works, thereby challenging our writers and actors to achieve new heights of creativity and aesthetics.
Thinkery & Verse LLC is a sponsored project of Fractured Atlas, a non-profit arts service organization. Contributions for the charitable purposes of Thinkery & Verse must be made payable to Fractured Atlas only and are tax-deductible to the extent permitted by law. To learn more about Fractured Altas, or to make a donation in support of Thinkery & Verse, please visit their website.
Thinkery & Verse LLC is a sponsored project of Fractured Atlas, a non-profit arts service organization. Contributions for the charitable purposes of Thinkery & Verse must be made payable to Fractured Atlas only and are tax-deductible to the extent permitted by law. To learn more about Fractured Altas, or to make a donation in support of Thinkery & Verse, please visit their website.
About the Co-Artistic Directors
After first establishing herself as an artist in Texas, Karen Eliza Alvarado completed her training through the Rutgers Mason Gross MFA Acting program. Back in Austin, her production of Shakespeare's "Titus Andronicus" was named one of the top-ten plays of the season in The Austin Chronicle, and while at Rutgers Mason Gross she earned the Phillip J. Levin scholarship. Her direction of "Bride of the Gulf" at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe led to four-star reviews from The Scotsman and The List UK.
J. M. Meyer works as a playwright-performer in Austin and New York. His work as a playwright and an actor has been featured in the BBC Online, Austin Chronicle, The Austin American-Statesman, KUT radio, and Humanities Magazine.
His stage play "American Volunteers" won the 2010 Mitchell Award at the University of Texas, and subsequently made the long-list for the Dylan Thomas Prize in the United Kingdom. He performed at the White House thanks to Aquila Theatre's ongoing outreach program, "Ancient Greeks/Modern Lives." His plays have also received support from The Great Plains Theatre Conference, the Cohen New Works Festival, Austin Scriptworks, University Co-Op, Fort Pointe Theatre Channel, and Frontera Fest.
In 2015 he performed with the Veteran Artist Project at the Lincoln Center Home Show. In 2016 he performed off-Broadway in Sophocles' Philoctetes with Aquila Theatre. In 2017 he served as a playwright-performer in Aquila Theatre's national tour and off-Broadway show, Our Trojan War. In the spring of 2016 he began a six-month fellowship with BEDLAM theatre thanks to the Mission Continues project. Much of John's artistry draws on his work in conflict zones including Afghanistan, Iraq, Guatemala, Mexico, and (increasingly) the United States.
His stage play "American Volunteers" won the 2010 Mitchell Award at the University of Texas, and subsequently made the long-list for the Dylan Thomas Prize in the United Kingdom. He performed at the White House thanks to Aquila Theatre's ongoing outreach program, "Ancient Greeks/Modern Lives." His plays have also received support from The Great Plains Theatre Conference, the Cohen New Works Festival, Austin Scriptworks, University Co-Op, Fort Pointe Theatre Channel, and Frontera Fest.
In 2015 he performed with the Veteran Artist Project at the Lincoln Center Home Show. In 2016 he performed off-Broadway in Sophocles' Philoctetes with Aquila Theatre. In 2017 he served as a playwright-performer in Aquila Theatre's national tour and off-Broadway show, Our Trojan War. In the spring of 2016 he began a six-month fellowship with BEDLAM theatre thanks to the Mission Continues project. Much of John's artistry draws on his work in conflict zones including Afghanistan, Iraq, Guatemala, Mexico, and (increasingly) the United States.