the mailbox

The Mailbox

Tiny Box Theater

with Ya Chin Chang, Sarah Murphy, Joy Tomasko & David Lamoureux

mail experience march 1-april 9


SECOND RUN ANNOUNCED!

tickets on sale april 12-may 17

mail experience may 17-jun 6

What happens when all of the mailboxes in the world disappear overnight?

more about the project

Tiny Box Theater and Ya Chin Chang in collaboration with David Lamoureux present The Mailbox, an experience that unfolds through original illustrations, audio, video (with closed captioning), text-based puzzles, and branching story interactives. Join the Worldwide Wildlife Investigative Firm (WWIF) with Lynx, Hound, Chameleon, and Raccoon to embark on your first case. When all of the mailboxes in the world disappear overnight, you are tasked with tracking the truth. When you go digging, swimming, and climbing, you may uncover more than one mystery at work...


For adults (& youth ages 13+)


The Mailbox features the vocal talents of Jen Anaya, Arsène DeLay, Nico Grelli, Matthew Leonhart, David Lamoureux, Sarah Murphy, Victor Santos. Click here for full bios.


details for participation

When to Join:

Sign up and provide your mailing address by May 14th

What You’ll Need:

The experience requires a mailing address (residential, business, or PO Box), an email address, and internet access. 

 

Things To Do:

After signing up, please read and respond to your ticket confirmation email for details. In it is a questionnaire that will collect and confirm your preferred contact information with Tiny Box Theater. 


What Will Happen:

You will receive a packet from Tiny Box Theater by snail mail. Prompts inside the packet and posted online will direct you to interact with the materials, complete tasks, upload responses, and visit the website to continue the story. Packets will be mailed on May 17th from New York and the first chapter will launch that week. You can engage with as much or as little of the content as you wish, when you wish. The experience “concludes” June 6 with website access ending on June 30.


the
creative team

Tiny Box Theater creates hybrids of pop-up book, diorama, radio play, toy theater, and interactive live performance asking audiences to reimagine theatricality in small moments. The Tiny Box repertoire includes eleven short-form pieces, two full-length works, and one interactive workshop. Tiny Box Theater has performed at NYC, Boston, and Toronto Figment Festivals, Luna Stage, LIC Arts Open, Madison Square Park, Montclair Design Week, Jewelry City Steampunk Festival, So-fi Festival, and the Edinburgh Fringe Festival. TBT was a 2019 recipient of a Queens Council on the Arts grant, and a 2020 participant in the Orchard Project’s Liveness Lab. www.tinyboxtheater.com
Ya Chin Chang (張雅琹) is a visual artist whose work is inspired by everyday objects and moments, incorporating whimsy and nostalgia. Her oil paintings, graphite drawings, and mixed media sculptures are anchored in the coupling of concept and craft. As a child in Hong Kong, Ya Chin could be found talking to herself while drawing on the back of scrap paper, narrating the stories of her drawings. She put sketching on the back burner until 2013 when she rediscovered art. She attended academies in Florence, Paris and London, before arriving at Grand Central Atelier in NYC. @yachinlearnstoart & @whats.she.up.to

David Lamoureux is a music and theatre artist originally from Los Angeles. Notable collaborations include Gwen Stefani, Yoshiki, Augustana, Dave Eggar, Greg Holden, The Damnwells, Katie Costello, Vanessa Carlton, Conrad Sewell, Jeff Chang, Rachel Bloom, Denman Theatre & Dance Co, Tiny Box Theater, Accidental Jacket Productions. Producer of the Reiner Reading Series ’12-’17 (LA Drama Critics Circle Joel Hirschhorn Award for Outstanding Achievement in Musical Theatre). Creator of David & The Bombshells. English-language lyricist of Gerard Presgurvic’s Autant en emporte le vent. Composer of Tiny Box Theater’s The House We Never Lived In and Denman Theatre and Dance Co’s The Donner Party.
http://davidlamoureuxcreative.com/
Sarah Murphy
is co-director of Tiny Box Theater with whom she has participated as dramaturg, story collaborator, voice artist, performer, and tiny box operator. Sarah also works as a school librarian and teacher of literature and theatre. She's written a number of short plays for very young actors, and from 2014-2018 Sarah directed the middle school theatre program and created “Shakespeare Camp” at the Browning School in New York. She currently teaches middle and upper school English at Professional Children’s School. Sarah has an MA in English, a Masters in Library and Information Science, and a BA in Theatre Arts. 

Joy Tomasko is co-director, primary script writer, and box designer/operator with Tiny Box Theater. As a playwright, her works have been performed in the United States, Cuba, and Germany. Joy has scripted media interactives, videos, and experiences for Batwin + Robin Productions for cultural institutions across the country. Residencies and fellowships have included the Playwrights Center’s Jerome Fellowship, WP Theater/NYSCA residency, LaGuardia Performing Arts Center Lab, AROHO, and the MacDowell Colony. Joy is an affiliated artist with Denman Theatre and Dance, Theatre 167, and the Playwrights Center. 2019 Queens Council on the Arts grant recipient. MFA: CalArts
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