Creation Production

Co-Artistic Directors Matthew Maguire and Susan Mosakowski founded Creation Production Company in New York City in 1977. The company's purpose is to generate innovative forms of theatre through experiments with language, new music theatre, and explorations of political issues, seamlessly integrating the visual arts, music, dance, technology, and ar... chitecture. Creation has produced forty-nine original works. The work has garnered several awards including two OBIE's, a Bessie, and numerous commissions and fellowships from the NEA, NYSCA, the New York Foundation for the Arts, and many foundations, including the Rockefeller and Jerome Foundations. The company's first production, The Seven Deadly Elements, premiered at La MaMa E.T.C. It was based on an adaptation of Max Ernst's collage novel, Une Semaine de Bonté, and explored collage as a technique for contemporary performance. The fusion of visual arts and theatre continued in Untitled (The Dark Ages Flat Out), a play set in a landscape of objects and boxes inspired by the work of Joseph Cornell, presented by the National Museum of the Smithsonian Institution in Washington. Architecture and performance soon followed, merging in The Rotary Notary and His Hot Plate, an adaptation of Marcel Duchamp's Large Glass-in collaboration with architects Elizabeth Diller and Ricardo Scofidio-presented by the Philadelphia Museum of Art, and in such site-specific works as the Bessie Award winning The Memory Theatre of Giulio Camillo in the Anchorage of the Brooklyn Bridge. Works for the moving image led to choreographic explorations set within the video-generated futuristic landscapes of White/Black and The Bachelor Machine. Excursions into opera took place at Pepsico Summerfare where the company deconstructed Mozart's Don Giovanni, and into chaos theory for the sci-fi opera, Chaos, presented at The Kitchen. New works have also been generated by reinventing classics, such as The Inferno adapted from Dante, The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari from the film classic of Robert Weine, ...Read More