SPONSORED BY NOBODY is a Brooklyn-based theatre company committed to developing original work that is relevant to contemporary America. Founded in 2005, SBN has established a reputation in New York and Europe for presenting abrasive, engaging theatre while refusing to relinquish the idea of art as a catalyst for social change. While rooted in theatre, SBN incorporates multiple disciplines in our work -- borrowing from dance, film, music and installation art -- while employing both found-texts and original writing. SBN remains committed to a collaborative development process and operates with a sense of urgency on each project undertaken as a company. The goal of maintaining a sense of relevance and immediacy to our contemporary reality remains the foundation to the company’s approach.

SPONSORED BY NOBODY have since developed seven original works of theatre -- Behind The Bullseye -- Compression of a Casualty -- FOX(y) FRIENDS -- The Position -- not from canada -- The Amputated Years -- and -- W.M.D. (just the low points). Our inaugural work The Position received three productions in New York City and Massachusetts -- including the smash hit at Soho Think Tank’s ICE FACTORY ’05 festival at the Ohio Theatre. The complete text of The Position was published in the New York anthology Plays and Playwrights 2006 and The Best Men’s Stages Monologues 2006. SPONSORED BY NOBODY has presented work in New York at the original Collective Unconscious; BAX/Brooklyn Arts Exchange; 3LD Technology Center; HERE; the Brick Theater; the Ontological Theater; the New York International Fringe Festival and a second appearance at Soho Think Tank’s ICE FACTORY ’08 festival at the Ohio Theatre.

SPONSORED BY NOBODY presented two world premieres on two different continents in 2009. The first was the long-awaited world premiere of W.M.D. (just the low points) at the international arts festival -- The Game Is Up! “How to Save the World in 10 Days” -- at the Vooruit Arts Center in Ghent, Belgium on March 4-5, 2009. The second was Behind The Bullseye at the Ontological Theater for a successful two-week run in July. Developed under a Swing Space grant from the Lower Manhattan Cultural Council and an INCUBATOR residency, Behind The Bullseye fuses elements of journalism, film and installation art to examine the shopping habits of Brooklyn residents from diverse ethnic and class backgrounds.

In addition to touring their previous work, SPONSORED BY NOBODY have been invited back to Belgium to present the world premiere of their next major work -- ATM or this is [not] new york -- in November 2010 at the Monty Arts Center (Antwerp). Development of ATM will continue in New York with the support of the 2010 Mabou Mines/Suite Resident Artist program; 2010 Artist-in-Residence at Robert Wilson’s Watermill Center; and a 2010 Residency @ Chashama. ATM or this is [not] new york is a new play for interdisciplinary theater that uses New Yorkers’ interactions with the city’s homeless population as a means to investigate shifting demographics and values under the ongoing financial crisis.

SPONSORED BY NOBODY has been supported by The MacDowell Colony; the Puffin Foundation; the Foundation for Contemporary Arts; the Lower Manhattan Cultural Council; the New York Foundation for the Arts; the East End Arts Council; the Ontological INCUBATOR program; a 2009 USArtists Award from the Mid-Atlantic Arts Foundation; and a 2007 Performance Development Award from Chashama and the National Endowment for the Arts. The company regularly collaborates with international artists from Canada, Sweden, Belgium, Romania and Iraq across a wide spectrum of artistic disciplines.

SPONSORED BY NOBODY plans to build upon our previous success and continue to develop original, abrasive work in New York and Europe. The company remains under the guidance of Artistic Director, Kevin Doyle; designers Brendan Regimbal, Garret Savage and Patrick Clancy; actors Laura Adams, Mike Carlsen, Mayra Castro, Keith Downing, Josh Edelmann, Sauda Jackson, Scott Miller, Kate Moran, Paul Newport, Sean O’Hagan, Hannah Louise Poston, and Sarah Stephens; and managers Vicki Thomson (U.K.) and Wilson McGrory (USA).