The FURY Factory is a festival of ensemble and devised theater, which I founded under the umbrella of foolsFURY in 2005. Every other year, the FURY Factory brings cutting-edge work from around the country to Bay Area audiences, and gives participants opportunities for artistic exchange and cross-pollination through performances, structured conversations, panels, and educational workshops. The FURY Factory serves as a West Coast hub for the national ensemble theater movement. Since its inception we have presented over 150 works by some 120 companies. Many of these are excellent productions that Bay Area audiences wouldn't otherwise experience.
The FURY Factory fills a critical role in the cultural ecosystem of the Bay Area. We offer the opportunity for audiences to see innovative artists whose work has outgrown the fringe festival circuit, but who are not yet well-known or well-resourced enough to appear at major presenting houses such as Yerba Buena or CalPerformances. This middle ground is rich with visionary artists in the primes of their careers.
FURY Factory is one of the few festivals nationwide to place a major emphasis on works in progress. The standard staged reading often does not help ensemble created pieces, in which the text and the physical, visual, and auditory aspects of the artwork are created in concert. Our format allows companies to show short sections of fully embodied work, to experiment and receive audience feedback. This promotes and facilitates the risk-taking necessary for a healthy creative process. The festival has become a generative hothouse, birthing dozens of works that would not otherwise exist.
The FURY Factory fills a critical role in the cultural ecosystem of the Bay Area. We offer the opportunity for audiences to see innovative artists whose work has outgrown the fringe festival circuit, but who are not yet well-known or well-resourced enough to appear at major presenting houses such as Yerba Buena or CalPerformances. This middle ground is rich with visionary artists in the primes of their careers.
FURY Factory is one of the few festivals nationwide to place a major emphasis on works in progress. The standard staged reading often does not help ensemble created pieces, in which the text and the physical, visual, and auditory aspects of the artwork are created in concert. Our format allows companies to show short sections of fully embodied work, to experiment and receive audience feedback. This promotes and facilitates the risk-taking necessary for a healthy creative process. The festival has become a generative hothouse, birthing dozens of works that would not otherwise exist.