MISSION

• To create and present new, innovative performances
• To transgress conventional theatrical forms
• To cultivate new relationships between artists and audiences
• To generate new audiences through outreach to special constituencies
• To nurture diversity of VORTEX artists
• To foster educational programming
• To anchor The VORTEX, a dynamic and cherished home for the arts of the 21st century

HISTORY
VORTEX Repertory Company was incorporated in 1988 to create innovative productions of original work. Since 1990, VORTEX has operated in various performance venues and today owns its own facility in East Austin, providing an intimate venue for the VORTEX Repertory Company as well as other local and national theatre companies, musicians, dancers, and performance artists.

A pioneering leader in Austin's alternative theatre scene, the VORTEX has successfully produced hundreds of original productions since 1989. As a haven for alternative performance, The VORTEX enriches and expands both spectators and artists. VORTEX creates and produces vital, ground-breaking performances that generate thought and discourse on the issues of our time.

Creating and presenting world premieres, cutting-edge, plays, ritual theatre, and opera, VORTEX continues to expand its artistic professionalism, arts education programming, and community outreach.

Awards
The VORTEX has received dozens of awards with hundreds of award nominations for excellence... (View Our Awards Listing)

The VORTEX Repertory Company Ensemble
With resident artistic director Bonnie Cullum leading the way, our ensemble creates living works of art... (Learn More About Our Ensemble Members )

Summer Youth Theatre
Since 1991 the VORTEX's educational programming has provided teenagers tuition-free instruction in all aspects of creating and performing theatre in a fully designed production... (Learn More About Our Summer Youth Program)

Guest Performers
Over the years the VORTEX has become revered around the world as a haven for alternative performance producing original cutting-edge work by nationally-recognized guest artists including: Zen Miller III, Heather Woodbury, Rob Nash, Karen Finley, Pomo Afro Homo, Deborah Hay... (Learn More About Our Guest Performers)

Outreach
We believe ourselves to be part of the larger community and reach out to serve and connect to our world...(Read More)

HIGHLIGHTS

World Premieres of Music Theatre/Opera Troades Vampyress* Sleeping Beauty Pythia Dust* The Music of Erica Zann Despair's Book of Dreams & the Sometimes Radio* Beauty Vultures* Lucifa Faustus* World Premieres of Collaborative Works Trickster Vampyress* Wake for the Dark Poet* Dark Goddess* The Deluge* Wisdom of the Crone Kassandra Metamorpheus New Plays by Austin Playwrights St. Enid and the Black Hand by Molly Rice* My Child, My Child, My Alien Child by Zell Miller III* Ring Rip Rent by Martha Lynn Coon In Chains by Barry Pineo Summer Youth Highlights School for Scandal The Good Woman of Setzuan Conference of the Birds Machinal* Frogs* Moby Dick* Animal Farm Dickens' A Tale of Two Cities*

Cybernetic Operas Elytra* Triskelion* Panoptikon* The Black Blood* X&Y Trilogy* Austin Premieres of New Works A Thought in Three Parts* 4:48 Psychosis Ghost From a Perfect Place* Shopping and Fucking* Fur* The Pitchfork Disney Temptation Beirut The Baltimore Waltz* Steel Kiss* Unidentified Human Remains and the True Nature of Love Jerker Free Will and Wanton Lust Vibrant Productions of Classics Hamlet* Coriolanus Medea* Twelfth Night* Macbeth Julius Caesar King Lear* Romeo & Juliet * Indicates award winning performances.