Committed to nurturing emerging artists and new works, the Performance Lab was created out of the Piven Theatre Workshop training center to provide mentorship opportunities to theatre artists. Beginning with its acclaimed youth ensembles the Performance Project and The Young People’s Company, the Performance Lab has expanded to include multi-artist performance salons, staged readings, and new works festivals.

Past works include:

The Snow Queen
By Hans Christian Andersen
Conceived, adapted and directed by Sarah Bendix and Mikalina Rabinsky

In This Body
Created and directed by Kira Silverstein

Plunder and The Human Capacity
By Jennifer Barclay

The Method
By Jeff McLane

Sacred
By Scott Shallenbarger

Better Land
By Sean Cooper

Traveler to Unimaginable Lands
By Emilie Beck

McMillan and Shapiro and Duet In the Bushes or Laura: An Allegory
By Shira Piven

Back Off, Barkman
By Dick Cusack

Clean House and Eurydice
By Sarah Ruhl

365 Days/365 Plays by Suzan-Lori Parks
Week #14, which included the Chicago premieres of: The Birth Of Abraham Lincoln, We Were Civilized Once, Revolver Lover, Pig Meat Farming Man, You Wouldn’t Want To Take It With You Even If You Could, The President’s Day Sale and The Day After President’s Day Sale.