About Breaking String
Breaking String Theater is a professional theater company in Austin, TX that presents drama important to Russian history and exposes Austin audiences developing Russian theater. We seek to connect people across time and culture.
Our mission is to create excellent productions of Russian traditional and avant-garde plays, provide artists with a creative, respectful and professional work environment, and be a thread in the rope linking Russian and American theater communities via collaboration with Russian theater artists through our partnerships with the Center for International Theatre Development’s Philip Arnoult, and Moscow-based critic/translator John Freedman.
The name of our company derives from a mysterious stage direction from Act II of Chekhov’s The Cherry Orchard:
Suddenly, as if from the sky, the sound of a breaking string, dying away, forlorn.
Breaking String is proud to be a sponsored project of the Austin Creative Alliance, a 501(c)-3 non-profit organization serving Austin's arts community.
Breaking String is very grateful to Tim Thomas for his wealth of donated web development expertise.
Breaking String was awarded a contract from the Austin Cultural Arts Committee in 2010, In its first year of eligibility.
Company
- Graham Schmidt (co-Producing Artistic Director)
- Liz Fisher (co-Producing Artistic Director)
- Robert Matney (co-Producing Artistic Director)
- Matt Radford (co-Producing Artistic Director)
Creative Consultants
- John Freedman
- Philip Arnoult
- Dr. James Loehlin
- Dr. Paul Woodruff
Web Consultant
- Tim Thomas
Sponsors and Supporters
- The City of Austin Cultural Arts Committee
- Eponymous Garden
- Sasha's Gourmet Russian Market
- Will Hollis Photography
- nthWORD Magazine
- The University of Texas at Austin Department of Slavic and Eurasian Studies
- The University of Texas at Austin Department of English
- The University of Texas at Austin Program in Comparative Literature
- Tom and Jan Schmidt
- Dr. Paul Woodruff
