Control Group is thrilled to announce receipt of a grant from the Performing Arts Readiness project and LYRASIS with support from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation! This award will support a yearlong process of developing an Intersectional Emergency & Accessibility Plan for our organization, with a focus on immersive performance in unconventional spaces.

The name 'control group' is fraught with ironies: A nod to our goals of research and experimentation, to our desire to connect scientific and artistic processes, to a proposal that perhaps we are the uninflected ones, the lab rats receiving sugar pills instead of untested experimental compounds.

There’s a lot of listening, participating, and self-examination needed right now. There are also things that I think every American needs to say out loud. We stand firmly and humbly with the peaceful protesters and their call for foundational changes to how we as a community and a country live out our values and work toward a more just society.