mission
mind dream theater is a brand-new DIY “property-less” audio theater that intends to produce brand new experimental audio plays for the most accessible of venues: our mind.
We are always on our phones and always in our minds.
What is to say either can’t be a venue?
mind dream theater intends to be an accessible and affordable path for experimental theater artists and writers to create low-stakes work that is high-imagination.
history
mind dream theater began in 2023 with its first production, Arrow of Time, an audio play turned digital-film experiment, which premiered online during The Exponential Festival. Listen here. Arrow of Time went on to be accepted in the 2024 New York City Indie Theater Film Festival. Script available for purchase from 1319 Press
In 2024, we released Jerrod Jordahl’s Monologues for Nobody, to an over-capacity release event. Listen here. The response was overwhelming, both to the beauty of the piece and the experience of communally listening together.
Now, mind dream theater is working on the development of a new yearly flagship show that will showcase the experimental writing of theater artists in an episodic format.
contact
You can email us at minddreamtheater@gmail.com
Read our blog on our Substack
See our latest productions on Youtube
and support / donate to our Patreon (which links to our podcast)
the team
Allyson Dwyer
artistic director & founder
Allyson is a theater artist from New Jersey who creates work about the Internet, communication, alienation, systems and time. Recent plays include u are the dream (Exponential Festival, The Brick, Most Unwanted & mind dream theater), Arrow of Time (1319 Press, Exponential Festival, mind dream theater, NYC Indie Theater Film Festival, Young-Howze Theatre Journal Awards Best Audio Production), Extraordinary Machine (EST/Sloan), Gumshoe (Arthouse), Plato’s Gooncave (?! New Works at The Brick). She is an alum of Clubbed Thumb ECWG, Soundlab at The Brick, The Road’s UC4, The Alcove at The Lucille Lortel and a current member of Arthouse Inkubator. Say hello: allysondwyer.com
Jerrod Jordahl
co-artistic director
Jerrod Jordahl is a Brooklyn-based playwright. Recent works include Examples of God Personally Killing People (Garret Theater, Enough with the Dog Days Festival), Monologues for Nobody (mind dream theater), Taking Care of Animals (21ten Theater), death as repetition (The Brick, ?!:New Works). MFA in Playwriting, The New School of Drama, 2020. jerrodjordahl.com
Devon Wade Granmo
advisory team, theme song creator
Devon Wade Granmo is a theater artist and administrator living and working in Brooklyn. He was the Box Office & Office Operations Manager at The Brick from 2021-2023, the Facilities and Rentals Manager at La MaMa Experimental Theatre Club from 2023-2024, and has been the Senior Manager of Rentals at BAM (Brooklyn Academy of Music) since 2024. In addition to his work in Non-Profit Administration, he is a writer, performer, producer and production manager who frequently collaborates with Stephen Bron, Title:Point, Object Collection, No Exit Theater Collective, and mind dream theater. devonwadegranmo.com
Theresa Buchheister
advisory team
Theresa Buchheister (they/them) is an artistic director, curator, venue operator, theater maker (writer, director, performer, producer, designer) and voiceover artist (director, engineer, performer, researcher and teacher). Theresa was in NY from 2004-2024 and during that time founded a few projects: Title:Point (an experimental theater company), The Exponential Festival (a Brooklyn-based experimental art festival that happens every January), Vital Joint (a weird basement venue focused on alt comedy, music and durational performance), ?!:New Works (a short form festival with different split bills every night for as many nights as possible) and SalOn! (a gathering of theater people, dancers, poets, musicians, chefs, scientists, doctors, activists, lawyers, freaks and other). They also received an OBIE for their time as artistic director of The Brick Theater and Brick Aux, was a collective member of DIY venue Silent Barn, was a frequent collaborator of Jeff Stark, Night Market and Secret Parks, performed in Richard Foreman's The Gods are Pounding My Head aka Lumberjack Messiah, was a manager at a bunch of bookstores (The Strand, The Drama Book Shop, Housing Works, The Unoppressive Non-Imperialist Bargain Book Shop) and has directed lots of audiobooks, cartoons and podcasts (How Music Works, Pokemon and The Last Days of Cabrini Green). Currently, they are living in Lawrence, KS teaching at The University of Kansas, directing independent projects in weird locations, managing www.staffpicks.fun and exploring new kinds of collaboration. www.theresabuchheister.com and www.titlepoint.org
Kegan Zema
resident recording engineer
Kegan Zema is a producer, audio engineer, and musician. He makes podcasts, writes songs, and plays softball. He lives in Brooklyn with his wife and cat.
Hannah Birch-Carl
resident sound designer
Hannah Birch-Carl is a Brooklyn-based multimedia experimental artist and theater-maker whose work is informed by her experiences with visual phenomena, including Visual Snow Syndrome, palinopsia, synesthesia, and pareidolia. Beginning her career in the San Francisco Bay Area, she earned a B.A. in Drama from SF State University and has worked as a professional sound designer for numerous theaters in the San Francisco bay area as well as New York City since 2011. Hannah creates intricate landscapes in her paintings and sound design, and sculpts fantastical figurines from found objects and recycled materials, exploring themes like mental illness and environmentalism with a wry sense of humor.
Lauren Serafica
branding & marketing
Lauren is a multidisciplinary designer based in Brooklyn whose work spans immersive media, projection, graphic and website design. She cares deeply about the transformation of art institutions as places of both visual experimentation and accessibility. Her work has been featured at Brooklyn Art Haus, ANT Fest, Chain Theater, Exponential Festival, Gestating Baby, LPAC’s Rough Draft Festival, and has been supported by institutions such as Kitchen Sink Theatre Company, Ars Nova, Synecdoche Works, and The Brick. Her graphic design work has also been featured by GDUSA and the DesignPhiladelphia Festival in 2021. laurenseraficadesign.com
Teri Madonna
voice of mind dream theater
Teri Madonna is a performer, musician, theater maker, sound artist, and devoted fan of her friends and community in the New York experimental theater scene.