Founded by former Theater J artistic director Ari Roth in 2015, it performs at the Atlas Performing Arts Center on H Street NE in Washington D.C. Their proclaimed mission is to "make powerful, transformational, socially-relevant art, producing plays by authors on the frontlines of conflict zones and providing audiences with a dynamic new venue for the dramatizing and debating of ideas."

Over 18 years Roth transformed that company "from a rather undistinguished presenter of Jewish-themed work into one of the nation's most daring"[1] theatres.

As a result of his presenting plays which some regarded as looking critically at Israel, particularly his Voices from a Changing Middle East Festival, the relationship between Roth and the DCJCC leadership became strained.

Eight months after they required Roth to downgrade the English-language world premiere of a controversial Israeli play The Admission by Motti Lerner from a 34-performance, full-production run in March to a 16 performance “workshop” run in April 2014, Roth was very publicly fired as the Theater J artistic director in December 2014.

Subtitled (This is Rwanda: The Beginning and the End of the Earth), it featured 14 projections using light and sound effects, and a symbolic set representing the Rwandan countryside.