It was founded in 2012 by Artistic Director Jonathan Solari, Jeff Strabone, and Sarah Wolff.
Despite being one of the first crowdfunding campaigns to attempt to raise money to purchase a building,[6] the group failed to reach its goal.
[9] On January 9, 2014, the group produced its first full production, Edward Albee's The Death of Bessie Smith in Interfaith Medical Center, a Bed-Stuy hospital that was scheduled to close on the play's final performance.
[10] The production, which was directed by the company's Artistic Director Jonathan Solari, incorporated post-show conversations with City Council members, Public Advocate Letitia James, U.S. Rep. Hakeem Jeffries, New York state senators, state assembly members, and activist artists like Harry Belafonte.
[12] The group was invited by Harvard University to build a new Turkish production of Anton Chekhov's The Cherry Orchard in the Yedikule region of Istanbul.