Transversal Theater Company

The Transversal Theater Company (TTC) is a nonprofit organization of American and European artists based in Amsterdam.

Founded in 2003 by Bryan Reynolds, Lonnie Alcaraz, Douglas-Scott Goheen, and a number of other artists, TTC is an experimental theater company known for creating original performance works that explore charged social, cultural, conceptual, and political realities of today through the combined social-cognitive theory, performance aesthetics, and research methodology known as Transversal Poetics.

[7][8][9] TTC's core members and contributing artists have included Robert Cohen,[10][11] Gary Busby, Lonnie Alcaraz,[12] Niels Horeman, David Backovsky, Sky Reynolds, Shira Wolfe,[13] Laila Burane, Christopher Marshall, Saskia Polderman, Luke Cantarella, Alan Terricciano, Christa Mathis, Kayla Emerson, Karyn Lawrence,[14] Amanda McRaven, Michael Hooker,[15] Stan Limburg, Henk Danner, Matthias Quadekker, Babette Holtmann, Mathieu van den Berk, Erik Lint, Alex Hoffman, Sam Kolodezh, Jon McKenzie, Saviana Stănescu,[16] Gosia Lorenz, Emilia Simeonov, Vinnie Olivieri,[17] Sammie Dasia Moore, Jacob Dovan Nguyen, Richard Brestoff, Bob Boross,[18] Oscar Seip,[19] Jessica Dunn, James Intriligator, Jesús López Vargas,[20] and Merle DeWitt III.

It takes as its premise that vulnerabilities, surrenders, and slippages can be more productive than control, domination, and regulation.

Actors, sets, props, narratives, objects, histories, media, things, ideas, and experiences all form an interrelational dynamism.