Working Man's Clothes

Working Man's Clothes Productions is a New York City theater company that was founded in January 2005.

The company name was taken from a line of Ralph Waldo Emerson, "Common sense is genius dressed in working man's clothes.

The company is a member of OOBCOM, a community of Off-Off Broadway Theatre Artists.

The company is well known for its developmental series[citation needed], which has workshopped staged readings of numerous plays including Boom Vang by Larry Pontius, Breath and Grandma's Box, The Life of Mary Berry, Double Hernia by Mark Charney, Handicapping by James McClindon, 37 Stones by Mark Charney, Night by David Carr-Berry, The Woodpecker by Samuel Brett Williams, "The Authorities" by Andrew Rosendorf, Heartless by Eric Sanders, "She Like Girls" by Chisa Hutchinson.

[11] In May 2007 the company launched its Lost Works Series with the New York City premiere of Anthony Neilson's Penetrator.