Kickstarter

Spookfish Theatre Company needs your help!

Our recent project "RELAX! ALICE" was just announced as the New York Times headlining show for the Midtown International Theater Festival going on this summer in NYC. Our show, which enjoyed a successful workshop performance this past fall, will be premiering professionally at the June Havoc Theater with performances held over a span of three weeks beginning this July.

This is where you come in.

Spookfish Theatre Company is a group of young, independent theatre artists who consistently self-produce quality artwork that has gained notoriety in the downtown New York theatre scene. We have been able to produce such works thanks to the donations and support from our family members, friends, colleagues, fellow theatre-lovers and the like. Any donation is graciously accepted and wildly appreciated, and would contribute to a number of costly production aspects involved in creating and presenting a successful play.

All donations will go towards funding everything from costumes, set pieces, and props, to paying our actors and designers, renting rehearsal space, creating postcards and programs, et cetera. 

Please help us reach our $7,000 goal! For more information about the project and how contribution will help, CLICK BELOW!

Spookfish Theatre Company was founded in February 2010 in NYC by theatre artists Ming Peiffer and Kat Yen. The company was recently named Resident Theater Company at Horse Trade Theater Group for their upcoming 14th Annual Season. Our work has been featured in the NY Times, The New York Daily News, Hyphen Magazine, angryasianman.com, as well as various other art and culture blogs across the web.

Ming Peiffer (Playwright/Actress)- Ming Peiffer is the Co-Artistic Director and Resident Playwright of Spookfish Theatre Company, and 1 of 6 playwrights selected to participate as a 2012 LAB Member for NPTC’s Women's Work Project. She is the author of WABI SABI! Not Wasabi, the New York Times pick for Theater for the New City’s "Dream Up Festival" in 2010.

Other works include: Pornography For The People (UPCOMING: Summer 2012 @ Theater for the New City), RELAX! ALICE (Under St. Mark’s, UPCOMING: June Havoc), CEREAL (NPTC), TELLMEYOULOVEME (Colgate University), and Spookfish Theatre Company’s Guerilla Theater Series: "HOMELESS KITTY", an ongoing public puppet show aimed at raising the awareness of homelessness in NYC. She is a co-author of the play, The Privilege of Death: or how everything went from bad to good (Gene Frankel Theater, The Doctorow Center of the Performing Arts). Upcoming plays include: ADVANCE GUARD (developed with MacArthur Fellow Han Ong), Netizens: a trio of plays, and an upcoming solo-show. She has training from both the Stella Adler School of Acting, and the Shanghai Theatre Academy where she lived abroad studying Traditional Peking Opera. Ming studied poetry at The New School and holds a dual degree Bachelor of Arts with Honors in Theater Arts and Mandarin Chinese from Colgate University.

Kat Yen (Director/ Line Producer) Kat Yen  is the Co-Artistic director and Resident Director of Spookfish Theatre Company. She is currently directing RELAX! ALICE for presentation at the 2012 Midtown International Theater Festival, in addition to Pornography for the People as part of the Dream up Festival at Theater for the New City.  Recent NYC directing credits include: RELAX! ALICE (Under St. Mark’s, UPCOMING: June Havoc), WABI SABI! Not Wasabi (Theater for the New City), The Privilege of Death: or how everything went from bad to good (Co-Director, The Gene Frankel Theater) and Anything Goes by Lisa Reinke as part of the Detention series at Primary Stages.. Regional credits: Blasted and Oleanna (Colgate University). Through Spookfish she directed and developed the New York Times pick WABI SABI! Not Wasabi with playwright, Ming Peiffer, as well as Homeless Kitty, a guerilla puppet show performed on NYC subways. A selected member of the LAByrinth Ensemble Workshop, Kat has had the opportunity to study theater at St. Andrews University and has worked on over twenty productions cumulatively during her Colgate University years where she earned her BA in Theater. Since then she has had the pleasure of working with the Public Theater, the McCarter Theater, TeatroStageFest LITFNY, Juneteenth Legacy Theatre, Ripe Time, and Red Bull Theater on various shows in various roles.

The members of Spookfish Theatre Company live, work, and make art in the big apple.