July 7th and 8th & 10th
July 7th and 8th & 10th
What happens when shared experiences disappear?
When digital interactions replace face-to-face connection, what is lost?
What happens when we no longer gather to witness, to feel, to share?
Join us to witness powerful, short plays that explore the fragile, irreplaceable power of human interaction —and why our community needs it now more than ever. This summer, ITC's brain-based collective, a group of local artists, will produce a series of short plays that examines the issues of isolation and disconnections that comes in the digital world we now inhabit.
Our collective members will develop, rehearse, and perform these works, using our brain-based methodology to bring characters and stories to life in ways that feel raw, human, and utterly real.
Dates and times: TBA
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More than an acting class. More than a workshop. This is an artistic movement. Irvine Theater Company’s Brain-Based Collective is a community of actors, writers, and directors working together under a shared philosophy—one rooted in neuroscience, embodied cognition, and the mechanics of human behavior. This isn’t about memorizing lines or replicating performances. It’s about understanding how the brain naturally absorbs identity, memory, and emotion to create authentic characters and stories. It’s about training smarter, not harder, and working with a team of like-minded artists who want to innovate, challenge themselves, and build something bigger than a single production.
The Brain-Based Collective exists to: Create a shared artistic language rooted in cognitive science and storytelling psychology. Provide a collaborative environment where actors, writers, and directors grow together. Revolutionize the craft of acting and storytelling by integrating a brain-based approach to performance. Develop and showcase original works, with a special focus on our annual summer festival.
We are looking for actors, writers, and directors who are: Passionate about performance and storytelling.
Curious about the intersection of art and science.
Excited to collaborate within a dedicated creative ensemble.
Ready to push boundaries and create something truly original.
Membership in the collective means being part of an ongoing, evolving artistic community. We meet weekly for training, rehearsals, and project development. Members will have access to:
MISSION: To preserve the art, and evolve the experience–by building the Theater of Tomorrow, a state of the art 500-seat venue equipped with technology that will revolutionize the way we tell stories moving forward.
ITC enhances the excitement of live performance with spectacular technology that immerses the audience in the world of the story. The engine for our creativity is an innovative brain-based approach to the dramatic arts developed by incorporating contemporary knowledge from the cognitive sciences into the art of storytelling.
This one-of-a-kind theatrical canvas facilitates innovative story-telling, including Transmedia Storytelling. Using 280 degree virtual sets that incorporate filmic story techniques, and components of the gaming experience, we seek to attract high profile creative partners from the entertainment industry. We look to partner with master storytellers and creative innovators such as Netflix, Disney, Blizzard Entertainment, Pixar, and others.
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Imagine being fully surrounded by stunning visuals that effortlessly shift from one scene to the next.
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