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Support the Next 25 Years

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This Giving Tuesday, support the creation of impactful new work and the continuation of affordable community spaces for NYC physical theatre artists! 

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Our 25th Season is off to an amazing start and it's thanks to YOU, our beautiful and blessed community. 

 

We have seen the impact of Blessed Unrest: 

  • 25 years of providing a creative home for the artists in our Training Ensemble free of cost 

  • 25 years of curating spaces to gather in support of community 

  • 25 years of creating timely, important, and accessible works for the stage

­In an unstable funding climate, we rely more and more on funding from our community to bring these programs to fruition. Last year, you helped us reach a record breaking $16,000 in donations via Betterworld with more than 110 individual donors. This support means the world to us and allows us to continue building creative ecosystems to serve our community. 

 

This year, we're excited to continue the work and we need your help to do it! No gift is too small, a donation of any size makes a huge impact! 

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Join our grass roots movement towards creation and community by adding your name to our list of supporters. 

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What Your Donation Will Accomplish

$10... funds the printing of one script (something we do a lot of in the new play development world!)

$25... funds one free student ticket to a Blessed Unrest production

$50... funds one hour of rehearsal space

$100... funds one run crew member for a single performance 

$200... funds four hours of rental space, which is enough for one Training Ensemble session (held biweekly, free for all who attend) 

$750... funds one artist's stipend for a developmental workshop production

$1000... funds the stipend for one designer working on our spring production

Announcing Body Salon
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Part of theatre making, part of being alive is asking questions. We’re asking lots of questions as we begin a rebirth of BODY.  Come join us for an engaging evening of community and conversation as we bring bodies into space to see what we can discover. 

Monday, November 17th, 2025

@ 7:00PM
 

ART/NY Studio B

520 8th Avenue, 3rd Floor, New York, NY 10018

(Please note, the building requires an ID for entry.)

 

Pay What You Can!

(Suggested $20)

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Blessed Unrest is a subversive physical theater ensemble that transforms new and classic plays into channels for unexpected alchemy, energetic discomfort, and complex articulation. Through a dedicated and diverse ensemble, international collaborations, and a rigorous training and devising process, we are fueled by the innate human desire to collaborate, the thrill of the impossible challenge, and the instinctual need to rebel. We teach our methods of physical theatre and devising to university students across the country and internationally through workshops and residencies.

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We have performed at New York Theatre Workshop Next Door, Public Theater, P.S. 122, New Ohio Theatre, Baruch Performing Arts Center, Interart Theatre, NYU’s Loewe Theatre, Columbia University, Manhattan School of Music, San Francisco’s Exit Theatre, Emelin Theatre in Westchester, the Provincetown Tennessee Williams Theater Festival and on international tours in Western Europe and the Balkans. We have staged thirty-two full productions in New York (nineteen world premieres), including original devised plays, adaptations of classics, and stagings of established scripts. See our past productions here.

Recently
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Yale Innovation Summit

Artistic Director, Jessica Burr was honored to be a part of the Arts & Innovation: Centering Creators in the Creative Economy panel at the annual Yale Innovation Summit which, for the very first time ever included an Arts Track, helmed by the Midnight Oil Collective. Watch excerpts from the panel below.

“What happens is that the surrounding structures get valued more than the art itself, more than the process. We are supposed to make something from nothing in about three weeks' time. If we are going to be allowed to do our job in society: to see your heart, to heal your soul, to understand the inside of the human condition, we need to be allowed process. We need time, we need resources.”  

watch the full Arts Panel here:
Train with Blessed Unrest
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Audition for our
Training Ensemble 
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Book a Workshop

CONTACT US

info@blessedunrest.org

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Jessica Burr

347-651-6139

Jennifer Allen

804-514-2122

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167 Allen St., Suite 5A
New York, NY 10002

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Blessed Unrest’s work is made possible by New York State Council on the Arts with the support of the Office of the Governor and the New York State Legislature; public funds from the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs in partnership with the City Council; SHS Foundation; Ruth and Hal Launders Charitable Trust; A.R.T./New York Creative Space Grants, supported by Andrew W. Mellon Foundation; and the generosity of individual donors. Blessed Unrest is a member of the Alliance of Resident Theatres/New York, and the Network of Ensemble Theatres.

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