Transport Group Theatre Company

MISSION & HISTORY

Transport Group is a New York-based, off-Broadway theatre company that stages new works and radically-reimagined revivals by American writers.

Since 2001, Transport Group has crafted risk-taking, thoughtful, acclaimed productions of plays and musicals that widen the lens on our American experience. By centering unlikely protagonists, embracing nontraditional casting, and incorporating daring design, we create unexpected theatrical experiences that allow audiences and artists to collaboratively explore what we mean by an “American identity.” Our work subverts expectations and challenges narrative conventions by creating space for new American perspectives that deepen our shared capacity for empathy and understanding.

Transport Group’s work has been called “storytelling at its purest” by The New York Times, “at once faithful and irreverent.” In the two decades since the company was founded by Artistic Director Jack Cummings III and Robyn Hussa, we have produced thirty-three shows: thirteen new works, seventeen revivals, three New York premieres, and six commissioned works. Our New York and world premieres have all had a continued life beyond their initial productions, and Transport Group has received The New York Drama Critics’ Circle Award, 9 Obie Awards, 3 Drama Desk Awards including a Special Drama Desk Award “for its breadth of vision and its presentation of challenging productions,” an Outer Critics Circle Award, 3 Off-Broadway Alliance Awards, and a Dramatists Guild Award. In addition, our productions have received 46 Drama Desk Award nominations, 8 Drama League Award nominations, 4 Lucille Lortel Award nominations, 6 Outer Critics Circle Award nominations, 9 American Theatre Wing Design Award nominations, 9 Off-Broadway Alliance Award nominations, 4 Audelco Award nominations, and a Tony Award nomination.

HOW WE WORK

Transport Group provides a home for ground-up, extensive development processes for new works and revivals alike that put artistic exploration at the forefront. Our development approach is customized for each project to ensure that we are organically forging a production that only could have emerged from the voices and imaginations of the artists – performers, writers, designers, musicians – in the room. 

We often don’t know where a new work is going at the outset, but we commit fully to taking the journey from commission to production. This commitment, alongside the paid time and resources we provide throughout the development process, offers Transport Group artists the space, means, and stability necessary to fully embrace risk and experimentation. This level of development support is especially unique for musicals: while most of these programs become homogenized as they are put through the regional/commercial pipeline, we offer a customized development process. We are proud to be a rare organization that supports the full life of a new musical, from commission through development to premiere, allowing a uniquely American voice to emerge.