Horse Head Theatre Co.'s mission is to re-energize Houston audiences and artists with theatrically designed experiences using local talent and non-traditional methods.

Imagine . . . going to the theatre and encountering an audience with as much passion, aliveness, and emotion as you find at a major sporting event. The Horse Head Theatre Company believes this is the type of crowd that should be inherent in the theatre. We are a company dedicated to a new approach in creating the art of theatre, and in doing so, forming a type of theatre that currently does not exist. In conceiving this attitude, we are not interested in evaluating or comparing our theatrical practices to those of any theatre past or present. Our approach to generating this form of theatre is to look at the production as an organic whole, and to continually evolve a new way of looking at theatre by learning, not how things are being done, but how they might be done.

Imagine . . . a theatrical experience beyond the artistic realm of entertainment . . . where the reenergizing capacity of the ancient Greek theatre at Epidaurus is brought back to life in a new theatre relevant to contemporary culture. The Horse Head Theatre Company productions will offer an artistic experience that facilitates this recharging in all participants (audience, actors, designers, etc.).

Imagine . . . a group of artists doing regional premiers and incorporating local talent to produce it . . . exclusively. We will not be producing any piece of theatre that has ever been done in our region. Our company firmly believes that the artistic pool we have to pull from in Houston is more than ample, and that talent is not dictated by a zip code.

Imagine . . . “creating a theatre that to this point only exists in dreams.” – Robert Edmond Jones

The cornerstone of any great company is its membership. We at Horse Head Theatre hold as one of our core values the idea of collaboration. We believe that the surest path to greatness is one that is not traveled alone. It is through this kind of wholly organic collaboration, one that capitalizes on our unified strengths, that we believe new discoveries are possible.

In order to gain the perspective necessary to facilitate the kind of shift in paradigms of what relevant theatre should be today, we believe it is paramount to recruit talented individuals with meaningful experience in a variety of disciplines. The following is a list of some of the inspiring individuals and companies with which we have had the pleasure of working.: 49th Parallell Productions (Los Angeles), ABC Television, The Ahmanson Theatre (Los Angeles), Edward Albee, The Alley Theatre, American Repertory Ensemble, The Atomic Theatre, Big Bully Films, The Catastrophic Theatre, Classical Theatre Company, Sir Peter Hall, Happy Madison Productions (Los Angeles), The Hudson Theatre (Los Angeles), Houston Shakespeare Festival, Infernal Bridegroom Productions, Mildred’s Umbrella, The Off Center (Austin), Playhouse in the Park (Cincinatti), Kevin Rigdon, Roundhouse (Washigton, D.C.), Rude Mechanicals (Austin), South Coast Repertory, Stages Repertory Theatre, Theatre Royal Bath, Theatre Tribe (Los Angeles), and Unity Theatre (Brenham).

Company Members

Jeremy Choate
Anthony Contello*
Kevin Holden*
Kevin Jones*
Jacey Little
Danny Painter
K.C. Scharnberg*
Matthew Schlief
Drake Simpson*
Jon Thompson*
Frank J. Vela*

*indicates Founding Company Member