THE SECRET SHARER is a touring company of four performers. In the months leading up to performance, we will spend one week meeting with local community groups holding storycircles and other community based activities. Our goal is to avoid the first contact with our primary audience being transactional through a ticket sale. We have found, through this process, that each performance is 30-50% new audience members for venues.

​

THE SECRET SHARER requires a flexible space with no risers or stage, and with the audience on the same level as the performance (or with the audience and performance on the stage itself). The audience defines the perimeter of the playing area. We have created a flexible production that can happen in a fully outfitted theatre with theatrical lighting, projections, and sound elements, as well as a less technical version that can happen in function halls, community spaces, retrofitted spaces, and outdoors with minimal design elements in place.

​

For a full technical rider, please contact us at info@dnaworks.org
​

​

​

With the community storycircles we attempt to balance artist and audience voices by creating a space for community members to learn more about one another. In THE SECRET SHARER, we explore a deeper level of engagement—how audiences can co-create the performance with us, with their stories woven through the event in real time, co-authoring the performed text in a different way each performance. The co-witnessing of stories offers an opportunity to deepen inter-/intra-group understanding. In service of our mission to promote dialogue and healing through the arts, we have led workshops around the world—with as many as one hundred participants, sometimes in languages we do not speak—during which people share openly. We understand how to create a space of respectful listening and sharing. With THE SECRET SHARER, we marry our workshop and performance techniques.