THE MAILBOX

Tiny Box Theater (NYC) and visual artist Ya Chin Chang (Hong Kong) in collaboration with David Lamoureux present The Mailbox, an experience that unfolds through theatrical text, original illustrations, audio, video (with closed captioning), text-based puzzles, and branching story interactives. Join the Worldwide Wildlife Investigative Firm (WWIF) with Lynx, Hound, Chameleon, and Raccoon to embark on your first case. When all of the mailboxes in the world disappear overnight, you are tasked with tracking the truth. When you go digging, swimming, and climbing, you may uncover more than one mystery at work...
For adults (& youth ages 13+)

Tiny Box Theater is proud to partner with Post Theatrical: A National Wave of Plays by Mail to present The Mailbox.

When to Join:

Sign up and provide your mailing address by May 17th

What You’ll Need:

The experience requires a mailing address (residential, business, or PO Box), an email address, and internet access. 

Things To Do:

After signing up, please read and respond to your ticket confirmation email for details. In it is a questionnaire that will collect and confirm your preferred contact information with Tiny Box Theater. 

What Will Happen:

You will receive a packet from Tiny Box Theater by snail mail. Prompts inside the packet and posted online will direct you to interact with the materials, complete tasks, upload responses, and visit the website to continue the story. Packets will be mailed the week of May 17th from New York and the first chapter will launch that week. You can engage with as much or as little of the content as you wish, when you wish. Website access ends on June 30.

The Mailbox

Tiny Box Theater (NYC) and visual artist Ya Chin Chang (Hong Kong) in collaboration with David Lamoureux present The Mailbox, an experience that unfolds through original illustrations, audio, video (with closed captioning), text-based puzzles, and branching story interactives. Join the Worldwide Wildlife Investigative Firm (WWIF) with Lynx, Hound, Chameleon, and Raccoon to embark on your first case. When all of the mailboxes in the world disappear overnight, you are tasked with tracking the truth. When you go digging, swimming, and climbing, you may uncover more than one mystery at work...
For adults (& youth ages 13+)

Tiny Box Theater is proud to partner with Post Theatrical: A National Wave of Plays by Mail to present The Mailbox.

Your Role

Tiny Box Theater’s The Mailbox is an experience that unfolds over the course of a month and requires a physical mailbox (residential, business, or PO Box) and a virtual inbox (email) to receive materials and messages. Participants will also need internet access to view and engage with online content and send/upload responses to prompts.
Tickets are on sale February 1-22, 2021. After purchasing a ticket, participants will receive a short questionnaire by email that they must complete in order to begin the experience. On March 1st Tiny Box Theater will send materials via USPS to all ticket buyers. Participants need to open within 24 hours of receipt to embark on the adventure. Prompts will direct participants to complete tasks, upload responses, and visit websites to continue the story. Details on accessing the finale online finale watch party on April 9th will be provided as the date approaches. The Mailbox is open to participants around the world.
The Mailbox was developed, in part, with the support of The Orchard Project.

Participate

Sales have now ended for the March 2021 experience. If you purchased a ticket, please visit the online hub.

About the Artist

Ya Chin Chang (張雅琹) is a visual artist inspired by everyday objects and moments, her work can be intricate or simple, and is usually whimsical with some nostalgia. Whether it is an oil painting, graphite drawing, or mixed media sculpture, she anchors her work in the coupling of concept and craft.

Born and raised in Hong Kong, as a child Ya Chin could be found talking to herself while drawing on the back of scrap paper, narrating the stories of her drawings. School and “growing up” put sketching on the back burner until 2013 where she rediscovered art. Determined to walk this path, she attended a string of academies and workshops in Florence, Paris and London, before arriving at Grand Central Atelier in NYC where she is currently studying.

View Ya Chin’s work on instagram here and here.

About Post Theatrical

Post Theatrical is a festival of works that uses the post as a theatrical medium. Wildly varied in form, content, and duration, these 13 experiences have been intentionally built for increased audience access and inclusion beyond that which is possible in typical live theater. Post Theatrical aspires to connect human beings of disparate backgrounds despite (and in some ways, through) distance. Post Theatrical is conceived and coordinated by RealTime Interventions.
Visit the Post Theatrical website to sign up and support additional events.

NOTE: If you missed this production and want to be alerted when it will next perform, please email us!

After purchasing a fully furnished house in a small town, the new occupant discovers their new home is not as advertised... 

Tiny Box Theater presents: The House We Never Lived In, an interactive performance for just six audience members at a time. The audience will listen to the story on headphones and, when prompted, interact with props and objects of nostalgia including a dollhouse. Depending on both chance and choices, the story will play out differently for each audience member.

The House We Never Lived In
Story: Joy Tomasko
Direction & Visual Design: Sarah Murphy & Joy Tomasko
Sound + Score: David Lamoureux
Voice Artists: Jen Anaya, Nico Grelli, Sarah Murphy, Justin Steeve
Toy Consultant: Jonathan Alexandratos
Poster Design: Aaron C. Smith

Participants must bring their own fully charged smartphone to access audio and video on WiFi. Headphones will be provided.

Ages 16+
No children will be admitted.

Friday, December 6 at 4:30pm, 6pm, 7:30pm, 9pm
Saturday, December 7 at 3pm, 4:30pm, 6pm
Sunday, December 8 at 3pm, 4:30pm, 6pm

Tickets $20. Purchase tickets here.
Estimated running time is 40 minutes. Please arrive at least 5 minutes early to connect devices. Latecomers will not be admitted. No refunds or exchanges due to the limited number of seats per performance.

This production will be hosted by Eleventh Street Arts located at 4606 11th Street in Long Island City - just two blocks from MoMA PS1 - easily accessible by the 7, G, E & M trains.

Tiny Box Theater is a proud contributor to the Indie Theater Fund. www.indietheaterfund.org

This event is made possible (in part) by the Queens Council on the Arts with public funds from the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs in partnership with the City Council.

Lost My Train of Thought, our first new longer work for a larger audience, will be presented at the So-fi Festival. The So-fi festival is a low-fi, high concept, multidisciplinary, solo performance festival in NYC.

We’ll be performing in the beautiful Bell Labs Boardroom at the Westbeth in the West Village.
Enter on 463 West Street and take the elevator to the 12th floor. Room 1209.

Saturday, June 8 at 3:300pm
Sunday, June 9 at 2:00pm
Tuesday, June 18th at 8:30pm. Purchase a ticket.

Purchase a double bill ticket to see two shows for a discount!
On June 8 & 9 we’re in rep with Parlor Poems - conceived, designed & directed by Natalie Johnson’s Neubert featuring the poetry of Dennis Krausnick.

And on June 18th we’re in rep with BlueBeardGasLight - written & performed by Kyra Miller. Presented in Association with The Muse Project.

It’s our 5th year performing at Figment NYC! This year the festival will be held at Lighthouse Park on Roosevelt Island. Figment is a free participatory art festival full of activities (and even costumes!) for all ages.

On Saturday, we are presenting The Curiosity Shop and Seed Money. On Sunday, we are presenting Song of My Shoe, Sole Search!, and The Shoe Shine Sam Show.

On both Saturday and Sunday, we’ll perform from 12:00pm - 4:00pm. Tickets are free but require registration.

For exact location information of our pieces, we’ll post on our instagram page the morning of Figment weekend as we set up. Be sure to follow us!

As we wind our way back to New York City from Edinburgh we decided to stop off in Toronto. This is our first time bringing our projects to Figment Toronto! Figment is a free participatory art festival full of activities for all ages.

Projects we’re bringing: The Curiosity Shop, Seed Money

Participate in our work on Saturday from 10:00am-6:00pm and Sunday from 12:00pm-5:00pm in Dufferin Grove Park.

The Edinburgh Fringe Festival is the largest arts festival in the world!

We're performing The Curiosity Shop & Seed Money outside amidst all the activity of the Royal Mile at the corner of High Street and St. Giles Street. Visit us as we busk next to living statues.

On August 8, 9, 10, 11 & 13, we’re performing from about 11:00am-5:00pm (with a wee lunch break!). August 12th is our rainy day off.

This is our first time bringing our projects to Figment Boston! Figment is a free participatory art festival full of activities for all ages.

Projects we’re bringing: The Curiosity Shop, Seed Money & Return If Found

Participate in our work on Saturday from 11:00am-6:00pm and Sunday from 11:00am-4:00pm. You can find us at The Rose Kennedy Greenway Conservancy in the square of Atlantic/Pearl/Purchase/Congress.

Tiny Box Theater collaborator, Joy Tomasko, has presented installations the previous three years at the LIC Arts Open. This year Tiny Box Theater is premiering their project, Return If Found - a card catalog adventure story starring you, The Reader.

On view at Grand Central Atelier from 12:00-6:00pm on both Saturday and Sunday during LIC Arts Open in Long Island City, Queens.

This is our third time bringing our projects to Figment NYC! Figment is a free participatory art festival full of activities for all ages.

Projects we’re bringing: The Salty People Oyster Bar and The Place of Many Hills

Participate in our work on Sunday from 1:00pm - 4:00pm on Governors Island.

This is our second time bringing our projects to Figment NYC! Figment is a free participatory art festival full of activities for all ages.

We’re bringing our project: Island Specimen.

Participate in our work on Saturday & Sunday from 1:00pm - 4:00pm on Governors Island.

This is our first time bringing our Tiny Box Theater projects to Figment NYC but as collaborators we’ve been brining projects to Figment since 2011. Figment is a free participatory art festival full of activities for all ages.

Projects we’re bringing: Island Soldier & Island Librarian

Participate in our work on Saturday & Sunday from 1:00pm - 4:00pm on Governors Island.