ARTIST TESTIMONIALS

“My art begins at the end of my comfort zone. I thrive on it. At Rattlestick, there is an energy I want to be around, where I can create work that challenges the status quo. I feel fearless there to fail hard.”
- Diana Oh, {my lingerie play}

"Rattlestick gave me the opportunity to write a play about my community for my community and provided me with the careful support I needed to stretch myself artistically and take a deep dive into the history of St. Vincent's Hospital and examine what its loss meant to the Village and the city."
- Cusi Cram, ST. VINCENT'S PROJECT: NOVENAS FOR A LOST HOSPITAL

"the writer
/actor is always like for a place to invent
/reinvent
/challenge 
/a place that forces us to challenge and a place where it is okay to be afraid and be safe
/Rattlestick is that place for Me"
-Dael Orlandersmith, UNTIL THE FLOOD

"In a world where everything is commodified, Rattlestick made me feel that I, the artist, was more important than the art. And I will be forever grateful for that."
-Mashuq Mushtaq Deen, DRAW THE CIRCLE

"Rattlestick gave me a sense of community by giving my strange mind a safe home to tell my strange  stories."
-Xavier Galva, THE PARLOUR, Member of Middle Voice at Rattlestick

“I know that certain plays of mine would only be produced in New York City by Rattlestick. As a Latino theatre-maker, to get to work in one of our nation's most diverse cities, to get to cultivate collaborative relationships in that city, means everything.”
- Martín Zimmerman, Seven Spots on the Sun

“Rattlestick is home. They've made a true commitment to me as a writer providing trust, generosity and a warm place to create. This year is significant in my life as a playwright, because Rattlestick has risked to give me my first theatrical home in NYC producing Orange Julius.”
- Basil Kreimendahl, Orange Julius

“The process of working on the play at the Rattlestick was profoundly fulfilling, validating and -- maybe most importantly -- fun. The Rattlestick artistic staff are people who live, breathe and bleed theater: creative warriors who put everything on the line in order to serve the writers they produce. I learned so much from them, I was so inspired by them, and I cannot wait to work with them again. I know I would not be the writer I am today without the Rattlestick".
- Halley Feiffer, How to Make Friends and then Kill Them

"I'm grateful to Rattlestick for my first NYC production, for believing in my voice as a playwright, and for consistently producing plays about people that live on the margins - in life and in the theatre."
- Martyna Majok, Ironbound

“Rattlestick takes chances on plays from which virtually everyone else would run screaming. It is truly an asylum for adventurous, arresting, and soulful theatre. No fear allowed; only feral spirits with angular minds.”
- Sheila Callaghan, Everything You Touch