About ​​TEam sunshine performance

Team Sunshine Performance is dedicated to serving as a hub for the creative investigation of contemporary American culture and what it means to be a participant in it. Our projects have taken many forms, including theater, dance, and participatory events, all of which are original works that focus on ways in which artists, audiences, and communities can engage with the pleasures and difficulties of living in our world today. We are deeply committed to experimentation, guided by the belief that creating new kinds of performance can help shape and mold powerful visions for the future. All of the company’s processes center collaboration and collective decision-making, as we seek to create healthy and nourishing experiences for audiences and artists alike.

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Regional and national presenters of Team Sunshine include FringeArts, Philadelphia Museum of Art, National Asian American Theater Festival, Ko Festival, and The Barnes Foundation, with works commissioned by the Rosenbach Museum and Library and by PECO/Philadelphia Redevelopment Authority. Funding and production support has been provided by Knight Foundation, Wyncote Foundation, Philadelphia Cultural Fund, Greater Philadelphia Cultural Alliance, Samuel S. Fels Fund, NALAC, The Orchard Project, SPACE at Ryder Farm, Charlotte Cushman Foundation, National Performance Network, Network of Ensemble Theaters, National Endowment for the Arts, and New England Foundation for the Arts.

Team Sunshine Performance is a Network of Ensemble Theaters member, and a 501c3 not-for-profit organization.

Our Values

We talk a lot about our company values, aiming to build our work together in values-based creative, administrative, and educational practices. And what does that mean? For us, it’s meant an ongoing process of articulating, sharpening, and operationalizing our values into each aspect of Team Sunshine's work. We enthusiastically invite every new collaborator to engage in this practice.
Four Team Sunshine values that we attempt to infuse into all our work spaces are Authenticity, Collaboration, Experimentation, and Respect.

Here are some ways we think about these values:

• AUTHENTICITY - We believe that art thrives on the unique abilities, perspectives, and experiences of the people making it. Communicating about the human needs of our collaborators (and ourselves) helps us build healthy, nourishing spaces for all parties to show up in a full-bodied, full-hearted way. Everyone’s got superpowers, and we want them in the room. 
• COLLABORATION - Team Sunshine’s work is deeply rooted in ensemble practice. This means we devise original performances with groups of artists who each have agency to impact the space and the work as it gets built. This ethos extends to our administrative and producing processes – we make all our biggest decisions in collaboration. 
• EXPERIMENTATION - We honor evolution over efficiency. We often reinvent our creative and administrative processes to influence the relevance and impact of our work, which leads to a lot of experiments, both tiny and large in scope. Rather than sticking to the same way of doing things, this commitment to adaptation helps us take updated care of our relationships to the art and to each other.
• RESPECT - The business of art making can often feel callous - our goal is to bring as much humanity into Team Sunshine processes as possible. We acknowledge and value the time and energy of our collaborators. We lean into gratitude, and we try to uphold our responsibilities to our audiences, to our partners, and to each other with integrity. ​