Team Sunshine Performance is a Philadelphia-based organization founded in 2010 by Benjamin Camp, Makoto Hirano, and Alex Torra, three artists of different cultural backgrounds with a range of performance expertise (physical theater, contemporary dance, and classical theater), who came together with the intent to create original, ensemble-generated works of experimental yet approachable performances. In operation for over a decade, Team Sunshine has honed an effective brand of collaborative play-making that incorporates wide-ranging aesthetic styles and ideas generated by a collective of performers, directors and designers alike, featuring ensembles ranging from 2-120 actors. Using playful tools of participatory, experimental theater, Team Sunshine’s performance works activate audience-as-community to create a dynamic experience of communal reflection and activation. Each new work builds on Team Sunshine’s rigorous approach to cultivating genre-defying, investigative performance works and events that balance joy with deep investigation, contend with urgent social issues, facilitate critical discourse, and pose creative solutions.
In 2019, Team Sunshine Performance refined its mission to build forward with increased urgency; charging its artists to be better citizens and braver creators by focusing on the intersections of art and activism. The company — led by the three co-founders with the support of two administrative positions — views its full-length performances as flagships of the company’s work, with each project milestone uniquely defined by how directly it speaks to its intended audience. In 2021, Team Sunshine began to develop educational initiatives that serve as an extension of the company work.
Check out Our Work for upcoming presentations
2022

August
The Great American Gunshow work-in-progress, Asian Arts Initiative

The Great American Gunshow work-in-progress, Bloomsburg Theatre Ensemble

June
Your Optimism is Not Required, Trade School, a program of The Philadelphia Thing, at the Village of Arts and Humanities

April
The Great American Gunshow lecture, Gibney Dance Center
2021

December
The Sincerity Project #4: Cyclones, Schools, and Packs, Arch Street Meeting House

September/October
Your Optimism is Not Required,  Bartram’s Garden
2020

December
Your Optimism is Not Required, a virtual sharing via Trade School, a program of The Philadelphia Thing

February
¡BIENVENIDOS BLANCOS! OR WELCOME WHITE PEOPLE!, Cooper Series at Lang Performing Arts Center, Swarthmore College

January
The Regifting Party, Radio Kismet
2019

September
Society of Civil Discourse, Amherst College (MA)

June
The Sincerity Project #3 (2019), High Pressure Fire Service Festival, FringeArts
Creative residency at The Orchard Project (NY)
2013

December
TERRARIUM premiere, the Barnes Foundation

November
The Sincerity Project work-in-progress, First Person Arts

October
HUDDLE LIVE, Fidget Space

January 
Creative residency at The Orchard Project (NY)

May
JapanAmerica Wonderwave premiere, Christ Church Neighborhood House
2012

December
JapanAmerica Wonderwave excerpts, National Performance Network’s Annual Conference

September
DANCE OFF! v. Berserker Residents, Fringe Festival Late Night Cabaret

July
Creative residency at White Pines Productions

June
JapanAmerica Wonderwave, Commotion Festival, a project of Philadelphia Redevelopment Authority and PECO

March
Punchkapow, Passage Theater Company (NJ)
2010

November
Punchkapow premiere, Underground Arts

September
Punchkapow excerpts, Philadelphia Fringe Festival Late-Night Cabaret
Team Sunshine Performance Offices
​​2329 S. 3rd St.
3rd floor
Philadelphia PA 19148
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