Resident Companies
These two dynamic, innovative companies will help fill The Flea
with art and life through 2027.
2025-27 Flea Key Resident Company
viBe Theater Experience
A Brooklyn-based performing arts nonprofit that provides free theater and music arts education, academic and wellness support services, youth leadership and workforce development opportunities to girls, young women, trans and gender-expansive youth of color ages 13-26 throughout New York City and nation-wide.
viBe’s intensive programming engages, inspires, and empowers young people to write, publish, direct, and perform personal and collaborative performance art based on their lived experiences.
Recently at The Flea
Breaking, Fast
The Siggy Theater
June 28, 2025
Every now and then, the coping mechanisms that have carried us give out. The band-aids can’t heal the wound and the silence builds up painfully under the tongue. These characters are at their breaking point and ready to find the peace on the other side of some powerful, yet difficult changes. How does one even begin after years of conformance? They decide to start with a meeting.
Produced by viBe Theater Experience and presented in NYC as part of The Flea’s Key Resident Company Program.
2025-27 Flea Resident Company
TRIBE
TRIBE cultivates space to create a platform for artists – most specifically artists of color – with huge inspiration from the Afrofuturism movement. This movement states that we have a responsibility through our work to tell new stories and create a brighter future that is different, and shines more luminously, from its past. TRIBE aims to bring the audience and community into experiences that humanizes Black and Brown bodies and shares the colorfulness within Blackness that allows us to be multiplicitous.
Next at The Flea
Luminescence
The Sam Theater
November 13 - 15, 2025
Join us for Luminescence, a rare evening of live performance presenting five original solo works by TRIBE artists: Ashley Pierre-Louis, Marcella Lewis, Tushrik Fredericks, and Shamel Pitts, with performers Marirosa Crawford and Ny Opong.
Across three nights only, these brilliant artists illuminate the stage with intimate, powerful, and transformative performances that reflect TRIBE’s core ethos: art as a space for freedom, humanity, and connection.
Think Like They
Choreography by Shamel Pitts, Performance by Ny Opong
(territory) of the heart
Choreography, Soundscape & Performance by Tushrik Fredericks
Spectacle of Ritual (solo rendition)
Choreography by Marcella Lewis, Performance by Marirosa Crawford
SORAYA
Choreography & Performance by Ashley Pierre-Louis
little black lake of RED
Choreography & Performance by Shamel Pitts
The Flea Theater’s Resident Company Program is made possible by the generous support of the Howard Gilman Foundation, the Culpeper Arts Fund, a fund of the Rockefeller Brothers Foundation, The Shubert Fund, The Scherman Foundation, the Stavros Niarchos Foundation, the Lucille Lortel Foundation, the John Golden Fund, and the championship of our Board of Directors and many individual donors. This program is additionally supported, in part, by public funds from the New York State Council on the Arts with the support of the Office of the Governor and the New York State Legislature.