Resident Companies
These two dynamic, innovative companies will help fill The Flea
with art and life through 2027.
viBe Theater Experience
2025-27 Flea Key Resident Company
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.
Upcoming at The Flea
A Series of Readings
New Works by viBe Company
Radio Rèv by Bianca Berger • Flip Side by Jazela Wright • Shadow by Jeniah Martin • Our Other Side by Alex Holloman
viBe Juneteenth Panel Discussion
in collaboration with Black Revolutionary Theater Workshop (BRTW)
Saturday June 20, 7 - 10pm
Black Revolutionary Theatre Workshop (BRTW) x viBe: Juneteenth Melanated Mondays
viBe & BRTW will host a reading of new works that will culminate in a panel discussion featuring Black leaders, activists, organizers and artists as part of their Juneteenth Melanated Mondays programming on Saturday, June 20 from 7-10pm.
This event celebrates Juneteenth by forging new and reigniting old connections between Black theater organizations in the City while recentering Black art as a vehicle for social change and collective liberation.
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.
Premiering at The Flea
SORE
June 4 - 6, 2026 • The Sam Theater
A New Duet by Ashley Pierre-Louis in collaboration with Dominica Greene.
With initial inspiration stemming from Nicole Krauss’ book entitled To Be A Man – SORE aims to create a safe environment for the performers to live and thrive inside. In this world, explorations within the in-between of “the beginning of [their] sense of self and the chaos of [their] strongest feelings” will take place, culminating in a found unassailable power, rooted in the erotic.
Artistic Team
Concept Direction: Ashley Pierre-Louis •Choreographer: Ashley Pierre-Louis in collaboration with Dominica Greene • Artistic Director: Shamel Pitts • Performers: Dominica Greene and Ashley Pierre-Louis • Lighting Designer and Artistic Production Manager: Sarai Frazier • Video Content & Projection Designer: Lucca del Carlo • Sound Collager: Tushrik Fredericks • Scenic Designer: Nadir Bey • Managing Director: Brittany Wilson • Creative Director: Mirelle Martins • Artistic Administrator: E Katrina Lewis • Development Director: Eric Umble • Digital Creative & Development Associate: Pam Panozzo
Past Works
viBe
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A dynamic stage reading of the original play, Eva’s Eye. A black family noir set in modern times, this story details the experience of a woman who has held her secrets closer to her chest than her family. Where will Eva’s cards land if she opens her arms to hold them instead?
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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 decided to start with a meeting. -
Artists Alicia Pilgrim, Nina Riley, Lei’anna Nicole, and Phanésia Pharel took audiences on a journey through four (4) paths:
The death and birth of self to reach pure authenticity and self-love.
The relationship between time, liminality, and emotional spectrums as we experience grief.
The collective healing required to alleviate Black rage through ancestral veneration.
And the disruption of silence, especially for Black Women, and how it can set us all free.
We are placing Freedom in the here and now through multimedia and interactive productions.
TRIBE
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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 FredericksSpectacle of Ritual (solo rendition)
Choreography by Marcella Lewis, Performance by Marirosa CrawfordSORAYA
Choreography & Performance by Ashley Pierre-Louislittle black lake of RED
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A site-specific, immersive installation by TRIBE artist Lucca Del Carlo.
Blending dynamic lighting, sculptural soundscapes, and layered visual textures, the installation invites visitors into a shifting, meditative environment — a cave of light, sound, and sensation.
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.