Lyra Theater was co-founded by Hope Chavez, Kyle Michael Yoder, and Noam Shapiro. With backgrounds in cognitive science, history, media, directing, acting, and producing, we are on a mission to create theater by and for emerging artists. As a constellation of artists, we strive to build a creative home for emerging theater makers in New York City and to pay our artists for their valuable work. Through our productions, workshops, and open-submission policy, Lyra creates theater that aims to challenge audiences, start communities, and reflect the diversity of our world.
Lyra Theater updates Bertolt Brecht's 1941 satire about a demagogue coming to power in a democratic state to…