Welcome
PEP is a collective of theatre artists making original work in the Charlottesville VA area since 2005. We created the original plays Zelda & Lucia’s Loony Bin Tragedy, Dido Versus the Squid Monster, Our American Ann Sisters, and The Convolution of Pip and Twig. We co-produced two large-scale collaborative art carnivals called A Charlottesville Wunderkammer and Shentai, hosted an artist salon at the Bridge PAI called Assembly, and toured Our American Ann Sisters and a working demonstration called “Building Performance: A Look at Actor-Created Physical Actions.”
We have worked with artists from around the U.S. and the world for residencies of performance, workshops, and exchange, including Serbia’s DAH Theatre from Serbia, Denmark’s Annika Lewis, American companies from New York and Washington, DC, as well as Virginia organizations like Live Arts, Hamner Theater, Zen Monkey Project, Madwoman Project, the Bridge Progressive Arts Initiative, Hollins University, and Mary Baldwin University.
PEP is Doreen Bechtol, Kara McLane Burke, Martha Mendenhall, Siân Richards, and Jennifer Hoyt Tidwell. We are based in Charlottesville VA, with members also living in Staunton, VA and Winston-Salem, NC.
