The OBIE and Bessie Award-winning Chocolate Factory Theater is a leading incubator for experimental performance. The 5,000-square-foot facility is home to work emphasizing multi-disciplinary collaboration combining movement, music, video, and text to devise a means of storytelling that is immediate, collage-like, highly visual, and dependent on new technologies. When successful, the work is not easily categorized as theater, dance, new music or video art and is rather a thorough intermingling of these disciplines.

Inside scoop: The factory provides more than 100 visiting artists a year with dedicated access to the space and technical equipment, substantive creative residency periods, commissioning funds, administrative support and a guaranteed artist fee.