THIS SPACE INTENTIONALLY LEFT BLANK

This Space Intentionally Left Blank is a process for creating ensemble-devised theatre that is intensely tied to the time, place, and people who create it. Rather than casting performers into a predetermined concept, Left Blank first builds a cast, and then creates a show collaboratively around that cast. The results are raw, emotional, and often comedic, but above all: stories that could only have been produced by these people, in this place, at this time.

This Space Intentionally Left Blank was first produced in 2014, resulting in a 20-minute one-act play, 'photoBOMB!' in which a Satanist plot to steal the souls of every human on earth can only be foiled by hipsters and the Amish. From selfies to life and death, it was a play very much of its time. 

The 2017 revival took the tabula rasa, art-ex-nihilo approach even further, re-imagining This Space Intentionally Left Blank as a long-form improv show, built around a talented cast, creating a fully-formed narrative experience on the fly and on the spot. The resulting group of improvisers, christening themselves "Tom's Dinner", continue to perform around Seattle.

This Space Intentionally Left Blank 2017 ("Tom's Dinner")