About
Powerhouse: International launches this fall at Brooklyn’s Powerhouse Arts. Conceived and curated by Tony Award–winning producer and Artistic Director David Binder, the festival draws on Brooklyn’s legacy of cultural intersection to bring together artists from around the world in a space built for imagination without limits.
At a time when opportunities for cultural exchange are shrinking, Powerhouse: International offers a charged meeting ground for theater, music, dance, installation, and works that defy category. The former power plant becomes a place where artists and audiences move through each other’s rhythms, stories, and forms. Three major artists will make their American debuts; others return with groundbreaking new work. Across nearly three months, the program ranges from global superstars to daring new voices, each testing the stage’s capacity to provoke, connect, and transform.
That energy is matched by a commitment to access: more than 10,000 tickets at $30 to ensure that the work is for everyone. This festival is rooted in artistic freedom, experimentation, and bold response in a moment that demands nothing less—unstuffy, unbound, porous, alive.
Powerhouse Arts, with its graffiti-clad walls, vibrant artistic community, and ethos of radical possibility, is more than a venue. It’s a statement, and the perfect home for a festival rooted in artistic freedom, experimentation, and bold response in a moment that demands nothing less.
The 117-year-old building once powered Brooklyn’s streetcars. Now it powers something else entirely: 50,000 square feet of space, a massive Grand Hall, and studios and fabrication shops. An extended network of art and fabrication professionals work together here to co-create and share artistic practices vital to the wellbeing of artists and the communities to which they belong.
Powerhouse: International exists because of visionaries who believed in possibility and backed it with generosity and creativity.
Their commitment fuels a season of premieres, risk-taking, and discovery. Together, we are not only launching a festival but opening a space where bold ideas cross borders, allow new voices to rise, and the future of performance is made.
You've helped us prove that in an age of division, creativity remains our most powerful form of connection.
Thank you.
Blavatnik Foundation
Mart Foundation
Richenthal Foundation
Mark Diker
Fresh Direct
Ruth & Steve Hendel
Hermès
Sharon Karmazin
L’Alliance Francaise
Marianne Mills
Onassis Stegi Touring Program
Jordan Roth
David Schwartz Foundation
The Jennifer and Jonathan Allan Soros Foundation
Arielle Tepper
Jane Toll
Anonymous Donors
Powerhouse Arts Board
Board Chair
Laura Hanna
Board Members
LaToya Ruby Frazier
Christopher Ho
Michael Hurst
Elizabeth Buckley Lewis
Cassie Rosenthal
Tracey Ryans
Dread Scott
Founder & Director Emeritus
Josh Rechnitz
POWERHOUSE: INTERNATIONAL TEAM
Artistic Director/Executive Producer: David Binder
Executive Director: Kent Davidson
Music Program Producer: Adam Shore
Public Program Curator: Gundega Laivina
PRODUCER AND GENERAL MANAGEMENT
THE OFFICE performing arts + film
Rachel Chanoff, Founder / Director
Executive Producer: Erica Zielinski
Producer: Soleil George
Producer: Zion Jackson
Producer: Ana Maroto
Audience Experience Producer: Bruna D’Avila
General Manager, Producing Projects: Barbara Sartore
General Manager: Chloe Golding
Bookkeeping and Administration: Raleigh Capozzalo
Company Manager: Carol Blanco
Assistant Company Manager: Sam Dietderich
Worktable Host/Production Lead: Carol Avery
House Manager: Rubina Shafi
Associate House Managers: Henry Pedersen, Shubangi Kuchibhotla
Audience Experience: Jen Anaya, Zibia Bardin, Sahar Babi, Lindsay Bueno, Cordero, Cornelia Sheppard Dawson, Sofia Fugon, Grace Fanning, Ruth Gershberg, Chloe Green, Charles Kamin-Allen, Sanja Kabalin, JAX KOYOTE, Kate Lane, Kat McLane, Ariana Milian, Matthew Manga, Astrid Malter, Wayne Neal, Micah Price, Jackie Rivera, Caco Skolnik, Futaba Shioda, Sanjana Taskar, Dusk Vermillion, Shiva Viswanathan, Marika Wolff
PRODUCTION
AURORA Productions
Ben Heller, President
Liza Luxenberg, Chief Operating Officer
Business Affairs Manager: Cori Gardner
Production Coordinator: Emily Hayes
Production Manager: Joe Trainor
Production Manager: Nic Forero
Deputy Production Manager: Shira Barnir
Deputy Production Manager: Matt Thompson
Production Carpenter: John Latona
Production Electrician: John Anselmo
Production Sound: Andrew Lulling
Production Video: Tristan Van Tine
Associate Production Electrician: Devin Sullivan
Festival Crew Head: Evie Parfitt
Festival Head Sound: Andrew Lulling
Festival Head Lighting: Tristan Van Tine
Wardrobe Supervisor: Victoria Bek
Lighting Equipment and Special Lighting Effects PRG Broadway
COMMUNICATIONS
Blake Zidell & Associates | Blake Zidell, Adriana Leshko, Moze Halperin
Polk & Co. | Matt Polk, Colgan McNeil, Kelly Stotmeister
BRAND CREATIVE
Creative Director: Andrew Sloat
Video Editor: Joey Barglowski
Motion Designer: Kaitlyn Chandler
Season Copy Support: Nora Sørena Casey, Cara Cannella
Graphic Design Support: Sara Duell
ADVERTISING
ARTHOUSE | Sara Fitzpatrick, Marc Mettler, Sarah Marcus Hansen, Travis Moser, Brandon Stansell, Kat Largent, Gina Suriano, Caroline Meredith
TICKETING
Powered by TODAYTIX | Brian Fenty, Tracy Geltman, Brendan Callahan, Lautrs Cartelli, Julie Eyer, Anthony Galvin, Stella Green, Ian Shain, Kyle Sircus, Megan Sztorc
ADMINISTRATIVE
Fundraising Consultant: Gura Associates
Production Counsel: Jason Baruch, Esq., Sendroff & Baruch, LLP
Project Advisor: Trish Santini
SPECIAL THANKS
Mark Ball, Rob and Ben Bannon, Wendy Orshan, Sir Alistair Spalding CBE, Jeff Wilson, Keith Yamashita