COMPANY HISTORY.

Tricklock Company is a prolific and talented ensemble that, since its inception in 1993, has been dedicated to creating and touring highly theatrical, often physical and poetic theatre; working with both original and published scripts. In addition, Tricklock runs two annual programs: the Manoa Project: Teen Playwriting and Ensemble Apprenticeship, as well as the Revolutions International Theatre Festival, which showcases the most provocative and powerful artists the company has harvested on their tours around the world to audiences across Albuquerque and Santa Fe.

The artists of the Tricklock ensemble believe in the power of ongoing intensive artistic training, international collaboration and cultural exchange through theater, and in the capacity of the theater for bringing about positive personal change, inspiration and possibilities for a community. Tricklock is constantly seeking out other companies and masters with whom to collaborate. Several important mentors have markedly influenced the company's development. In 1996 and 1997, the company collaborated with Leonardo Shapiro (of New York's Shaliko Company), who directed the ensemble's first touring production of The Seagull, described by critics across the country as the company's breakthrough production.

Soon after, Tricklock began a series of ongoing exchanges and training with internationally renowned companies including Gardzienice Theatre of Poland, Double Edge Theatre of Massachusetts, Dell'Arte Company of California and Anne Bogart's SITI Company. These connections led to creative exchanges and projects with artists from all over the world, including: Lee Worley of the Open Theatre, Bread and Puppet Theatre, writer/director Neil LaBute, Obie Award-winning playwrights Mac Wellman and Michael McClure, Evo� Performing Artists of D�sseldorf, master mime Daniel Stein, Karen Hines of the Canadian clown duo Mump and Smoot and many more. Over the past decade Tricklock has toured extensively to Edinburgh, Belgrade, Koln, Prague, Budapest, Seattle, Baltimore, Los Angeles, Chicago and many cities across Canada and Poland. The company has also been the invited guest of Acco Theatre Festival in Israel, One Yellow Rabbit's High Performance Rodeo Festival in Calgary, and the prestigious Prague Quadrennial Festival in the Czech Republic, among others.

In 2000 Tricklock was awarded the Artistic Pick of the Festival Award at the Seattle International Fringe Festival, and granted an extended run at the Tony Award-winning Seattle Repertory Theatre. In its hometown of Albuquerque, New Mexico, the company was awarded the Albuquerque Arts Alliance BRAVO Award for Excellence in Theater in 2003, and has been awarded the Weekly Alibi's award for Best Theatre Company every year since 2000. In 2005 Tricklock became the first professional Theatre Company in Residence at the University of New Mexico College of Fine Arts and began developing and teaching courses in original performance development, skills for entering the industry and producing. In 2007 Tricklock was awarded the Lifetime Achievement Award by the Weekly Alibi for the company's dedication to creating and touring original live performance, creating innovative apprenticeship programs for teens and for its commitment to artistic and cultural exchange between New Mexico and the world.