On February 1, 2011 The Global Theatre Project officially became a US Not-For-Profit and began to do work that stood on the foundation of what was formerly Florence International Theatre Company. The history of The GTP can’t be considered without including the hundreds of individuals who built its purpose, initiated projects which evolved into methodologies and made exceptional, inclusive, challenging art and artistic events with their fellow artists and community members.

We were actors, directors, writers, producers, mask-makers, puppeteers, dancers, singers, musicians, visual artists, bloggers, filmmakers, graphic artists, administrators and educators. We crossed community boundaries to work with not-for-profits, governmental entities, educational institutions, parks, museums, churches and synagogues. We crossed national boundaries to connect – through official collaboration and with individual artists – Italy, the US, Britain, Belarus, Russia, Poland, Mexico, Sweden and Argentina. We worked in multiple languages – English, Italian, French, German, Arabic, American Sign Language, Spanish, and Russian.

Above and beyond it all, we celebrated the enormous gift that is being a human being confronting all the challenges this gift offers us — those obstacles which keep us from living on a peaceful and loving planet.

But we hold, at the end of this decade, that this is still a viable possibility regardless of the increased violence we may see and the rise of nationalism which opposes the one thing any collective artist can stand for – freedom of expression and freedom of ideas.

Please celebrate with us our efforts of this last last decade, some of which I will post below with hopes this will be the foundation we will continue to build on as we respond to the coming years ahead to be lived out in the 2020’s.

The happiest of New Years to you and yours.

Bari Hochwald
Artistic Director and President

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