Anyone There?: A Loneliness Art of Care Devised Project

Anyone There?: A Loneliness Art of Care Devised Project created by Jessica Bauman

This workshop is co-hosted by Theater Alliance and the Laboratory for Global Performance and Politics, where Anyone There? is being developed in collaboration with the Lab's Art of Care Initiative.

ABOUT ANYONE THERE?:

Former U.S. Surgeon General Vivek Murthy has called loneliness a public-health crisis—and Anyone There? asks what it takes to find our way back to one another. Created by Director Jessica Bauman with Movement Director Rebekah Morin, this new theater piece blends real community stories, scientific insight, and embodied audience participation to explore how isolation shapes our lives and how connection heals. Drawing from verbatim interviews and inviting audiences into shared moments of presence, Anyone There? isn’t just about loneliness; it’s an experience designed to help us remember how to connect.

ABOUT THE LABORATORY FOR GLOBAL PERFORMANCE AND POLITICS:

The Lab humanizes global politics through performance. We cultivate a distinctive global community of collaborators that includes students, emerging and established artists, educators, policy leaders, and activists. Our work harnesses narrative, memory, and acts of witnessing with the aim of sparking transformation and change.

The Lab creates and presents innovative high-quality work from around the world that is at the intersection of politics and performance. Our approach raises voices rarely heard in Washington, DC through compelling, authentic, cross-cultural narratives, and engages policymakers, as well as artists, students, and wider audiences in forums that cast critical issues in a new light.

In the midst of increased polarization, division, conflict, and lack of understanding between peoples and cultures, The Lab works to bridge differences and offers opportunities to better understand each other.