all the world’s a stage… in the Cloud

Live theatre is a secular temple — a gathering, nurturing, healing place— in our increasingly fractured world.

But how does live theatre happen in the post-pandemic era of uncertainty and digital disruption?

Our mission: to reinvigorate live theatre for the postdigital era, where live performance will happen in-person and in the Cloud.

We're doing this by partnering with leading regional institutions and artist groups — including California Shakespeare Theater, the Playwrights Foundation, the Marsh, and the Actors Reading Collective (ARC) — to co-create meaningful, provocative live performances that engage their current patrons as well as new audiences all over the world. Our projects also provide new opportunities for professional artists who have been impacted by the pandemic as well long-term economic challenges for in-person theatre companies.

Separately, for non-theatrical brands and organizations, Remote operates a successful story strategy & media consultancy called Remote Story Lab. Over the years the Lab has advised organizations such as the United Nations, Yunus Social Business, the Girl Scouts of America, The White House (Obama years), the DNC (2016 campaign), the U.S. Department of Education, the AARP, Stanford University, the Greater Good Science Center at U.C. Berkeley, Singularity University, and Morehouse College, one of the nation's leading HBCUs. In 2021, the Lab helped to spin off The Brooklyn Story Lab, a new independent media agency helping purpose-driven organizations create content about their social-good work.

“Remote Theater is one of those newly-minted organizations designed especially to solve the challenges of the absence of live theater….”

Victor Cordell, member, American Theatre Critics Association

“ONE FLEA SPARE” received an elegant and dynamic production from Remote Theater, and Giovanni Rodriguez did a masterful job directing the play. I'm very much looking forward to our next project together.”

—Naomi Wallace, Obie-award winning playwright

“Only at the Remote could I work with four of my favorite actors ever without having to book them two years in advance. And I loved the result. Who knew that seeing my plays online could be just as powerful as seeing them in person?”

—Billy Aronson, the originator of the concept and librettist for RENT

“My play Magician's Choice received a wonderful staged reading at Remote Theater. The cast were among the finest actors in the Bay Area, and director Giovanni Rodriguez created an intimate, nuanced, and emotionally powerful production. I've had two dozen plays produced live nationally and this production hit it out of the park.”

—Lynne Kaufman, winner of NEA New American Plays Award, among others.