"This is a time of impossible problems...And yet, with impossible problems come innovations, artistic shape-shifting, and new pathways toward performance creation."
The Neutral Mask
April 5—6, 2025
The Neutral Mask, the mask of calm and balance, is a pedagogical tool that challenges the actor to use their entire body to discover presence through experiencing and understanding the “neutral state”, a state without personal stories, where there is no past nor future.
Summer Session 2025
June 9—28, 2025
The Summer Session is an immersive training program for creative theatre artists interested in pushing the boundaries of contemporary performance. Rooted in Pig Iron's own artistic questions and performance techniques, the intensive workshop is intended to launch performers into the world of physically precise, emotionally rich, imaginatively constructed ensemble-devised theatre. The workshop centers on actor training and on the skill of the performer to heighten his/her/their presence onstage.
Pig Iron School and Rowan University unite
Pig Iron Theatre Company and Rowan University’s College of Performing Arts excitedly announce that they are partnering to establish a Master of Fine Arts and graduate certificate in Devised Performance. Beginning in early 2025, the Pig Iron School will continue its mission to train the next generation of daring, innovative theater artists, in partnership with Rowan, through an accredited master’s program centered on movement, improvisation, and ensemble creation.