The Bakery is a theatrical laboratory that formalizes a 20-year period of collaboration and creation of devised work that is interdisciplinary in concept.  Heightened corporal expression, image, sound, and text are blended into a conceptual performance event that emphasizes the pleasure of live art.  We are devoted to exploring performance in theatrical and interventionist experiences.  The structure of the work is affixed in physical, visual and aural musicality and does not necessarily follow traditional theatrical structures. We aim to speak to the 21st century audience about contemporary concerns.

Each performance is developed through an extended, ensemble driven, period of research.  The aesthetic form and creation process is performance specific. Our artistic process is experimental and interdisciplinary.  Ongoing collaborations and ensemble training are at the core of our process.   We conduct weekly training in the Six Viewpoints and a physical approach to acting in an improvisational laboratory.

Under the artistic direction of Leslie Baker, the following works have been created THE DANCE OF THE LAWNCHAIRS (1996), DECAMERON 5/8 (1997), MOMENTARY ADVENTURES OF SPACEBUTT AND P. MAN (2003), WORRYING AN OLD SHOE (2004), KNOT OF NOTS (2008), DANDILIONS AND A HOOK (2009), ILLUMINATIONS (2014), FUCK YOU! YOU FUCKING PERV! (2016) and SKIN (2021).