We are finalist for NEFA’s 2024 National Theatre Project Creation and Touring Grant! I saw a crescent moon above a branch of silver… is a new multidisciplinary performance work adapted from queer pre-modern poetry and mythology. This multilingual performance will shine a light on the distant past to find new ways of conceiving gender and desire… […]
ΠΑΜΕ ΣΤΗΝ ΕΛΛΑΔΑ! In February Mat will travel to Greece as a 2024 Fulbright Scholar. During his fellowship Mat & Sebastian will research and collaborate with artists and musicians in Athens, Nafplio, Epirus and Crete, developing two new projects set to premiere in the US in late 2025 and 2026. Photos taken at the Benaki Museum […]
Four Larks traveled to Chicago in early January to present Hymns to the Society for Classical Studies at their annual conference. Mat & Sebastian joined a group of selected artists and scholars to share videos, and talk about their process of adapting Homeric poetry into contemporary theatre and folk music. For information about the upcoming live […]
Mat was invited to spend the spring as a fellow in the gorgeous estate at Yaddo in Saratoga Springs, NY. He spent April-June hollering out folk songs and stringing together some new melodies in a converted dairy barn, biking around nearby trails, chasing ghosts in the mansion, reading, researching, and basking in the brilliance of […]
Four Larks has received six nominations for the Los Angeles Theatre Awards from Stage Raw. We have been nominated for Best Musical, Best Original Score, Music Direction, Choreography, Lighting Design and Sound Design. Thank you Stage Raw for championing Los Angeles performance makers and congrats to all nominees.
Thanks to KCRW for including us in their top ten for the second year in a row! “Sticking downtown, Four Larks again makes my list. This young company melds installation art, theater, and opera in productions that are discovered little treasures. This year they gave in to The Temptation of St. Antony in a pop-up gem of a theater. […]
Four Larks has received the Ovation Awards for Best Ensemble and Best Music from the LA Stage Alliance. We were also nominated for our Lighting, Design, Choreography and for Best Production of the Year.
Four Larks are featured in L.A. WEEKLY’s “Best of LA” 2015 We’re so excited to be included in this list of treasures! Check it out! http://features.laweekly.com/bestof2015/