More about BLC
Brave Little Company is Theatre for Everyone.
We create and produce work about, with, and for all of Houston’s kids and their grown-ups. We reflect Houston’s diversity in the stories we tell and the artists who tell them, creating theatre the way kids play.
Founded in 2013, we have four main areas of work: creating and producing work about, with, and for all of Houston's kids, with a focus on dual language work; THE BIG "US" PROJECT, a collaborative theatre initiative created by 100 members of Houston's refugee and immigrant communities; Wish You Were Here, a creative collaboration with students with disabilities; and teaching artist residencies serving the needs of students and teachers.
Our work in 2023 combines live performance with alternative format theatre.
Our “play by mail” series Paper Offerings, originally inspired by pandemic restrictions, returns for a third season. Paper Offerings tells the story of a Vietnamese American girl growing up in Houston’s Midtown neighborhood and the otherworldly things that happen to her family, and is funded in part by the City of Houston through Houston Arts Alliance.
With support from the National Endowment for the Arts, Missing from the Museum is entering its third season. Missing from the Museum, a collaboration with Dare to Dream Theatre, Off the Page, and Trike Theatre, is an interactive video series combining adventure with art history to highlight issues of representation in arts institutions.
The same multi-state group of theatre partners acts as the No Book Bans Coalition. (Read our article in American Theatre.)
We returned to live public programming with Our Stories Belong: A Rainbow Storytime for ALL of Houston’s Kids, in partnership with Holocaust Museum Houston and the Montrose Center, and Grandpa’s Garden, a musical exploring one family’s roots and legacy as African Americans. THE BIG “US” PROJECT will return to live performance for the first time since 2019, funded in part by the City of Houston through Houston Arts Alliance.
BLC has been on the Touring Roster of Texas Commission on the Arts since 2020 and is a Young Audiences of Houston arts partner.