Palehorse Productions, a non-profit theatre and film company, presents classic and important stories to a modern audience through visual spectacle, simple straw-to-gold magic and a deeply rooted love for texts. The company was founded in 2004 by a group of young people who have been collaborating in theatre since childhood.

In creating our work, it is important for us to maintain the earnestness and carefree passion that we had as children. At the same time, we continue to evolve, discovering new techniques and styles for every story, for each demands a different approach. It is through this combination that old stories become vital and new again and we may find the timelessness in modern works.

All our work strives to articulate moments of "magic." We define magic as the unexplainable truth inherent in the ecstasy of dreams, religion, art, science, nature, love... As we grow older we lose the ability to see the magic around us and forget its essential value. By revisiting the images, dreams, fairy tales, ghost stories and classic literature that our Western culture is built on, we hope to share this sometimes forgotten magic with a broad audience.

Palehorse Production's debut production of Shakespeare's OTHELLO was an exercise in simple staging with little "concept." The production recieved critical acclaim from many NYC publications including The Village Voice and won a 2005 New York Innovative Theatre Award for costume design. In May 2005, Palehorse produced a expressionist silent film of HANSEL & GRETEL, an official selection at the 2007 Boston Underground Film Festival. The most recent Palehorse production was an original adaptation of FAUST. The piece stole from Goethe, Marlowe, the traditions of English morality plays, Eastern European and German puppet-FAUST farces and even Punch and Judy. Performed under the guise of Maestro Mephistopheles' Theatro-Zirkus-Show, this bizarre commedia dell'arte circus played all over the streets and parks of Manhattan and Brooklyn.