New Elevator Project Announced!

Since 2014, The Elevator Project has featured the work of small, emerging and historically marginalized arts groups performing on the Center’s stages. The selected participants receive a myriad of support including venue access, production assistance, marketing, and other resources to help bring their artistic visions to life.

Preview the 2025 – 2026 Season

Shakti Collective
Shades of Women in Love
September 5 – 7 | Wyly Studio Theatre | ON SALE NOW!
Shades of Women in Love discovers the timeless power of love through the lens of feminist poets and ancient texts. From Maya Angelou to NatyaShastra’s AshtaNayikas, explore the emotional states of women in love. Understand how these archetypes connect to modern-day experiences, highlighting themes of love, longing, and empowerment. Dive into the rich tapestry of women’s emotions and see how love defines strength and resilience across ages.

Pegasus Theatre
MacMurder!
MacMurder! is a world premiere production of an original comedy-murder mystery that captures the look and feel of an old Hollywood movie from the 1930s and 1940s. The script will feature three crime-fighting characters: Harry Hunsacker (an inept but endearing private detective), Nigel Grouse (Harry’s paid-by-the-hour assistant), and Lt. Foster of the real police (a regular guy who is constantly driven crazy by Harry’s hare-brained ideas). They encounter a host of eccentric characters and are soon faced with a “whodunnit”. One of the characters has been bumped off and others are at risk, unless Harry, Nigel, and Lt. Foster can decipher the clues, catch the bad guys (or gals), and see that justice is served.

Mr. PIXIE
Selfie-Conscious
Selfie-Conscious is an interactive theater production in which a host, Mr. PIXIE, guides the audience in creating an avatar for his new social network platform, “Selfie Conscious”. This is achieved by taking pictures of 4 different volunteers and compiling those into a kind of Frankenstein’s monster collage. Throughout the show the audience is also guided through “selfie exercises” in which they converse with themselves in comic and poignant ways.

By incorporating our ever-present phones into the show, Selfie-Conscious seeks to create a space for audiences to examine how they use social media, as well as how they view themselves in digital spaces. By facilitating this unique dialogue and also using the audience to create a collective avatar (or “creature”), the show invites contemplation on the intersection between digital platforms and real-life interactions.

Mac Welch
Lungs by Duncan Macmillan
“Ten thousand tons of CO2. That’s the weight of the Eiffel Tower. I’d be giving birth to the Eiffel Tower.”

This humorous remark captures the tone of Lungs, Duncan Macmillan’s striking yet occasionally frustrating play. Says director Mac Welch: “Lungs changed my life. It made me realize that the scary part is not living my life and focusing on my day-to-day, but lacking awareness. I have more impact on the world surrounding me than I realize. And why can’t there be beauty in the immense impact we have on individuals, not just the impact we have on the world.”

The Flame Foundation
Macho Flamenco: Boys Don’t Dance
Macho Flamenco: Boys Don’t Dance brings forth the blend of flamenco styles from traditional expected male and female dances to contemporary styles that have paved a way so that Flamenco as an art form breaks tabooed overarching perimeters.

Sam Cormier
Remember Me
Remember Me is an immersive soundscape performance that blends original music, photography, and theater performance from queer, Dallas artists. The performance will explore the unique and shared experiences of three queer artists, exploring their relationships with family and their personal experience growing up as a queer person in Texas.

Over the Bridge Arts
NEXT
In a world that was constantly moving, blinking, beeping, talking and droning, the noises came to a stop. Downtown streets were quiet and top tourist destinations deserted. The skies brightened to their original blues, the air cleared, and animals crept out from their hiding places to roam the streets. It was 2020, and the human race was facing a global pandemic with outcomes unknown. Shock. Panic. Fear. What was really going on? Some wondered: What’s NEXT? Five years later, what has changed? What words and phrases have become so common we’ve forgotten they were ever new? How did technology jump into the void and alter the way we connect and communicate – or don’t? How many precious relationships have we lost, and how many gained? How have our expectations around “work” and “play” and “dating” changed, and where are the boundaries?

Baba Kuboye
Summer Heats and Afrobeats
Summer Heats and Afrobeats is a journey through Afrobeat from its inception to the present day. The music presented will include the original compositions of Fela Kuti, the founder of Afrobeat. The music will also include covers of top 40 Afrobeat hits as well as original music from Baba Kuboye. Hence the journey is the origination, the current situation and the future of Afrobeat.

Bandan Koro African Drum and Dance Ensemble
Wakati Wa Mavuno
Wakati Wa Mavuno is a signature, interactive experience exploring one’s cultural identity guided by the music and dance of Sub-Saharan Africa. This cultivating journey presents the idea that through reflection you can learn that the power to manifest a plentiful harvest for your life lies within you.