“The Foundry folks want to burn down many conventions of theater.”

Steve Barnes, The Times Union

As Producer…

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“Troy Foundry Theatre is doing fine work, important work. No one else locally is trying anything like it. After just one year, Troy Foundry Theatre matters.”

Steve Barnes, The Times Union

Photo Credit: Richard Lovrich

David is the Producing Artistic Director for the Troy Foundry Theatre. Since launching in the Fall of 2017, David has co-produced over 30 events with his Executive Director, Emily Curro, including 8 mainstage site-specific productions and 4 world premieres. Troy Foundry Theatre’s mission focus is on social issues of our time by collaborating with a variety of artists from multiple disciplines to produce and perform new work and reinterpreted classics through the means of new writing, devising and immersive performances. Troy Foundry’s work is predominantly site-specific. To date, the Foundry has produced and curated work in nearly 25 different locales throughout Historic Troy, NY and the Greater NY Capital Region. For more information on Troy Foundry Theatre, visit their website.

Troy Foundry Theatre’s World Premiere production of Yellow, a commission with Die-Cast Philly, directed by Brenna Geffers. (Left to Right: Colleen Corcoran, Ethan Botwick, Anthony Crosby, Ross Beschler, Niya Colbert).Photo Credit: Sarah Pezdek

Troy Foundry Theatre’s World Premiere production of Yellow, a commission with Die-Cast Philly, directed by Brenna Geffers. (Left to Right: Colleen Corcoran, Ethan Botwick, Anthony Crosby, Ross Beschler, Niya Colbert).

Photo Credit: Sarah Pezdek

Emily Curro, Executive Director, Troy Foundry Theatre. Photo Credit: Richard Lovrich

production portfolios of notable troy foundry theatre work below…

A Shadow that Broke the LighT

A World Premiere Written and Performed by Charlie DelMarcelle
Directed by David Girard
Part of Troy Foundry Theatre’s 2019 What Heroin Sounds Like Outreach Series

Photo Credit: Emily Curro

Scenic Design: Colin McIlvaine
Sound Design: Christopher Collucci
Lighting Design: Colin McIlvaine & David Girard 
Art and Installation: Adam DelMarcelle

Collar Works Art Gallery
Troy, NY

“It is the most moving theater in its intimate particulars I have seen in years… I’m sure I will remember and talk about it lovingly for the rest of my life.”

Patrick White, Nippertown

The Saratogian names A Shadow that broke the Light as one of 2019’s most memorable shows

“Charlie DelMarcelle was magnificent...”

Bob Goepfert, WAMC, Troy Record and The Saratogian

“This presentation is a memorial to shatter the silence of that shame…It is somber and sad and bright and joyful - and very human….The piece reminds us that there is nothing to be ashamed of in being human.” 


Aileen Lynch-McCulloch, B Sharp’s Studio 6

“The performances and the commitment to the material is astounding…”

Bob Goepfert, Critic for the Troy Record, the Saratogian and WAMC,

Yellow

Photo Credit: Sarah Pezdek

A World Premiere Produced by Troy Foundry Theatre
Directed by Brenna Geffers
A commission with Die-Cast Philly

Installation Artist: Doug Greene

The Trojan Hotel
Troy, NY

“A profoundly immersive experience…

The entire cast inhabited their roles completely and individually, and would come together to create a searingly strong ensemble. At times they seemed to move as a singular organism… I applaud Troy Foundry Theatre’s successful mission to create theater that is provocative and immersive, interweaving artists of different disciplines… “
Roseann Cane, Berkshire On Stage

“A Fascinating visual theater experience with its own unique style of production.”

Bob Goepfert, The Saratogian

“It was unlike anything I’ve ever seen before”

Zach Durocher, Chromoscope Pictures

“100 Years is absurdly and darkly humorous, poignant and shot through with addictive, weird portent.”

The Collaborative Magazine

100 Years

A World Premiere by Richard Dresser
Produced Troy Foundry Theatre
Directed by Elizabeth Carlson-Guerin

Photo Credit: Richard Lovrich

Scenic Design: Colin McIlvaine
Sound Design: Jonas Kelsey
Lighting Design: John Romeo

500 Federal
Troy, NY

“This is a talented company who is passionate about the material. They have a committed following and are producing theater in a vibrant community. It’s a perfect fit.”

Playwright Richard Dresser on working with Troy Foundry Theatre

“A smartly acted world premiere…”

Steve Barnes, The Times Union

“Clearly Troy Foundry is in the company of major theater companies by getting a playwright with the status of Dresser to entrust them with his newest play…  The cast is excellent. Each performance is spot-on…”

Bob Goepfert, The Saratogian, Troy Record and WAMC

the Prohibition project: Ilium was

A World Premiere Produced by Troy Foundry Theatre
Directed by Brenna Geffers
A commission with Die-Cast Philly

Installation Artist: Doug Greene
Costume Design: Charlie Barnett

CollarWorks Art Gallery
Troy, NY

“As always with the TROY Foundry Theatre the acting is impeccable from each of the dozen-member casT…in their unison breath, you hear the life force of a city."

Steve Barnes, Times Union

Photo Credit: Richard Lovrich

“Individually, each member of the cast is compelling and when they work as a group there is a coordinated sense of purpose that is dynamic…

Brenna Geffers, a theater artist who has extraordinary vision and a gift of creativity… This event is a marvel of coordination as her direction channels the chaotic nature of this type of simultaneous theater into a whole….
Bob Goepfert, The Saratogian, Troy Record and WAMC

“The Foundry folks want to burn down many conventions of theater. And that seemed just fine with Friday's full opening-night audience, a cross-section of people unlike any I've ever seen at a theater production that wasn't a Foundry show: hipsters, politicians, students, seniors, musicians and a retired doctor or two… The action sweeps… between and among socialists, prizefighters, politicians, labor agitators, immigrants and more, the overlapping narratives often intruding on one another, except at the few times when the company comes together for extraordinary single moments…”
Steve Barnes, The Times Union

Catastrophe Carnivale:
An evening of BecketT

6 Plays by Samuel Beckett
in the Historic Troy Gasholder Building

“Among the remarkable things about Troy foundry Theatre is how the company… exploded into existence with its aesthetic fully formed.”

Steve Barnes, Times Union

Photo Credit: Emily Curro, Brenna Geffers and David Girard

Troy Foundry Theatre 2018
Curated by David Girard and Brenna Geffers
Directed by David Baecker, Brenna Geffers, David Girard, Liz Carlson-Guerin and Katie Pedro

Scenic Design: Colin McIlvaine
Sound Design: Ben Zima
Lighting Design: Ethan Botwick & David Girard 

The Historic Gasholder Building
Troy, NY

“The forever potent speech in Krapp’s Last Tape… seemed to hit this crowd like some heavy weight falling through the gasworks space…

Nostalgia had been summoned only to be rejected (welcome to Beckett). There was silence.”
Michael Coffey, The Beckett Circle

“…the Foundry company is the product of like-minded creative contributors who bring diverse talents and viewpoints to a unified vision…

Troy Foundry Theatre has quickly established that it's good at this sort of thing – hitting us hard with bleak, pessimistic, even nihilistic glimpses of an unpleasant world”
Steve Barnes, Times Union.

New World ORder

8 Plays by Harold Pinter
Troy Foundry Theatre, 2017

Photo Credit: Byron Nilsson

Troy Foundry Theatre, 2017
Directed by David Girard

Set Design: Colin McIlvaine
Lighting Design: Ethan Botwick
Costume Design: Denise Massman
Sound Design: Byron Nilsson

The Meader Theater and Hangar Theater
Troy, NY

“Powerhouse Pinter launches new company... A thematically coherent, dramatically powerful evening of theater… Artistic Director David Girard also does brilliant work directing…

‘New World Order’ has the distilled power of cask-strength whiskey. There’s some welcome unpleasantness going down, and ultimately it’ll knock you for a loop... "
Steve Barnes, Times Union

“Astutely and brilliantly directed…the production is an auspicious debut for the area’s newest professional theater company…

‘New World Order' a fine debut at Troy Foundry Theatre...”
Jeff Haff, The Daily Gazette

“Clearly this is a director and a company in control of its material…

If you are going to start a new theater company, it’s a good idea to define yourself... Troy Foundry Theatre certainly does... The production identifies the new company as one which relishes political theater and is not afraid to embrace the dark and brutal... New World Order is clear and vivid... David Girard effectively captures the oppression of this dark dystopian world and his staging keeps the production smooth and flowing."
Bob Goepfert, WAMC, Troy Record & The Saratogian