United States
MISSION
A Host of People is a multi-racial Detroit-based ensemble theater company creating original work that celebrates imagination, complexity, and the synthesis of seemingly disparate elements—at once epic and intimate, political and personal, poetic and approachable. AHOP exists to create aesthetically rigorous, intellectually challenging theater that is warm, welcoming, and inspiring to people from all walks of life. We choose our subject matter and themes carefully with an eye to stories, topics, and aesthetic approaches that will be equally thrilling to the most adventurous theater fans as well as those with less exposure to the form. This is how A Host of People moves people: we play with the light and the dark; the head and the heart.
EQUITY
Since its inception, A Host of People has been committed to creating theater that is fundamentally rooted in justice. We believe in creating a theater that reflects the world we want to live in and celebrates a diversity of race, ethnicity, gender, sexuality, physical/mental/sensory dis/ability, class, national origin, body type and size, religion, language, cultural heritage, age, and aesthetics. We work towards this wide spectrum of representation in both our collaborators and our audiences and always strive to create spaces of creativity that are brave, challenging, and generative. We seek partners, colleagues, and collaborators who are like-minded in their commitment to anti-racism and anti-oppression work and who will help us stay mindful of these base values. We commit to the unflattening of our identities, pushing back against assimilation, and bringing our whole selves to the process.
PROGRAMS
In addition to our productions, we also partner on special projects and offer a variety of education programs, most notably, the La Carpa Teen Ensemble for Latiné youth between 12-18.