Conceived in Brooklyn, NY in 2009, the Gray Lily Project is a collaborative theater company founded by Cherie A. Roberts and Andrew J. Merkel. The Gray Lily Project seeks to collaboratively develop and produce new plays and theatrical events, with a particular focus on multi-media and multi-discipline productions.
The Gray Lily Project believes that theater is art. It must tingle all the senses. Send an electrical current into your toes. Just like a blank canvas, there are no set rules or boundaries except the ones the artists set for themselves. Theater is an open room where every surface is part of the canvas. We want to bring in the artists, have them throw their art at the wall, and see what sticks. Then we’ll bring in some more. And together, those artists will look at what they have created and work together to find and nurture the beauty that has spilled out onto the canvas. Theater is human. It breathes. It needs nourishment just as much as we as do to survive. The energy that true theater creates should be able to topple buildings not just fill a room with applause. It should be more of a human chain than a bound script. Theater is something we experience, not just something we go to see.