Vampire Cowboys Theatre Company

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Vampire Cowboys Theatre Company is an Obie Award and Caffe Cino Award winning [1] NYC downtown theatre company first established in 2000, with a mission towards the creation and production of theatrical events based in stage combat and dark comedy with a comic book edge. They began on the campus of Ohio University, moving to NYC in 2002. The company has been a resident company at Center Stage, NY (2005–2008), HERE Arts Center (2009–2010), Incubator Arts Project (2011–2013), and The New Ohio Theater & IRT (2013–2015). The company is led by artistic director Qui Nguyen and Robert Ross Parker. Past productions include the cult Off-Off Broadway shows: Geek!, The Inexplicable Redemption of Agent G, Alice in Slasherland, Soul Samurai, [2] Fight Girl Battle World, [3] Men of Steel, [4] Vampire Cowboy Trilogy, [5] and Living Dead in Denmark, [6] which featured special effects by Chuck Varga, co-founder of the shock rock band GWAR. The first theatre company to ever be sponsored by New York Comic Con, Vampire Cowboys is often credited for being the pioneers of "Geek Theatre", [7] a subgenre of theatre that often incorporates action-adventure, sci-fi, gaming, and/or comic book themes into live theatre. The company was praised by The Village Voice as "New York's Best Army of Geeks". [8] The Vampire Cowboys had their work documented in a doctoral dissertation on martial arts on the American stage from Tufts University in 2011. [9]

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  2. ↑ "Soul Samurai - Time Out New York". Archived from the original on 2009-03-04.
  3. ↑ "Broadway, regional and discount theater tickets | News, reviews, and more". 26 January 2023.
  4. ↑ "Theatre & Broadyway Show Review: Show Business Weekly: Men of Steel". www.showbusinessweekly.com. Archived from the original on 2007-05-13.
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  6. ↑ "NEW YORK CITY THEATRE REVIEWS - Living Dead in Denmark". www.backstage.com. Archived from the original on 2007-09-30.
  7. ↑ "The playwright's the thing". thevillager.com. Archived from the original on 2012-01-18.
  8. ↑ "New York Best Army of Geeks - Vampire Cowboys - Best Of New York - Village Voice". www.villagevoice.com. Archived from the original on 2010-10-24.
  9. ↑ Langsner, Meron (2011). Impossible Bodies in Motion: The Representation of Martial Arts on the American Stage. Tufts University. p. 209.
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