Mission & Vision
Waxing Moon represents artists and practitioners of mask making, mask performance, and theatre education. Currently we serve theatre companies, individuals, and universities throughout the United States. Our performances invoke theatrical traditions as old as the moon to launch new ideas and engage audiences of all ages; traditions such as Commedia Dell’Arte, vaudeville, clown, and full-faced mask performance. Our mission is to use mask play and physical theatre to bring theatrical size and direct audience interaction back to contemporary stages. 

The traditional theatre form, Commedia Dell’Arte, is a more than 500 year old genre of popular theatre that uses stock characters and physical comedy. However, the form's inherent harms against marginalized identities and fixed ideas of power have gone largely un-scrutinized for  educational and equity-centered purposes, and those harms are often repeated in productions and classrooms without acknowledging that the form itself perpetuates inequity.