The mission of the company is to raise awareness of relevant topics concerning the human experience and to create a low-barrier entry point into the performing arts allowing for a dialogue on the crossing point of education and theatre.
Lost & Found Project is an award-winning theatre project, founded in 2011 as a multidisciplinary theatre experiment by Anya Zicer and a group of NYC-based actors, dramaturgs and artists. L&F is a docu-theatre company that creates original stage productions, immersive theatre experiences and educational programming based on the Verbatim theatre and applied theatre techniques.
The company creates their work through a laboratory process, in which we work with immigrant communities and refugee groups exploring the human experiences through the performing arts. We work with documented testimonials for plays which are constructed from the stories spoken by the participants and their surrounding communities via interviews and research about a particular event or topic in a form of a reportage which is used to construct the given piece. We partner with local NYC based hosting theatre institutions such as LaMaMa Experimental Club, New York Theatre Workshop, Theatre for The New City, Gene Frankel Theatre, The Players Theatre.
The mission of the company is to raise awareness of relevant topics concerning the human experience, to create a low barrier entry point into the performing arts allowing for a dialogue on the crossing point of informal experiential education and theatre. In our dynamic L&F laboratories, the sense of our inherited journeys collides with our objective reality, and our current experiences are in a struggle with the individuality of each storyteller.
L&F has received per project support from leading foundations and donors such as: Marks JCH of Bensonhurst, COJECO, Genesis Philanthropy Group, Fooksman Family Foundation, UJA Federation of New York, National Yiddish Theatre Folksbiene, and is currently fiscally sponsored by Fractured Atlas.
IT ALL BEGINS WITH A MAP OF YOUR IDENTITY. MAYBE YOU CAN FIND YOURSELF WITHIN IT.
ANYA ZICER
Anya Zicer is the founder of the Lost & Found Project. Anya is an actor, theatre artist, curator, and facilitator devoted to creating original actor/participant-driven performance works.
As a theatre maker, she is primarily interested in challenging traditional angles of perspective through multilayered, multidisciplinary visual theatre that uses narrative, storytelling, movement, and the performance itself as a metaphor for the human experience. The facilitation of a laboratory setting allows for amplifying important pivotal moments in time, transferring them onto the stage. Anya believes in the synergy between education and theatre and considers it to be the best instrument to investigate personal narratives.
Born in St. Petersburg, and raised in Tel Aviv, she currently lives and works in NYC. Anya works as an actor with acclaimed theatre directors such as Dmitry Krymov, Alexandre Marine, and Gera Sandler and has completed courses with Konstantin Raykin (The Higher School of Performing Arts) and Anne Bogart, on the Viewpoints Movement Technique. Anya came to the US at the age of 16 and after graduating from AADA (American Academy of Dramatic Arts), founded Lost & Found Project, an ensemble-based laboratory theatre company working with the verbatim documentary theatre technique. Anya currently works on multiple projects both as an actor as well as a theatre curator.
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