Lifeboat Productions started because we wanted to do one show, The Black Knight, but the farther we got in this process, the more we wanted it to keep going, 

We’re all very used to superhero stories, but not everyone gets to be Captain America or Wonder Woman, and waiting around for them to help us doesn’t save the world.

We are kept alive in the darkness by the people who organize dance mobs in front of election offices, by nurses who keep going in a pandemic, by the logistics experts who keep our food coming, by clerks who stand up to their bosses, and by the climate scientists who keep sending out their signals in the hope that someone, somewhere will listen.

We started Lifeboat to celebrate the stories of ordinary people who choose kindness, love, persistence, and trust, even when everything tells them to despair. 

Because it wasn’t Wonder Woman who reopened global shipping lanes in 2021. It was a bunch of ordinary people with tugboats and a dump truck, doing what they had been trained to do. 

So we are going to create Hopepunk Theater, because kindness in the face of despair IS radical. 

Choose hope. Try one more time. Reach out for connection. 

We want to tell your stories.