FELLOWS
Satellite Fellows 2025
"The Company We Keep" Theatre Productions
LATINA THEATER PRODUCERS FOSTERING OPPORTUNITIES
Empowering and amplifying emerging voices
In response to changing demographic and social fabric of our country, The Company We Keep Theatre Productions (TCWKTP) was founded in 2023 to provide a vital space for emerging and diverse theatre artists to present culturally immersive innovative theater.
TCWKTP’s goal is to produce excellent theater with unique and intimate stories that identify with the various communities we embrace; as well as supporting and nurturing the current and future artists within our communities. We work to create theater as a vehicle to foster the growth of artistic presence and opportunities in theater and increase community engagement in the arts in the diverse borough of Queens. We aim to enhance the artistic opportunities within the community, reach a wider community audience, and partnering with local theaters and communities.
In 2024, we presented our inaugural play production “Constellations” which was nominated for an HOLA award for “Outstanding Achievement in Theatrical Design”.
MEET THE COMPANY
Producers of Innovative Theater
Soraya Sussman, Co- Founder, President / CEO, Producer and Writer
Maria Isabella Rojas, Co-Founder, Vice President /CCO, Producer and Writer
Alexis Isabella Sussman, Co-founder, Co-Founder, Vice President, Producer
As three Latina artists-entrepreneurs, we came together and founded TCWKTP to provide a vehicle to expand the stage for a new generation of artists and theatre goers to collectively enrich and empower the impact of storytelling.
ICE FACTORY
A dramatic play developmental reading for its future stage production set for 2026
ICE FACTORY is TCWKTP original work in our play development program written by company co-founder Soraya Sussman. Ice Factory is an intimate and raw portrait of two people living during the height of the AIDS epidemic in the late 1990’s. This nonfiction-drama explores the brutal realities of a community navigating loss, love and refuge.
It retells the compelling historical and social impact of addiction and AIDS in our society through the lives of two forsaken people trying to accept who they are. This story needs to be told for us to understand how the human spirit can be deeply affected by devastating circumstances, such as AIDS, addiction and loss.
ICE FACTORY has been awarded the 2025 Queens Community Arts Grant, funded by the New York State Council on the Arts (NYSCA) in support of our developmental dramatic reading. This grant will propel Ice Factory one step closer towards its stage production in 2026. We are proud to represent and support fellow artists and organizations that live and work in Queens and use arts and culture to enrich and enliven our community.
For more information about future events and ways to support or collaborate, please email TCWKTP@gmail.com
