about
tongue in cheek theater (tic) is an Off-Off Broadway theater company dedicated to producing seriously funny theater.
Our mission is to tell stories which resonate with universal truths, and which make our audiences laugh in recognition of these truths.
tic's inaugural season kicked off in early 2006 with Paula Vogel's Baltimore Waltz, followed by Wearing Me Down, a collection of three one-act plays presented by Prospect Theater Company's Dark Night Series in October 2006. In 2007, tic associate-produced Sure Thing and Variations on the Death of Trotsky with Merete Muenter. 2008 saw a revival of A.R. Gurney’s Love Letters and a sold-out run of Five Flights by Adam Bock. In 2009 the company expanded its production schedule, with Recent Tragic Events by Craig Wright at the end of February, Up a River/Down the Aisle by Jake Lipman in two summer festivals, Psych by Evan Smith for two weeks in September, and the inaugural Plus 1 Solo Show Festival during the dark nights of Psych.
In April and May 2010, tic produced the Tony and Pulitzer award-winning play Proof by David Auburn, as well as the Spring 2010 Plus 1 Solo Show Festival. About tic’s production of Proof, NYTheatre.com raved, “This production is first rate. Auburn’s story is given vivid life by a quartet of talented actors ... exceptional.” The production was nominated for a 2010 New York Innovative Theater Award for Outstanding Sound Design.
In October 2010, tongue in cheek theater productions is pleased to present the New York Premiere of William Missouri Downs’s Dead White Males. Running concurrently will be the Fall 2010 Plus 1 Solo Show Festival.
As the late, great Peter Ustinov said, “Comedy is simply a funny way of being serious.”
Jake Lipman, artistic director
