About

TIC is thrilled to be returning to performance of thought-provoking comedies in NYC following the pandemic. We look forward to seeing you at the theater!

Our mission
To create and produce thought-provoking comedies. All productions feature women-led stories with majority female-identified casts and crews.

Our history
Since its founding in 2006, TIC has produced 40 productions in New York City, showcasing a range of new and established works, on topics as diverse as interfaith romance, feminism, gender parity, LGBT rights, mental illness, and shifting family dynamics. And they're comedies!

TIC's season is typically comprised of two full-length plays with multi-week runs in the spring and fall, or, in an incubator year (2014, 2015, 2018), the creation of a new work with a longer run in the fall.

Recent highlights include: 2 Puffin Foundation Ltd grants for the creation of new works Relentlessly Pleasant (2018)  and Buffalo Heights (2014), 3 nomination for Ruby in the Planet Connections Theatre Fest 2018, 4 nominations (1 win) for our revival of Buffalo Heights in the Planet Connections Theatre Fest 2017, 2015's world premiere adaptation of The Inn at Lake Devine, based on the novel by Elinor Lipman, NYC premieres of Books on Tape (FringeNYC), Women Playing Hamlet, and Dead White Males (all by William Missouri Downs).

TIC's 2010 production of Proof was nominated for a New York Innovative Theater Award for Outstanding Sound Design.

Many of TIC's premieres of solo shows have gone on to festivals around the world, following their premieres in TIC's twelve Plus 1 Solo Show Festivals since 2009.

Producing Artistic Director

As producing artistic director of TIC, Jake Lipman (she/her) has produced more than 40 productions since 2006, with the mission to produce and create thought-provoking comedies. 

For TIC, she has directed a dozen plays, including the world premiere of Relentlessly Pleasant in 2018, which she also wrote, devised Buffalo Heights (world premiere 2014, revived in the Planet Connections Fest 2017 with 4 best in fest nominations), adapted The Inn at Lake Devine from page to the stage in 2015, as well as revivals of plays like Mauritius, How I Learned to Drive, and Our Town.

In 2022, she joined the Directors Lab North in Toronto, Canada. She received her Masters of Fine Arts from the Actors Studio Drama School at the New School and her Bachelor of Arts from Smith College. www.JakeLipman.com

Our Commitment

Tongue in Cheek Theater Productions is committed to telling stories in a way that is just and respectful. We acknowledge the land politically designated as New York City is the homeland of the Lenape (lenapehoking), who were displaced as a result of the European settled colonialists.
L-R: Shana Wiersum and Nate Washburn, Books on Tape (FringeNYC 2011)
L-R: Brian Roach, Michael Edmund, company, and Shelley Little in Our Town (2012)
L-R: Michael Gene Conti and Reiss Gaspard, The Drunken City (2011)