Welcome to the 48th season!
WE CAN’T WAIT TO BE UNDER THE OPEN STARRY TEXAS SKY WITH YOU!
The 2024 season starts May 17th and continues all the way through November 3rd.
We will share FIVE productions that will blow your socks off!
IT’S HOMEMADE MAGIC, THE KIND THAT MAKES HIP POCKET OH SO SPECIAL.
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Hip Pocket Theatre has been a vital part of the performing arts in Texas since 1976, when founders Johnny Simons, Diane Simons, and Douglas Balentine first staged their interdisciplinary plays under the stars in Fort Worth. Since its founding, the theater has grown its global reach and capacity for genre-defying programming, while staying true to the bold, playful, and magical.
Hip Pocket incorporates dance, mime, music, masks, and puppetry to create a universal language that can tell stories at once childlike and urgent. The scripts, the stage, and the performers at Hip Pocket build on a lexicon unique to its pioneering roots, and each performance is an homage to what it means to create a space for theater.
Hip Pocket honors the new vision of each artistic generation as an unfolding of time. Johnny and Diane’s daughters, Lorca and Lake, now carry the theater’s vision forward with their new directorship. They embody Hip Pocket's evolving vocabulary of storytelling and movement, and as veteran creators for its stage, look to expand its legacy of original, boundary-bending works. As Lorca and Lake bring with them lifelong careers and experience in the arts, they conscientiously seek to prioritize the theater's accessibility, inclusivity, and international reach.
Hip Pocket Theatre, as both experimental playhouse and environmental visual installation, has a long-standing outreach program comprising community based events and enriching healing arts programming. It is dedicated now, as always, to bringing guest artists from around the globe and throughout Fort Worth to collaborate on projects each season. -
Lake Simons, Managing Artistic Director
Lorca Simons, Producing Artistic Director
Johnny Simons, Consulting Artistic Director
Peggy Bott Kirby, Director of Finance and Development
Lauren Riley, Social Media Manager
Rebecca Sinclaire, Administrative Assistant
Ryan Riley, Grounds Manager
Board of Directors:
Holly Nelson Ellman, President
Tracy Stearns Bush, Vice President
Leslie Zvitt, Secretary
Quentin McGown, Treasurer
Jesse Borries
Aaron Butler
Lauren Ivy Chiong
Nikki Deshea Smith
Marian Eastman
Yvonne Duque- Guerrero
Paul Hamilton
Thad Isbell
John Key
Bethany Malone
Brian Pierce
Barbara Wooten Meece
Artistic Advisory Board:
Bruce Balentine
Barbara Busackino
Andy Corren
Alex Cowan
Ellen Mahoney Crouse, PhD.
Tom Crouse
Scott Ferree
Peter Fodera
Deborah Freed
Loli Kantor
Dr. John P. Murphy
Basil Twist
Greg Vore
Joe Waller
Ms. Linda Whittington
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We love our volunteers! Come out and join in! Be part of the action and lend a hand! For more info on how you can volunteer and lend a hand call us or email us.
817-246-9775
Throughout our season we welcome volunteers! If you have experience with box office, as an usher, or would like to help us in any way- we can likely use your help! Contact us at the above number or email us.
GET INVOLVED! BE HIP!
The 48th season kicks off with:
A Twisty Intergalactic Spectacle
It opens May 17th and runs for 3 weeks only! Bonus THURSDAY SHOWS! 9PM. Full schedule here.
Don’t miss this special production made by Basil Twist in collaboration with and amazing team!