Mettawee River Theater Company

About Us:

The Mettawee River Theatre Company, founded in 1975, creates original theater productions which incorporate masks, giant figures, puppets and other visual elements with live music, movement and text, drawing on myths, legends and folklore of the world's many cultures for its material. The company is committed to bringing theater to people who may have little or no access to live professional theater. Each year Mettawee presents outdoor performances in rural communities of upstate New York and New England as well as performing in the New York City area.The Mettawee River Company has received funding from the National Endowment for the Arts from 1980 to the present and the New York State Council on the Arts from 1978 to the present, with additional grants from the Bickford Foundation, Meet the Composer, the Henson Foundation, the Merck Family Fund, the Fan Fox and Leslie R. Samuels Foundation, the Agostino Foundation, and the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs.