FADlab Mission
Fictionalized Auto Drama Laboratory exists to help performance artists hone their own creative processes in order to actualize the possibilities of sharing their own brave stories.
FADlab Vision
We believe in a world where shame cannot thrive in the light of bravery and truth.
What is Fictionalized Auto Drama?
Taken from the literary genre of auto fiction and the medium of dramatic arts, simply put, fictionalized auto drama is an autobiographical story combined with fictional elements told through performance.
What is FADlab?
FADlab, currently in association with Windmill Arts, is a creative process experiment that exists to help professional performance artists develop and hone their own written and somatic processes while creating brave new work. We believe that brave and personal creative processes thrive best with a trustworthy map—developed by the artist themselves.
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In order to fully realize, shape, and share the possibilities of telling our own brave stories, we are choosing to fictionalize our personal encounters through an absurd or surreal performance convention. FADlab's experiments, from idea to production, from practicum to program development, exhists to help storytellers, narrative performers, and influencers shape their own brave stories.
Why tell "brave" stories?
​"Brave" is "to endure pain." While pain and endurance are relative to an individual practice, we believe that essentially, bravery is growth. When we participate in brave stories, we collectively increase our empathy—the core of what it is to be human.
FADlab believes brave and entertaining stories are the difference between surviving and thriving in a continuously evolving, empathetic, competent, and dynamic greater consciousness created with curiousity and cultural humility.
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FADlab is sponsored in part by:
