{{Short description|Theater artist collective}} {{Infobox theatre group | name = Radiohole | image = Radiohole-group.jpg | image_size = | caption = Maggie Hoffman, Ilan Bachrach, Eric Dyer, Scott Halvorsen Gillette, Jon Okabayashi, Erin Douglass, Andreea Mincic, and Amanda Bender at The Bessie Awards | formed = 1998 | disbanded = <!-- {{End date|YYYY|MM|DD}} --> | genre = | location = New York City, New York, United States | num_members = | notable = | website = {{URL|http://radiohole.com}} }}
'''Radiohole''' is a collective of artists that have created devised performance works since 1998.<ref>{{Cite web |title=C6 – 08 – RADIOHOLE – MARIAN BARANOVA – JEREMY BARKER – Chance-Magazine |url=https://www.chance-magazine.com/portfolio/c6-08-radiohole-marian-baranove-jeremy-barker/}}</ref> Radiohole was founded by Erin Douglass, Eric Dyer, Scott Halvorsen Gillette, and Maggie Hoffman, and has been described by The Drama Review as “the quintessential American performance group".<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://direct.mit.edu/dram/article-abstract/51/4%20(196)/156/42134/Dicking-Around-with-Radiohole-Toward-Hyperreal?redirectedFrom=fulltext|title=Dicking Around with Radiohole: Toward Hyperreal Performance and Criticism | TDR/The Drama Review | MIT Press}}</ref>
In 2000, Radiohole and The Collapsable Giraffe founded the Obie Award-winning space The Collapsable Hole in Williamsburg, Brooklyn.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.artforum.com/columns/claudia-la-rocco-at-the-collapsable-funeral-218002/|title=Claudia La Rocco at the Collapsable Funeral|website=Artforum}}</ref> The artist-run venue has since relocated to Westbeth in NYC's West Village.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.timeout.com/newyork/theater/collapsable-hole|title= Collapsable Hole|first=David|last=Cote|website=Time Out New York}}</ref>
As of 2026, Radiohole has created 17 original full-length shows and numerous short pieces.<ref>{{Cite web |title=American Theatre Ensembles Volume 2 |url=https://www.bloomsbury.com/us/american-theatre-ensembles-volume-2-9781350214767/ |website=Bloomsbury}}</ref> Venues at which Radiohole has premiered / performed work include: The Kitchen, PS122, The Performing Garage, La Mama, and Walker Art Center.
In addition to their own work, they have collaborated with other artists - for ''Tarzana,'' they commissioned initial text from writer Jason Grote <ref>{{Cite web |last=Tran |first=Diep |date=2015-07-21 |title=Radiohole Returns to Gooey Form With ‘Tarzana’ |url=https://www.americantheatre.org/2015/07/21/radiohole-returns-to-gooey-form-with-tarzana/ |access-date=2026-01-10 |website=AMERICAN THEATRE |language=en-US}}</ref> - and have provided a forum for other artists to present work, such as 2023's EXPOSURE show, which included performances by Paris Alexander, Julia Mounsey, Alex Tatarsky, and Peter Mills Weiss, among others.
They have also provided internships for other artists - Young Jean Lee credits Radiohole with providing an opportunity for her to learn how to direct: "Through NTUSA, I met a company called Radiohole... I interned with them for two years, going to every single rehearsal, every single performance, and that’s how I learned how to direct." <ref>{{Cite web |last=admin_bm |date=2012-09-01 |title=An Interview with Young Jean Lee |url=https://www.thebeliever.net/an-interview-with-young-jean-lee/ |access-date=2026-01-06 |website=Believer Magazine |language=en-US}}</ref>
== Works == Original works by Radiohole:
* ''Bender'' (1998) * ''A History of Heen'' <ref>{{Cite web |last=Voice |first=Village |date=1999-08-03 |title=Psycho Analysis |url=https://www.villagevoice.com/psycho-analysis/ |access-date=2026-01-11 |website=The Village Voice |language=en-US}}</ref> (1999) * ''Rodan'' (1999) * ''Bend Your Mind Off'' (2000) * ''NONE OF IT'' (2002) * ''WURST'' (2002) * ''RADIOHOLE IS STILL MY NAME <ref>{{Cite web |title=BOMB Magazine {{!}} Radiohole by Barbara Browning |url=https://bombmagazine.org/articles/2012/01/01/radiohole/ |access-date=2025-12-25 |website=BOMB Magazine |language=en}}</ref>'' (2004) * ''FLUKE <ref>{{Cite news |date=2006-04-29 |title=Radiohole's 'Fluke' Splashes Around in a Sea of Ambiguity (Published 2006) |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2006/04/29/theater/reviews/radioholes-fluke-splashes-around-in-a-sea-of-ambiguity.html |archive-url=http://web.archive.org/web/20221126061335/https://www.nytimes.com/2006/04/29/theater/reviews/radioholes-fluke-splashes-around-in-a-sea-of-ambiguity.html |archive-date=2022-11-26 |access-date=2025-12-25 |language=en}}</ref>'' (2006) * ''ANGER/NATION <ref>{{Cite news |last=Haddad |first=Natalie |date=2008-11-01 |title=ANGER/NATION |url=https://www.frieze.com/article/angernation |access-date=2025-12-25 |work=Frieze |language=en |issue=119 |issn=0962-0672}}</ref>'' (2007) * ''WHATEVER, HEAVEN ALLOWS <ref>{{Cite news |date=2010-02-24 |title=If Douglas Sirk and Milton Walked Into a Bar and Started Trading Yarns (Published 2010) |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2010/02/25/theater/reviews/25whatever.html |archive-url=http://web.archive.org/web/20250716071458/https://www.nytimes.com/2010/02/25/theater/reviews/25whatever.html |archive-date=2025-07-16 |access-date=2025-12-25 |language=en}}</ref>'' (2009) * ''INFLATABLE FRANKENSTEIN <ref>{{Cite web |last=Brantley |first=Ben |date=2013-01-06 |title=Mayhem Oozes From the Womb |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2013/01/07/theater/reviews/radioholes-inflatable-frankenstein-at-the-kitchen.html |website=www.nytimes.com}}</ref>'' (2013) * ''MYTH OR METH'' (2014) * ''TARZANA <ref>{{Cite web |title=Radiohole {{!}} THE PERFORMING GARAGE |url=https://theperforminggarage.org/radiohole/ |access-date=2025-12-25 |language=en-US}}</ref>'' (2014) * ''HOLLYWOOD DOLLS (HULL I HODET)'' (2016) - with the Norwegian Theatre Academy * ''TV PARTY'' (2017) * ''NOW SERVING'' <ref>{{Cite news |last=Fishman |first=Howard |date=2019-11-15 |title=WHAT'S COOKING? |url=https://www.artforum.com/columns/howard-fishman-on-radioholes-now-serving-245383/ |access-date=2025-12-25 |work=Artforum |language=en |issue= |issn=}}</ref> (2019) * ''HAPPY HOURS''<ref>{{Cite web |title=Happy Hours {{!}} Radiohole |url=https://www.onassis.org/video/happy-hours-radiohole |access-date=2026-01-11 |website=www.onassis.org}}</ref> (2020)
== Production == Presented by Radiohole: * ''ISOLATION: A group show of new work made during the pandemic'' - 2021 * ''EXPOSURE: A group show of performance works exploring the body'' - Prelude Festival, 2023 <ref>{{Cite web |title=Exposure at PRELUDE 2023 - Martin E. Segal Theater Center CUNY |url=https://www.thesegalcenter.org/prelude-2023/exposure |access-date=2026-01-06 |website=Segal Center CUNY |language=en}}</ref> * ''FAUST'' - 2023 (by Eric Dyer) * ''HAMLET'' - 2024 (by Christopher Rashee Stevenson)
== Recognition == * Spalding Gray Award, 2009 <ref>{{Cite web |title=spaldinggray.com {{!}} SG Awards |url=https://www.spaldinggray.com/sgawards.html |access-date=2025-12-25 |website=www.spaldinggray.com}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |title=PS 122 Honors Radiohole with Spalding Gray Award {{!}} Playbill |url=https://www.playbill.com/article/ps-122-honors-radiohole-with-spalding-gray-award-com-158814 |archive-url=http://web.archive.org/web/20210302210648/https://www.playbill.com/article/ps-122-honors-radiohole-with-spalding-gray-award-com-158814 |archive-date=2021-03-02 |access-date=2025-12-25 |website=Playbill |language=en}}</ref> * A 2013 ''Wall Street Journal'' survey of 40 New York-based theater artists placed Radiohole third in a list of companies and venues they felt most deserved funding, after New Dramatists and The Chocolate Factory.<ref>{{Cite news |last=Simon |first=Lizzie |date=2013-01-09 |title=Funding Theater With Imagination |url=https://www.wsj.com/articles/SB10001424127887323936804578229821944379136 |access-date=2026-01-11 |work=Wall Street Journal |language=en-US |issn=0099-9660}}</ref>
== External links == * [https://www.radiohole.com/ RADIOHOLE] * [https://thehole.site/ Collapsable Hole] * ''[https://www.onassis.org/video/happy-hours-radiohole Happy Hours]'' (online work commissioned by Onassis Foundation)
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Category:American artist groups and collectives Category:Theatrical organizations based in the United States Category:1998 establishments in New York City