About New Paradise Laboratories

New Paradise Laboratories (NPL) is an ensemble-based performance company that explores innovative means of expression to bend and reshape the art of theater. Founded by OBIE award-winner Whit MacLaughlin, it sees theater as a perceptual lens into another world—an alternate reality—fraught with beauty and unpredictability.

New Paradise Laboratories works both inside and outside of conventional theater spaces. Sometimes it installs performance into unlikely places: on the internet, in smartphones, or in a library. NPL practices a collaborative model of creation that incorporates designers and performers as devisers.

GUMSHOE Credits

Conceived and Developed by: New Paradise Laboratories
Creators: Whit MacLaughlin^† and New Paradise Laboratories, Tassos Stevens (Coney), Lauren Feldman, Jorge Cousineau^†
Director: Whit MacLaughlin^†
Experience Designer: Tassos Stevens (Coney)
Writer: Lauren Feldman
Production/Media/Sound Designer: Jorge Cousineau^†
Production Manager: Nick Jonczak
Costume Designer: Katherine Fritz
Prop Design: Alicia Crosby
NPL Ensemble Core Creators: Kevin Meehan^†
Performers: Nia Benjamin, Jeffrey Cousar, Camilla Dely, Jessica Johnson, Jenson Titus Lavallee, Kevin Meehan^*† and Jo Vito Ramírez
Stage Managers: Maya Neville and Nicole Labadie-Bartz

^* Actor appears through the courtesy of Actor’s Equity Association, the union of professional actors and stage managers in the United States.
^† Company Member