About the Altruistic Theatre Company New York, NY

Geoffrey and Brock met in 2006 while working for a retail company in midtown Manhattan. After many conversations about their work and discovering that Brock was pursuing directing, Geoffrey approached him with a proposition to direct the production of "This Is Our Youth". As their professional collaboration developed they both found a strong common purpose, standing for the same-shared ideas and a drive to create the allegoric type of material that has influenced them for so many years. This concept began the Altruistic Theatre Company.

Brock H. Hill decided to become a director while in college. As a performance major at Southern Illinois University, he came under the tutelage of William Grivna. Grivna's passion for direction and experimental theatre was quite an influence on him. Brock found, though, that most people see experimental theater as over their heads or too "artsy." As the artistic director of the Altruistic Theatre Company, his goal is to shatter that by bringing works that not only entertain but hopefully inspire as well.

Geoffrey Payne has been pursuing his passion for acting since he was just a child. After high school he began a three-year protozoa training under Lanny Mitchell in Danbury, CT for musical theatre. After moving to Manhattan Geoffrey assisted in Hip-Hop/Funk dance courses for Bev Brown at the Broadway Dance Center while attending on-camera classes throughout the city. In late 2005 he started his two-year full-time training with the Stella Adler Studio of Acting and graduated in 2008.

The Altruistic Theatre is a new company with experimental and conventional roots. We are dedicated to exploring the symbolic and extraordinary dimensions that are expressed in the figurative traditions of storytelling.

Our goal is to fill the company with people that are like-minded. We want to collaborate with other playwrights, authors, designers, choreographers, actors, and directors who are in this field for the work, not for the fame or fortune. We want individuals that feel that they are called to do this not just out of choice but because this is what they have to do. We want people that bring validity to our purpose, serving the play and its characters in the hope that we will make a difference in our current society.

The material that we are typically drawn to is allegoric stories that stimulate the mind and inspire people to look at the world differently. We want to discover and create stories and characters that show us the multiple levels of meaning which are contained in any human experience while leaving the audience with a common shock of recognition.

We hope to show the public a new perspective, a different way to look at the world. We don't want to hold up a mirror to the audience; we want them to choose to pick it up themselves.

For us to make all of this possible, we need your support and the support of the community.

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