The TMT Institute is a cohort of artists who seek to radically disrupt and re-examine their existing practice without any goal or expected result.
Each Fellow’s journey is individual. Fellows create their own course as they reinvent, question, and challenge their artistic practice. TMT supports fellows with space, material resources and a $2,000 stipend.
The Institute gathers for three short intensive sessions to help each Fellow advance this process. In between intensive meetings, we meet monthly for breakfast and go on occasional excursions to keep our conversation growing.
After the second intensive, each Fellow is encouraged to define and commit to an exploration that they can pursue outside of group gatherings. Target Margin supports these experiments with resources: space, collaborators, materials, etc. Fellows share their progress and evolution through the duration of the Institute. At the end of the season, TMT hosts an “Open Studio” to invite our community of artists and neighbors to share in what we have been exploring. This is not a performance; it can be a conversation, notes, a demonstration, or simply the Fellow’s presence to discuss their work with anyone interested.
2024/2025 INSTITUTE FELLOWS
Sarah Bellin
Sarah Bellin (she/they) is an internationally active director, producer and musician working across stage, film and opera. Guided by themes of self-empowerment, Sarah’s work explores the interplay of female strength and vulnerability. As Creative Producer, Sarah led the development of BEDLAM’s acclaimed episodic new media series, an innovative Shakespearean mash-up. Sarah has worked extensively throughout Europe including at the Zürich Opera, Berliner Festspiele (Theatertreffen), Zürcher Festspiele, Schauspielhaus Zürich, Stadt Theater Bern, Theater Tuchlaube, Turbine Theater, as well as at the Avignon and Edinburgh Festivals. Co-founding director of the Swiss performance group Kollektiv-20-14 as well as a frequent collaborator with the experimental theatre company stringsaTTached. 2020 SRF/Zurich Film Festival Treatment Award Nominee, 2022 Soho Rep Writer/Director Lab Finalist. Sarah was a 2015 and 2021 Fellow for Artistic Research at the Zurich University of the Arts. MFA in Theater Directing New School for Drama, MA Film Zurich University of the Arts. www.sarahbellin.com
Ana Cantorán
Ana Cantorán (she/her) is a Mexican born, NYC based Theatre Artist and Arts Educator. She is an actress, director, mover, singer, visual poet, collaborator, teaching artist, space holder and passionate theatre creator. She has toured her original works worldwide throughout North and Central America, Europe, Africa and Asia. Her devised work and collaborations have been selected by The Guggenheim, ASSITEJ Cuba,TYA USA, Singapore fringe festival, New Victory Theater, Labworks, Barn Arts Collective, The Quarry: Contemporary Arts International, Up close Festival, Barn Fest, United Solo, Poetic License Festival, Itinerant Performance Festival, Saint Louis fringe festival, Festival of the Death Miquixtli, Teatro en la Alacena, Centro cultural Santa Rosa, 11th and 12th Festival International du Théâtre Universitaire d’Agadir Maroc, and featured by The Tank, Dixon Place, IRT Theater, and more. Ana holds a BFA in Dramatic Arts by BUAP, Puebla, Mexico and an MFA in Theater: Contemporary Performance by Naropa University, Boulder CO.
Alyssa Haddad-Chin
Alyssa Haddad-Chin (she/her) is a Lebanese American playwright, educator, and arts facilitator. Her play, THE NEWLYWED GAME won B Street Theatre’s 2023 New Comedies Festival and received its World Premiere in 2024. She is currently commissioned at Keen Company’s 2024/25 Keen Teens program, a 2024 Playwright-in-Residence at SPARC New Voices, a 2024 Premiere Stages Finalist, a 2024 Leah Ryan Finalist, and a 2022/23 Writing Fellow at the Playwrights Realm. Her work has been developed at NYTW, Athena Project, Art House Productions, and others. She is the Company and Community Manager at Target Margin Theater. MFA: NYU’s Tisch School of the Arts. www.alyssahaddad.com
Carl Holder
Carl Holder (he/him) received a BFA in Acting from SUNY Purchase and an MFA in Dramatic Writing from NYU/Tisch. His play Until You Come Back to Me won the 2020 Goldberg Play Prize and was a Finalist for the 2019 Neukom Literary Arts Playwriting Award. Carl was a Semi-Finalist for The Jerome Fellowship at the Playwrights Center. His play Waiter and Two Octopuses was a Semi-Finalist for the 2019 O’Neill Playwrights Conference and a 2018/19 Finalist for the DVRF Playwrights Program. Charleses received an Honorable Mention for The Relentless Award from The American Playwriting Foundation. Holder has twice been awarded an E-Grant from The Foundation for Contemporary Art. Carl teaches for NYU’s Department of Dramatic Writing, and previously taught/guest lectured for UVA’s Young Writers Workshop, SPARC New Voices, Garden School in Jackson Heights Queens, and the Acting departments of SUNY Purchase and The New School. www.carlholder.com @holderandolder
Faith Zamblé
Faith Zamblé (she/her) is a writer, culture worker, and artist at large, originally from Waukegan, IL. She graduated in 2023 from the (formerly titled) Yale School of Drama with an MFA in Dramaturgy and Dramatic Criticism. She currently thinks of her artistic practice as a kind of weaving, one that is informed by her West African, Caribbean, and Midwestern roots, nurtured by constant inquiry, and distinguished by its love of “not-knowing.” She is always grateful for the chance to tell stories that honor Black people and celebrate Black experimental work. Instagram: @spiralinaaa_
Past Institute Fellows: Avi Amon, Tom Bane, Eliza Bent, Kaaron Briscoe, Stephen Cedars, Tanisha Christie, Sarah Dahnke, Mashuq Mushtaq Deen, Nelson T. Eusebio III, Ben Gassman, CB Goodman, Morgan Gould, Noelle Ghoussaini, Ayun Halliday, Irina Kruzhilina, Brian Lawlor, Cate McCrea, Gulshan Mia, Aaron Minerbrook, Claire Moodey, Kyoung Park, Marie Lloyd Paspe, Yoni Oppenheim, Sierra Ortega, Maleek Rae, Gabrielle Revlock, Barbara Samuels, Cara Scarmack, Jennifer Seastone, Marisol Rosa-Shapiro, Normandy Sherwood, Sylvain Souklaye, Sarah Cameron Sunde, Ari Tabei, Sugar Vendil, Peter Mills Weiss, Sarah K. Williams, Anthony Wills Jr., Brandon Woolf, and Dennis Yueh-Yeh Li.
Header photo by Antony-De Vecchi
More about the TMT Institute
The purpose of The TMT Institute is pure experimentation, with no product-oriented end goal.
The Institute intentionally rejects product-oriented work; Fellows pursue no project, no developmental stage, no result of any kind. Our goal is to create a place where artists set aside their assumptions about creating art and disrupt their established practice. Artists try new ways of working, new disciplines to explore, and new aesthetic goals and principles. We value directionless exploration; we consider misfires, dead ends, and bad ideas to be a fruitful and joyous part of our work.
Who Can Apply?
The Institute is open to artists from any artistic discipline within or outside of theater, and is also open to production, technical, and administrative workers in the arts. Fellows must have an established, existing practice in the arts which they are committed to changing.
Selection Process
Members of TMT’s staff and artistic community will review applications and will invite a handful of folks for an interview to talk more about their artistic practice and interest in the Institute.
Please note that while we meet to share ideas, each Fellow follows their own path of experimentation.
In June 2025 an open studio weekend will share Fellows’ explorations with our artistic community, our Sunset Park neighbors, and the general public. Fellows may describe, discuss or demonstrate their explorations in whatever way suits their work. But this should not be in the form of an audience-attended, time-bounded show.