The Mickee Faust Club is a community theater for the weird community. The Mickee Faust Club is not a theater that waits around for permission or even funding. For nearly four decades, we have made space—sometimes literally out of nothing—for artists who are too queer, too disabled, too poor, too loud, too political, or too weird for traditional stages. We focus on producing original work created through our free, open-to-the-public writing workshops, where professionals and novices work side by side. These workshops are the engine of everything we do—encouraging people to develop their own voices through performance in theater, cabaret, radio, video, and live events. Performers learn by doing, writers learn by hearing their work performed out loud, and artists grow by working together across experience levels.

The Mickee Faust Club operates according to an Ethic of Accommodation we have been developing since 1987. This Ethic centers our ongoing creative collaborations on the work of women, queers, people from lower-income communities, and people with disabilities—not as guests, side projects, or “special programs,” but as the primary architects of the art we make and the community we build. We ramped our stages and captioned our shows long before Broadway gave it a thought. Through free workshops, collective creation, and our Ethic of Accommodation, the Mickee Faust Club turns overlooked voices into the main event and proves that accessibility, rebellion, and joy are not opposing values—they’re the same damn thing.