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Fear and Wonder Living Ticket donations
We’re proud to say that Fear & Wonder represents the third Flux production where all our contributors are making an hourly minimum wage (or equivalent fee). This was a longtime goal for Flux, and we’re grateful to every foundation and individual donor who made it possible. If we sell out every seat at an average of $26 per ticket, we'll make the Current Budget of Fear & Wonder without dipping into our reserve funds.
Yet we know a minimum wage is not enough. As part of our Core Value of Collective Care, Flux is committed to ensuring all of our collaborators’ financial needs are met, and that means working toward a living wage, using the MIT Living Wage Calculator as an estimate. If we sell out every seat at an average of $53 per ticket, we'll make our Living Wage Budget and increase compensation levels for every collaborator working directly on Fear & Wonder.
Many of our Creative Partners, however, volunteer many hours of unpaid labor to support Flux's overall operations and the production of Fear & Wonder. We estimate around 420 hours of volunteer Creative Partner labor will go into making Fear & Wonder possible. If we sell out every seat at an average of $66 per ticket, we'll make our Holistic Wage Budget and ensure that every Creative Partner is compensated, increasing the longterm health of our ensemble.
Flux Theatre Ensemble
This past year has been one of abundance. From the immersive installation of Portal Project to the devised movement piece The Elephant Play to the practical creativity of The Go Bag Plays, Flux continued to expand our Aesthetic of Liberation. Amid the industry wide decline in new play development, programs like Core Work and our Annual Retreat supported 29 new works in 2025, bringing us over 500 projects developed in Flux’s history.
With your support, we can bring our exciting 2026 slate of projects to life, including:
- Fear & Wonder, by Jason Tseng, will receive a world premiere full production in June 2026. In this forbidden love story, Jabez and Ryan, two boys of color, navigate a Christian summer camp together in the early 2000s.
- Portal Project, an immersive installation and ritual performance that imagines a world where the pandemic never happened, returns in March 2026 to build on 2025’s successful workshop with a fully realized experience.
- Creative Emergence, an art crawl meets high school science fair meets block party, will host a full-day exhibition of creations and experiences generated by our theatre+ community.
- Workshops of new works by our Creative Partners, including Miranda Holliday, Montserrat Mendez, Kristen Palmer, and Adam Szymkowicz, will be announced soon.
Learn about past and upcoming projects and productions here.
Thank you for believing in the liberatory power of theatre and for helping Flux thrive as we head toward our 20th anniversary season.
