From Dan Hoyle whose work has been hailed as “riveting, funny and poignant” (New York Times) and “hilarious, moving and very necessary” (Salon) and directed by celebrated theater artist Aldo Billingslea, comes Takes All Kinds, a funny and essential new piece of Journalistic Theater that has been touring the country and resonating deeply with audiences and critics alike.

Based on immersive reporting from the trenches of democracy, Hoyle’s shape-shifting performance delights and mesmerizes, as audiences meet more than a dozen remarkable characters, all based on real people and real conversations. 

Among the characters audiences meet:

–A Gen Z working-class Christian socialist from Colorado who uses humor to disrupt the grievance-based politics of his co-workers.
–A former gang-member from Chicago turned social worker who deradicalizes violent extremists in Missouri.
–A preacher’s son who switched to the religion of Phish and finds purpose in Florida school-board activism after his daughter comes out.
–Atlanta voting rights canvassers who win over the apathetic and apolitical with riveting family stories and a penetrating, comic honesty. 

Takes All Kinds channels powerful, funny and complex people caught in the social forces roiling the country. In tender portraits of everyday Americans turned unlikely changemakers, it offers hope and ways forward in these tumultuous times.