Rorschach Theatre announces its 2025 KLECKSOGRAPHY event: Vox Populi, Saturday, August 16 at 6 PM and 8 PM and Sunday, August 17 at 3 PM and 5 PM at George Washington University’s Corcoran Flagg Building.
KLECKSOGRAPHY is an annual one-weekend-only event featuring seven new 10-minute plays inspired by a single piece of visual art in the George Washington University’s Brady Art Gallery. Audiences can visit the Gallery before the show and then take in the 90-minute performance in the Armand Hammer Auditorium. (All performances feature the same 7 plays.) Scripts will feature themes and characters from Rorschach’s 2025 Psychogeographies Project, Vox Populi. (Previous knowledge of Psychogeographies is not essential for enjoying KLECKSOGRAPHY.)
Inspired by the ink-blot test for which Rorschach Theatre was named, KLECKSOGRAPHY invites 30 of the DMV’s most exciting emerging theater artists to write, revise, stage and rehearse the plays in just one week.
The painting that will serve as the visual inspiration for 2025 will be revealed August 9 at the Artists’ Kickoff. In previous years’ KLECKSOGRAPHY events inspirations included Norman Zammit’s The Hard White Edge and Leo Villareal’s Multiverse, both on display at The National Gallery of Art.
Play-creation teams have been curated from an open call for actors, directors, and playwrights in order to minimize typical barriers for underrepresented artists. The project serves as a way to bring visibility to early career artists, catalyst connections and build community ensuring emerging artists put down strong roots in the nation’s capital.
Rorschach is thrilled to partner with GW’s Corcoran School of the Arts & Design and The Luther W. Brady Art Gallery to present KLECKSOGRAPHY: Vox Populi 2025 in the historic Corcoran Flagg Building. Designated a National Historic Landmark, the building was designed by noted American architect Ernest Flagg in the Beaux-Arts style and opened in 1897 to house the expanded Corcoran Gallery of Art.
PLAYWRIGHTS: Jaya S. Basu, Molly Brennan, Abby Dunbar, Ezinne Elele, Elliott Kashner, Sarah Marie Wilson / DIRECTORS: Daniel Brody, Allyson Currin, Bri Houtman, Youri Kim, Nancy Linden, Alessandro McLaughlin, Jacob Yeh / ACTORS: Nessa Amherst, Hansin Arvind, Ingrid Bork, Hannah Chester, Tristin Evans, Ally Fenton, Aja Goode, Lillian Grace Hall, Cammiel Hussey, Brooke Kemph, Emily Kile, Alexander Kim, Charlotte Kim, Ali Lightfield, Paul Pelletier Jr, Katie Quinn, Danielle Lauren Rhodes, Shannon Rodgers, Sedona Salb, Hannah Taylor, Daniel Zanchettin, Hui Zhu / PRODUCERS/CURATORS :Jenny McConnell Frederick and Randy Baker
KLECKSOGRAPHY: Vox Populi, presented by Rorschach Theatre Company, runs August 16-17, 2025, at George Washington University’s Corcoran Flagg Building, 500 17th St NW, Washington, DC 20006. Tickets are $20 ($15 for students) and available online.
ABOUT RORSCHACH THEATRE COMPANY
Through uncommon uses of environment and intimate passionate performances, Rorschach Theatre seeks to lure its audiences beyond the limits of ordinary theatrical experience so that they may discover new elements of their own humanity.
Rorschach Theatre tells stories that allow for innovative design and visceral performances. The company treats productions as “installations” that surround the audience with the world of a play. Our work centers on the intersection of magic or impossible moments and relatable human experience. Without proselytizing, it provides a complex, intellectual catalyst for self-exploration of challenging subjects. Rorschach is also a vital launching pad for emerging artists. By trusting early-career actors, directors, playwrights and designers with substantive artistic responsibilities, and surrounding them with established professionals and ample resources, the company has become an essential showcase for new talent.
Rorschach has produced more than fifty plays seen by tens of thousands of people in the Washington area. The company has been nominated for over a dozen Helen Hayes Awards; won a Mary Goldwater Award; been a finalist for the Mayor’s Arts Award; and have been the recipients of multiple grants and awards from the DC Commission on the Arts and Humanities. The company’s work has garnered the attention of The New York Times, The Washington Post, American Theatre magazine and National Public Radio, as well as countless local publications.
