It's a place where you can take risks.  Where you can dare to fail.  Not       because failure is your goal, but because you learn the most by            attempting greatness, even if you don't quite achieve it.  No Shame is a place where fear of failure will not keep you from trying to succeed.

It's a place where the new becomes the now.  Where something fresh out of your mind can be shared with an audience without a selection        committee, advisory board, or literary manager in between. 

It's a theatre in a truck--or at least that's how it started.  A low budget, low tech environment that's had performances under street lights, in courtyards, lobbies, parks, classrooms, bars, churches, and even on real theatre stages.  Wherever there is light enough for a script to be read and room for people to watch, No Shame can happen. 

It's a convoy of trucks that has driven around the world, parking in places like Iowa, New York, Florida, Illinois, Texas, North Carolina, Alaska, Ohio, Virginia, California, even England!  Each No Shame is individual, and made up of more individuals, but all are communities where absolute beginners work side by side with grizzled veterans of the theatre, and where you can get hands-on experience in every aspect of production--writing, acting, directing, design, even arts administration. 

At No Shame anything can happen and usually does.  The full range of performance is open to you.  On any given night you might see a poem, a dance piece, a puppet show, a monologue, a mime routine, stand-up      comedy, a song, improvisation, jugglers, and a magic act--all followed by a delightful ditty on a hand saw.   A kind of  "open mic" for the theatre with only three basic rules--that the work be original, less than 5 minutes long, and not break any laws.   It's so simple a child could do it...and has.

No Shame's audience, performers, and writers are constantly changing roles in a single evening, fostering a spirit of cooperation--not              competition.  No Shame is different from other theatres because anyone can walk in the door the first night and participate in any way they choose.  No Shame isn't something you join; it's something that by just being there you are already helping to lead.