Our Mission: Glass Half Full Theatre innovates performance structure and audience experience with original works featuring humans and puppets. Our work elevates environmental and social justice issues with a focus on Latiné communities. Our bilingual performances cross linguistic and cultural boundaries towards the heart of the imagination, where artists and audiences examine how oppressive power structures work and how they can be overcome.
Our Vision: to contribute to a sustainable, equitable community framed by a dynamic understanding of multicultural stories and the communities they uphold.
Glass Half Full Theatre has created original performance in Austin, Texas since 2011. Our local performances have served over 40,000 audience members, and our touring performances have toured around Texas and nationally, performing for more than 100,000 people at 50+ performing arts venues in over 30 states.
Our key constituencies identify as Latine, Multilingual, Youth and Family, and LGBTQIA+. We serve these constituencies with opportunities for artistic participation through workshops and collaborative discussion, and performances that represent their stories with care and complexity. Our performances cover topics including global and local environmental injustice, gender rights, Queer narratives, and diverse Latine experiences. Since 2019, the majority of our work has been bilingual Spanish/English.
Our productions are developed by the Producing Artistic Directors (Gricelda Silva, Caroline Reck, and Khristian Mendez Aguirre) in collaboration with a team of contracted artists (actors, puppeteers, composers, choreographers, and designers.)
All listed shows represent original devised work by Glass Half Full Theatre
