About the Festival

VoxLab

Founded under the original title of "VoxFest" in 2013 by Matthew Cohn '08, Kate Mulley '05, and Thom Pasculli '05, VoxLab is a laboratory and a performance platform for the development of the daring, the innovative, and the unique. Dartmouth alumni spend a week in residence on campus, workshopping current projects and works-in-progress alongside current students and faculty. With a focus on devised theater and the experimental performance experience, VoxLab offers current students the opportunity to immerse themselves in contemporary theatrical practices and trends.

Current students participate in Voxlab as part of THEA 65: Summer Theater Lab, a remarkable and unique academic class offered by the Department of Theater each summer that also includes performance and production work on the Frost/Dodd Playwriting Festival and the New York Theater Workshop.

More on recent VoxLab Seasons:

VoxLab 2026

VoxLab 2025

VoxLab 2024
VoxLab 2023
VoxLab 2022
VoxFest 2020
VoxFest 2019
VoxFest 2018
VoxFest 2017

Current VoxLab producers are Nicolle Allen '16 and Matthew Cohn '08.

 

VoxLab collage

 

VoxLab collage VoxFest 2021 View the full performance schedule

VoxLab collage VoxFest 2021 View the full performance schedule

 

VoxLab 2024 Production Team

 

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Lillian King '07 (Artistic Director) is a director and artistic administrator, who has worked in many roles at many theaters--from summer stock to Broadway. Lillian is currently the Artistic Director of Vox Theatre which produces VoxLab at Dartmouth College. In 2015 she moved to Toronto and has directed many musicals for the Lower Ossington Theatre, Bravo Academy, and assisted Ann Hodges on Grey Gardens with Musical Stage Company. In the 14-15 season Lillian served as Assistant Artistic Director and Director of Education at Northern Stage in Vermont, where she also directed Blithe Spirit and co-directed Songs for a New World. Before that she was the Assistant Director on Rocky Broadway at the Winter Garden Theater  Peter and the Starcatcher at NYTW, on Broadway, and was Associate Director for the First National Tour. Lillian worked for seven summers at the New London Barn playhouse as a director and Assistant Artistic Director. She reviewed her MFA from Boston University in 2014 and her Undergraduate degree in Theatre and Psychology from Dartmouth College in 2007.

 

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Matthew Cohn '08

Matthew Cohn (Executive Director) is a New York-based artist, whose work explores authenticity, artifi ce, and the collaborative relationship to the viewing audience. His background is in theater, where he worked for many years as an actor, producer, and audiobook narrator, before turning to photographic and installation-based art. He is the co-founder of Vox Theater, and the producer of VoxLab. He received his BA from Dartmouth College, and his MFA in Photography from the Pratt Institute. www.matthewcohn.com