THE TRIP was founded in 2012 by Joshua Brody and Tom Dugdale. The company worked site-specifically on many occasions, in locations ranging from a parking garage (Fool for Love), to one of San Diego’s hottest tattoo shops (Three Plays in a Tattoo Shop) where an audience member was (willingly) tattooed as part of the performance, to a former military barracks at NTC Liberty Station (THE TRIP'S Macbeth, All the Rooms of the House). THE TRIP were among the first theater artists in San Diego to create performance at NTC Liberty Station. La Jolla Playhouse generously supported two major site-specific works by the THE TRIP—a backyard barbecue staging of Our Town and Chekhov's Three Sisters on a tennis court. These were cornerstone productions of La Jolla Playhouse's Without Walls Festival. THE TRIP's Orpheus & Eurydice, a multi-platform adaptation of the myth through online content, live performance, and film, was nominated for Best New Play by the San Diego Critics Circle. The COVID-19 pandemic has forced THE TRIP to suspend its activities, at least for now. In 2018, THE TRIP staged its final production before the pandemic at Theaterlab in New York. It was called, fittingly, This might be the end. In 2019, THE TRIP received a Hotel New Work residency from Theaterlab to workshop an adaptation of F. Scott Fitzgerald's This Side of Paradise. We hope to be making work together again soon.
Many of the photographs of our productions that appear on this website were captured by Jim Carmody, our former teacher and friend, whose eye and time we remain endlessly grateful for.
Many of the photographs of our productions that appear on this website were captured by Jim Carmody, our former teacher and friend, whose eye and time we remain endlessly grateful for.
