Young Mammals

The Beginnings

We started with a cohort of nine-year-olds in Toronto in 2006, some of whom have been collaborating with us for over ten years. The Torontonians emerged as a collective subset of our first group of Young Mammals and they created a series of projects throughout Toronto between 2010 and 2015. They are now in their mid-twenties, taking work on the road and developing collaborative relationships with other youth from our long-term engagements around the world.

Mit Ohne Alles emerged in Germany through a multi-year collaboration with the Ruhrtriennale since 2012. Through initial teen-based performance experiments that led to the eventual creation of Teentalitarianism, the group has continued to collaborate, create new work and tour with us.

In 2018, The Mammals of Milan were formed through a long-term engagement with the Milan Triennale and ZONA K. Together, we conceived The Last Minutes Before Mars, which premiered in 2023 and invited audiences into the personal, everyday worlds of the participating youth.

Global Commitments

We also have a commitment to the many other amazing youth we’ve worked with around the world, including the Tottenham upLIFTers, a cohort of young people formed through our long-term engagement in London with the London International Festival of Theatre in 2015; Humboldting!, who we began collaborating with through a multi-year engagement at Berlin’s Humboldt Forum in 2021; and most recently in 2024, our collaboration with youth in Ansan, South Korea in partnership with Ansan Street Arts Festival.

We are always looking for ways to share our skills and knowledge with these fantastic people and get them on the road to help us create and lead projects all over the entire planet.