VitalSaenz Productions is alternative theater.
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VitalSaenz Productions is an organization started to create alternative theater entertainment with the goal of bringing stories to audiences in innovative ways.
We are an anti-racist organization and are dedicated to including at least 50% people of color or alternative populations (LGBTQIA+, disabled) in our membership. We are working to make high quality and professional art in a collaborative and cooperative way.
MICHAEL López Sáenz
ARTISTIC DIRECTOR/Producer
Michael López-Sáenz is a Boston area theater artist and educator. He is an actor, director, producer, playwright and teacher. He has worked off-Broadway as a performer, director, playwright and producer and in New York City as a teaching artist. He currently teaches high school theater on the North Shore. He is also the author of “The Thousand Natural Shocks,” a novel that has been adapted for the screen, the stage and currently as a serial podcast. He is excited to be creating art with his husband of nine years (twenty altogether), and to be creating art in the town of Lowell.
tim palin
promotions DIRECTOR
Tim is a Boston/NYC-based Creative Director specializing in Art Direction, Design, Production, Photography and Illustration. Clients include Scholastic Inc.; Little Bee (Bonnier); Capstone; Albert Whitman & Co.; Cantata Learning; The Book Shop Ltd. (for Race Point Publishing, Sterling Innovation, Thunder Bay Press); PrintMatters (Lonely Planet Kids); Insight Editions; Enchanted Lion; Mason Crest; Girl Scouts of America; Mango and Marigold Press (formerly Bharat Babies); Tighe (Houghton Mifflin, National Geographic); DuoPress and Free Spirit Publishing.Tim lives in Lowell, MA with his genius husband Michael and three canine interns Edith, Lavinia and Steve.
RECENT SHOW/WORKSHOP
FALL 2021
A Crime in a Madhouse
or, The Diabolical Ones
On the eve of her release from an insane asylum housed in a convent, young Louise begs to be released without spending one last night there. The doctor will not let her go, insisting that no harm will come to her by spending one last night. But Louise fears the woman from Normandy and the hunchback, her two roommates who have taken an obsessive interest in her…especially her eyes. And what of the mysterious One Eye, unseen and supposedly paralyzed in the next room? As the night comes Louise’s fear builds.
Card To
Culture
We are proud to participate in Mass Cultural Council's Card to Culture program in collaboration with the Department of Transitional Assistance, the Department of Public Health's WIC Nutrition Program, the Massachusetts Health Connector, and hundreds of organizations by making cultural programming accessible to those for whom cost is a participation barrier.
EBT, WIC, and ConnectorCare cardholders receive unlimited $5 tickets to any show. See ticket buying instructions for current shows.
See the complete list of participating organizations offering EBT, WIC, and ConnectorCare discounts.