POCKET CHANGE
Theater by Mail
2024

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POCKET CHANGE is an anthology of eleven short plays your coins perform for you. Housed within a small cardboard theater, named Lin-coin Cent-er, the plays use literal coins as the actors. The complete project consists of this theater, a small booklet containing the plays and associated notes, and a series of backdrops created for each of the plays. Basically, POCKET CHANGE is an intimate piece of toy theater that can be performed by anyone, anywhere.

Originators 

The playwrights anthologized in POCKET CHANGE are:

• jose sebastian alberdi
• Jonathan Alexandratos
• Dan Daly
• John Michael DiResta
• Anisa George and three six-year-olds
• Bryan Halperin
• Nikolai Mishler
• Clay (Claire) Moodey
• Grace Oberhofer
• Andrew Rincón
• Ashley Lauren Rogers

The designers  anthologized in POCKET CHANGE are:

• Gaya Chatterjee
• Caitlin Ayer
• Jacquelyn Guiterrez
• Laura Valenti
• Jessica Emerson
• Dahlia Al-Habieli
• Shiny Skunk
• Lex Gernon-Wyatt
• Chris Raintree
• Thomas Lauria
• Jess Goerold

Performance history

The first run of POCKET CHANGE was released in May 2024, with 26 copies for collaborators and 25 copies available for the general public.

An additional 60 copies of POCKET CHANGE were created for, and  presented at, the Newburgh Fringe Festival in October 2025. The copies not given out at the festival were made available to the general public.