PROTO-TYPE

Proto-type are a company of multi-disciplinary artists led by Rachel Baynton, Gillian Lees, and Andrew Westerside... Proto-type was founded in New York City by Peter S. Petralia (1997-2006), relocating to Lancaster's Storey Institute (2006-2010) and Manchester's Northern Quarter (2010-2014). They are now based in Lincoln's Cathedral Quarter and are making and supporting work across the region... We've been making work and supporting young artists in the US, the Netherlands, Russia, China, Armenia, France, Zimbabwe and the UK since 1997. Critics have called our work ‘an intriguing brush with altered reality' (New York Times), ‘Smartly intelligent… coolly reasoned theatre' (The Guardian) and ‘enthralling' (Zambezi News).