Jobsite realized something with 2021’s Shockheaded Peter (winner of not one but two 2021 Creative Loafing Best of the Bay Awards): we missed devising new work. For our first 10 years, a mainstage slot was dedicated to a new show that brought together the embarrassment of talent the company has available. Jobsite Theater’s ALICE is a brand-new cabaret spectacle based on the writing of Lewis Carroll that fuses live music, visual art, puppetry, aerial and circus arts, and plenty of good ol’ fashioned theater magic in an evening audiences may not be able to simply categorize as a play, musical, or something altogether different, but that they will surely talk about for years to come.

Not content to stop with devising just one new show, Jobsite has also committed to a similar approach to develop Federico Garcia Lorca’s unfinished La Maleficio de la Mariposa (The Evil Spell of the Butterfly) for a bilingual 2023-24 mainstage production.