About Us

Founded in 2017 by playwright/creator Megan Lohne and director/digital-artist Shoshanah Tarkow, Like Fresh Skin is an immersive theatre company synergizing original text-driven narratives and emerging technologies to champion untold feminist stories.  Our projects are born from the kernel of an idea, grown through historical and archival research, and developed into original theatrical experiences.  We specialize in producing work that breaks the constructs of traditional theatre—our projects are interactive, immersive, and site-specific. As a company founded by women, we are particularly interested in telling stories that explore and broaden our understanding of what it means to be a feminist, both historically and today.  

The work we produce is written by Co-Artistic Director and Resident Playwright/Creator Megan Lohne.  Her writing is inspired by extensive historical and archival research on a given subject.  She uses this research to get inside the minds and hearts of her characters; writing women that are fully developed protagonists, not sidekicks or plus-ones.  For example, during the development of ‘Words Like Fresh Skin’ (which tells the story of poetess Edna St. Vincent Millay), Lohne worked closely with the Millay estate to gain access to original documents and first-hand accounts of Vincent’s life. 

We believe theatre should be experienced with all your senses and are actively working to engage our audiences on a visceral level.  One of the ways we actualize this is through the use of new-media and emerging technologies.  For example, during our 2018 production of ‘Words Like Fresh Skin’ at Adelphi University, we wanted to give audiences the experience of being inside the mind of a poet.  To accomplish this, Co-Artistic Director and Resident Director/Digital-Artist Shoshanah Tarkow, designed a soundscape paired with a series of projected videos wherein the words of Millay’s most famous poem danced around the theatre, surrounding the audience in a cacophony of typography and text.

We refer to our work as “experiences” rather than “plays” because our philosophy is that theatre should make you “feel” something.  The experience should be transformative emotionally, intellectually, and viscerally—theatre should feel like fresh skin.