The Transversal Theater Company (TTC) is a nonprofit organization of American and European artists based in Amsterdam. Founded in 2003 by Bryan Reynolds, Lonnie Alcaraz, Douglas-Scott Goheen, and a number of other artists, TTC is an experimental theater company known for creating original performance works that explore charged social, cultural, conceptual, and political realities of today through the combined social-cognitive theory, performance aesthetics, and research methodology known as Transversal Poetics.[1] The products of this praxis (combining theory and practice) or practice research (practice-as-research) approach have been various and far-reaching, including a theory of acting and design aesthetics.[2] TTC has toured productions to festivals and other venues in the United States, Europe, the Middle East, and Asia, such as to the national theaters of Poland[3] and Romania, Armenia's HIGH FEST,[4] Romania's National Theatre Festival, Sibiu International Performing Arts Festival,[5] and Interferences Festival,[6] the Gdansk International Shakespeare Festival.[7][8][9] TTC's core members and contributing artists have included Robert Cohen,[10][11] Gary Busby, Lonnie Alcaraz,[12] Niels Horeman, David Backovsky, Sky Reynolds, Shira Wolfe,[13] Laila Burane, Christopher Marshall, Saskia Polderman, Luke Cantarella, Alan Terricciano, Christa Mathis, Kayla Emerson, Karyn Lawrence,[14] Amanda McRaven, Michael Hooker,[15] Stan Limburg, Henk Danner, Matthias Quadekker, Babette Holtmann, Mathieu van den Berk, Erik Lint, Alex Hoffman, Sam Kolodezh, Jon McKenzie, Saviana Stănescu,[16] Gosia Lorenz, Emilia Simeonov, Vinnie Olivieri,[17] Sammie Dasia Moore, Jacob Dovan Nguyen, Richard Brestoff, Bob Boross,[18] Oscar Seip,[19] Jessica Dunn, James Intriligator, Jesús López Vargas,[20] and Merle DeWitt III.[21]