Antiheroes Project Inc

Fifteen years of theater. More room for everyone.

What does it mean to have a place in the arts? To hear your language, recognize something of your life in a story, or discover a possibility you had never imagined for yourself?

For fifteen years, these questions have shaped Antiheroes Project artistic praxis and philosophy.

Founded in Miami in 2011 by Cuban theater artist José Manuel Domínguez, who is blind, Antiheroes brings artists with and without disabilities together to create theater and expand access to the arts. Our work grows from a personal understanding of the barriers people face, and from the belief that every person who joins the creative conversation brings something no one else can.

Through collaborative, bilingual theater, we bring new stories to the stage and make room for emerging voices. Migration, memory, aging, identity, and belonging run through our work: the things we carry, the places we leave, and the ways we learn to call somewhere home. In Miami, where so many lives unfold between languages and cultures, these stories offer a place to recognize ourselves and encounter one another.

That spirit of discovery also lives in our theater research laboratories and improvisation workshops, where artists explore ideas through movement, language, and shared imagination. As pioneers in South Florida in exploring blind theater techniques, we invite artists and audiences to discover how sound, touch, and the senses beyond sight can open other ways into a story. Invitations to perform at international theater festivals and lead workshops within and beyond the United States have carried these exchanges across borders, bringing new perspectives back to our community.

Accessibility is part of the artistic experience.

A theater experience begins long before the curtain rises. It begins with the possibility of entering a space, following a story, and knowing there is a place for you.

A touch tour can introduce the world of a play through its objects and textures. Audio description can bring a gesture into focus. Bilingual supertitles, assistive listening devices, and Braille and large-print programs offer other pathways into the same shared experience. Onstage, that commitment takes shape through artists with and without disabilities working as creative equals.

This September, our production of Mario Diament’s Cita a ciegas played to sold-out audiences, with some people unable to get seats. In December, we return to the Sandrell Rivers Theater in its larger main performance space. More seats and accessible prices mean more people can enter the world of the play—and share the questions, discoveries, and conversations that continue after the lights come up.

For our fifteenth anniversary, that is the future we are working toward: more room for artistic discovery, more opportunities for artists, and more people sharing in the life of the theater.

Your gift helps write our next chapter.

This year, Antiheroes Project marks fifteen years of creating theater, while Give Miami Day celebrates its own fifteenth anniversary. As these milestones meet, your donation will help us pay artists for their work, bring productions to the stage, expand access and opportunities for people with disabilities, and strengthen the small professional team behind it all.

Every performance holds months of largely unseen work: an idea taking shape, a scene discovered in rehearsal, the patient collaboration that turns individual voices into a shared creation. Your generosity gives that work time and space to grow, helping build a lasting home for bilingual, inclusive theater in Miami.

Join us in celebrating fifteen years of Antiheroes and the joy of creating what comes next!