BLACK SHEEP ASSEMBLY

live performance, film, and music lessons for everyone

mission

Black Sheep Assembly brings artists, ideas, and communities together across disciplines. We develop and share work in live performance and film, and invest in our communities through workshops and music lessons.

We believe in fostering curiosity, bold artistic forms, shared processes, and shared spaces.

projects

Bridge between realities (2025)

Interdisciplinary theatre workshop series and research project in Albuquerque, Bath, Philadelphia, and New York.

Soundfishing (2024–2027)

SoundFishing is a touring site-specific, “secret” concert: a special sonic experience embedded in the street’s real fabric, which is experienced by a group of viewers seated behind a shop window.

Cheeks rosy from Slapping (2026)

a new theatrical chamber work in Farsi and English exploring the power, value, comedy, and trap of beauty. Composed and performed by Kimia Hesabi and Tara Khozein.

Safe Passage (2028-2029)

mini-series
A mystical roadmovie and relationship thriller

sliding-scale

Music education (ongoing)

Black Sheep Assembly is committed to income-based sliding scale private music lessons and group workshops. Music education is a basic human right, and everyone is welcome here.

Lambs of God

(2028)

feature film
A U.S.-Hungarian co-production
A period drama about the high cost of staying silent. Inspired by true events.

co-directors

Tara Khozein

founding co-artistic director

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Tara Khozein is an internationally touring performer, improvisor, educator, composer, and theater director based in Brooklyn, NY and Budapest, HU.

She explores classical singing, improvisation, poetry, banter, and pan-idiomatic vocal sounds in concert and theatre settings. As an educator, she specializes in helping her students find freedom through vocal expression at any point in their lives. As a theater director, she specializes in improvisation as a vehicle for co-creation and facilitating collective feedback.

MARTIN BOROSS

founding co-artistic director

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Martin Boross is an award-winning Hungarian film and theatre director pursuing an MFA in Film Directing at NYU Tisch. Since 2017, he has directed six shorts, a feature documentary, and his critically acclaimed debut feature, Raw Material, which premiered in 2024, screened at European festivals, won a Special Prize at the 44th Hungarian Film Festival, and streams on HBO Europe.

He has directed 22 original theater productions including on-stage, site-specific, opera, documentary, and participatory works. His work has been presented in over 40 cities in 13 countries in Europe and the United States.

Our BOARD

Oluwasegun Oyetunde

filmmaker, curator, founding board secretary
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Daniel Felsenfeld

composer, educator, founding board treasurer
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Supportus

Black Sheep Assembly is a tax-exempt non-profit arts institution under the IRS code section 501c3. 100% of your contribution is tax deductible

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