Theater in Quarantine (TiQ) is an Obie and Drama League Award–winning hybrid performance laboratory dedicated to expanding the definition of live theater through digital technology. Founded in 2020 by Joshua William Gelb from an 8-sq-foot closet in the Manhattan's East Village, TiQ creates work for both in-person and remote audiences, embracing constraint, foregrounding process, and broadening access to viewers everywhere.

In 2022, TiQ expanded from a remote-only model with its first hybrid performance at the New York Public Library for the Performing Arts at Lincoln Center, integrating simultaneously in-person and remote audiences. Since then, TiQ has continued to develop and tour work that shifts between hybrid and digital, forms — including The 7th Voyage of Egon Tichy (Under the Radar, created with Sinking Ship Productions in partnership with New York Theatre Workshop and Lucille Lortel Theatre), the Untitled Miniature installations at HERE Arts Center, and a series of digital horror productions commissioned and presented by NYU Skirball.

During the first two years of the COVID-19 pandemic, Theater in Quarantine was led by Founder Joshua William Gelb and Co-Creative Director Katie Rose McLaughlin, collaborating remotely with over one hundred artists. Presenting partners included The Invisible Dog, New Georges, Theater Mitu, La MaMa, CultureHub, CulturalDC, among others. In recognition of TiQ’s pioneering digital work, the Library of Congress acquired the company’s 2020–21 archive for its COVID-19 Response Collection.

TiQ has been featured on NPR’s All Things Considered, Japan’s NHK TV, been profiled in The New Yorker and in The New York Times. A five-time New York Times Critic’s Pick, TiQ was named one of Vulture’s “Top 10 Best Theater Moments of 2020” and the NYTimes’ “Best Theater of 2021.”

TiQ is supported by NYSCA’s Support for Sponsored Organizations and individual donors.