How it all started
Rebecca & Roy realized early on in their friendship that they had a shared love of theatre despite coming from very different creative backgrounds. At the time they met, Rebecca was getting her Yoga Teacher Training certification and trying to figure out how to combine her more traditional acting background with her yoga teachings to create more sustainable theatre. Roy, on the other hand, was coming from comedy and sketch scenes as a writer and director and was seeking a creative community in the theatre world that lasted beyond individual productions.
Rebecca and Roy gravitated toward shows with small casts where the characters felt like real people discussing topics that were challenging but honest. After working together on a play where Roy wrote and directed, and Rebecca performed, they realized they also liked to create theatre in the same way - with care and attention to the artist's well-being throughout the process. They combined forces to bring their unique skills together to create a theatre company based on mindfulness, community, sustainability, and theatre that reflects our shared humanity.
Dirty Gold creates dynamic, provocative, character-based theatre that comments on contemporary society and our shared humanity. We foster a diverse community of artists by providing opportunities for exploration and development. We infuse every aspect of our creative process with a unique focus on mindfulness and the well-being of our artists, resulting in sustainable, intentional, and elevated theatre.
Supporting the mental and physical well-being of our artists.
Building a community of artists who learn and grow with one another.
Creating a healthy balance between being playful and productive.
Facilitating affordable and accessible art.
Fostering diversity in all realms; all voices are welcome and encouraged.
Meet the Dirty Gold Team
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Rebecca Greaves (she/her)
Co-Founder & Executive Director
Rebecca Greaves is a queer theatre artist originally from Massachusetts. She holds a BA in Theatre Performance and an MA in English Literature from Tulane University, where she began cultivating a practice that blends movement, experimentation, and storytelling. Rebecca spent a decade deeply rooted in the New Orleans theatre community before relocating to Austin, TX. After becoming a certified yoga teacher through Practice Yoga Austin, she started to combine her yoga and theatre training to support a more sustainable, mindful, and playful approach to performance. She is focused on creating provocative, character-centered work that prioritizes artist well-being and community connection.
Email: rebecca@dirtygoldtheatre.com
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Roy Lazorwitz (he/him)
Co-Founder & Artistic Director
Roy Lazorwitz was born and raised in the great state of New Jersey and dropped out of community college twice before moving to Astoria, Queens to pursue the life of a starving artist. Since that time he has gotten the chance to write, direct, produce and perform across many different mediums. Ingraining himself into the comedy scenes of New York, Boston and Austin with a specialization in storytelling, sketch comedy, and variety. Roy has always focused on building strong collaborative communities and the punk ethos of anything worth doing is worth doing yourself.
Email: roy@dirtygoldtheatre.com
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Joe Kelley (He/Him)
Technical Director
Joe Kelley is an Austin resident with a passion for collaboration and storytelling. He has been active in the Austin performing arts community since 2014 as a designer, educator, scenic artist, director, technician and performer with local companies including: Pollyanna Theatre Co., The Archive Theatre, Summer Stock Austin, Bottle Alley Theatre Co., and ACC Drama.
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Kahla Brown (she/her)
Lab Director
Kahla Brown grew up doing theatre in Austin, Texas, where she attended McCallum Fine Arts Academy before earning her BFA in Theatre from the University of the Arts in Philadelphia...she would have dual-minored in Creative Writing and Musical Theatre if she had filled out the forms. After working in theatre and film, Kahla became disillusioned with the industry’s often harmful dynamics and shifted her focus toward practices that cultivate resilience, presence, and sustainable creativity. A 500-hour certified yoga teacher, she facilitates mindful, community-centered workshops. As Lab Director at Dirty Gold, Kahla blends artistic inquiry with contemplative practice to create spaces for experimentation, connection, and care.
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Sam Kins (she/her)
Marketing Director
Sam Kins is a Visual/Mixed-Media Artist creating abstract figurative works and writings in Austin, Texas under the moniker StudioKollisions. Her work delves into themes of gender exploration, queerness, and complex identity through unconventional depictions of femme bodies. She regards the integration of new mediums—a continuous evolution within her artistic process— as an opportunity to inform and amplify her works’ voice. She is focused on fostering creative community, the storytelling of underserved experiences, and inspiring vulnerability.