Mandie O’Connell/Knuckle Cartel makes site-specific, experimental performance. We prefer to create work with and for the environment, in locations that exist outside of traditional theater spaces.  Theater is boring.  We don’t fuck with it.  (Which means, in fact,  that we do fuck with it, of course.)  Knuckle Cartel’s work treads on the boundaries between dance, performance, installation, and theater.  Theater is slowly dying, but Knuckle Cartel is not yet dead.  Working with and for collaborators in interesting and complex spaces allows us to draw our dying breaths with integrity and peace.  

Our work is intense, dynamic, tragic, generous, and alive.  

Knuckle Cartel is the undead dame, the bloodthirsty mistress, the unsteady lover, the crying divorcee, and the empty bed.  

Knuckle Cartel makes brave, bold performance work.  We swear we do, really.  And we keep our promises. 

Trust Us.