OUT OF OMAHA, a new documentary directed by Clay Tweel and exec produced by J. Cole, made its world premiere at DocNYC and won the Audience Award. WRESTLE won the Audience Award and Award for Excellence at Indie Memphis and won Best Documentary at the Denver Film Festival.
October 2018
Firefly closed its off-Broadway return of Geraldine Hughes' BELFAST BLUES. WRESTLE won the Audience Award and Best Sports Doc at Hot Springs and played the Milwaukee Film Festival. Firefly also announced the new Clay Tweel documentary OUT OF OMAHA, making its world premiere at DocNYC.
September 2018
Firefly is pleased to announce a special, two-show, off-Broadway return of Geraldine Hughes' BELFAST BLUES, coming October 22 and 23. October will also include more news on Clay Tweel's next doc with Firefly, along with WRESTLE screening at the New Orleans Film Festival and the Woodstock Film Festival and .
August 2018
WRESTLE played Michael Moore's Traverse City Film Festival and won "BEST ALABAMA FILM" and the "SPIRIT OF SIDEWALK" awards at the Sidewalk Film Festival.
July 2018
CAUGHT was nominated for Stage Raw awards for Production Design, Direction, and Production of the Year.
June 2018
May 2018
Firefly continues post on a new documentary directed by Clay Tweel.
April 2018
WRESTLE premiered at the San Francisco International Film Festival, and press called it "engrossing" and "beautiful and gripping".
March 2018
Firefly's new documentary, WRESTLE, was announced to premiere in April as part of the San Francisco International Film Festival's 2018 Launch Program.
February 2018
CAUGHT was nominated for Los Angeles Drama Critics Circle Awards for both Production and Writing.
January 2018
December 2017
Firefly closed its hit, immersive LA premiere of Christopher Chen's CAUGHT, which earned raves, like Stage & Cinema saying "the terrific actors and creative production team are — once again under the guidance of the always inventive Firefly Theater & Films — bringing you one of the best shows of the year." More info, including more press, is here.
November 2017
The LA Times hailed Firefly's immersive LA premiere of Christopher Chen's CAUGHT a "CRITIC'S PICK...An immersive theater piece that'll have you 'Caught' up...wildly inventive."
October 2017
As part of District 798, Firefly opened its immersive LA premiere of Christopher Chen's Obie-winning play CAUGHT, directed by Ed Sylvanus Iskandar, at Think Tank Gallery.
September 2017
Firefly announced its exciting collaboration with Think Tank Gallery for District 798, a groundbreaking show of new American artwork inspired by China's dissident Xiong collective.
August 2017
Firefly continued work on two documentaries and began to gear up a special collaboration with Think Tank Gallery to present a unique series of performance pieces by China's Xiong collective.
April - July 2017
March 2017
One of Firefly's next documentaries received a work-in-progress screening as a Film Lab Finalist at the prestigious Sun Valley Film Festival.
February 2017
Firefly and Lost Tribe Theatre's NY premiere of JONAH AND OTTO, by Robert Holman and directed by Geraldine Hughes, ran Off-Broadway, garnering praise from press.
January 2017
Firefly and Lost Tribe Theatre ramped up for the NY premiere of JONAH AND OTTO, by Robert Holman and directed by Geraldine Hughes. KENSHO AT THE BEDFELLOW played a special screening at the Rubin Museum of Art in NYC.