Trying to explain Dead White Zombies is no easy task: the local avant-garde theater troupe isn’t just avant-garde: they’re wild. They challenge everything you think you know about the arts. 

—Dallas Observer

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You’ve never experienced theater quite like the Dead White Zombies.

—D Magazine

Thomas Riccio, Poo Pah Doo

We are malcontent theatre, performance, visual, sound, and installation artists, ironic & fun-loving agent provocateurs in an age of intellectual and cultural leveling, conformity, franchise, and mass marketing to the lowest and most banal common denominator.

We simply do things the way we want to, where, and how, because we don’t know what else to do. We emphasize new, experimental, site-specific, collectively created performance work that defies categories and conventions.

We are Dead because we are White, pale reflections of what was once. We are Zombies because we are still walking around, empty, searching for meaning, thinking we are still alive.

Founders: Luke Lafitte, Lori McCarty, Brad Hennigan, & Thomas Riccio

The Dead White Zombies places the pedagogy of mythology and anthropology at the center of Dallas culture, blending the city's politics, pastimes, and social structures with the cosmology of classical paganism and a range of shamanistic traditions, both ancient and contemporary.

—Glasstire, Texas

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