"Listen, Darren, I want you to think very carefully about what you're going to say, and then decide whether it's something you should say or not."
_Jude Bloom, "In Control" (early draft)
One or two people have asked me, "Why did you name your site/your collaborative team what you named it?" For starters, let's look at the "team" part. Practically speaking, a creative team is the best word for what it is that we are. Two fixed members, Greg Kerestan and David Mahokey, form the heart of the group, with a third major collaborator, Tony Marino, who has cowritten two of our three shows and directed the premiere productions of all three. And yet, we are not a theatre company ourself- one of our shows was produced in association with the Stage Right! company, and the other two produced directly BY them, but we do not belong directly to them. (Additionally, the "team" moniker is something of a homage to Team Starkid, who functioned as a writing collective that grew into a performance and production company of their own, a model that I am not at all averse to.)
As far as the "In Control" part of our title, well, that part was mostly practical. We spent nearly three years working on the show that became "In Control," and by the time we started working on another project, people had begun referring to as as "the people who brought you In Control." Although we flirted with the idea of other names, nothing stuck: "Team Burrito Burro" was too silly, and while Kerestan and Mahokey had the structure and style of classic collaborative partnership names, it left out the possibility of functioning autonomously or with other collaborators while still remaining "part of the brand." So Team In Control stuck, and it's what we've moved forward with.
As far as the "In Control" part of our title, well, that part was mostly practical. We spent nearly three years working on the show that became "In Control," and by the time we started working on another project, people had begun referring to as as "the people who brought you In Control." Although we flirted with the idea of other names, nothing stuck: "Team Burrito Burro" was too silly, and while Kerestan and Mahokey had the structure and style of classic collaborative partnership names, it left out the possibility of functioning autonomously or with other collaborators while still remaining "part of the brand." So Team In Control stuck, and it's what we've moved forward with.