Our Mission

We invigorate American performing and visual arts by selecting, developing, and producing exceptional work across disciplines that is created by military, first responder veterans, and their immediate family members.

Through fully produced plays, staged readings, comedy, music, immersive art, and multimedia festivals, Savage Wonder delivers to audiences impactful live performances and gallery shows as whimsical, intimate, absurdist, and jarring as the veteran community that created them.

OUR ORIGIN STORY

Savage Wonder Art Center was born from the success of Veterans Repertory Theater (VetRep), a company founded to amplify veteran voices in American theater. In 2022, VetRep acquired the historic Mechanic Savings Bank in Beacon, NY, transforming it into a permanent artistic home.

As the creative scope expanded—adding visual art, music, spoken word, dance, and more—Savage Wonder Art Center emerged as a distinct and independent entity. While we honor our roots in VetRep, SWAC is now its own beast, dedicated to programming across disciplines and beyond the boundaries of traditional theater.