Lost Girls Theatre was founded in 2012 by Andie Arthur and Katherine Siegel. The idea came out of a conversation about Doctor Who at a baby shower -- where both Arthur and Siegel realized that they wanted theatre that evoked what they liked about Doctor Who -- tapping into the audience's imagination and sense of wonder.
Their first event was "Super Shorts! An Evening of General Geekery," which featured staged readings of short geeky plays from local and national playwrights, in 2013.
Starting in 2014, Lost Girls Theatre partnered for two years with the Deering Estate to produce the Getting Lost Reading Series, which was a series of staged readings of full-length plays that fit the mission of the company and featured a variety of voices and stories -- from a dark lesbian retelling of Little Red Riding Hood to a 70's punk retelling of the Persephone and Hades myth to a retelling of Faust as a gay romantic comedy.
In 2015, the company had its first production, which was Andie Arthur's Dinner at the End of the World at MicroTheater's Festival of Local Theatres. Dinner at the End of the World was about the four horsepeople of the apocalypse at Denny's right before the end, complete with jokes about Keith Richards still being around and Emily Dickinson and Death having an affair. The show was so successful that it was brought back by MircoTheater Miami for a second run.
In 2016, Lost Girls Theatre had its first production of a full-length play -- Arthur's Juliet Among the Changelings, which was a young adult lesbian fairy tale. The play ran for two weekends at Main Street Players in Miami Lakes and was sold out for the last two performances of the run. In her review for South Florida Gay News, Mary Damiano wrote "The writing, performances and all other elements in Juliet Among the Changelings establish Lost Girl’s Theatre as a forceful new player on the South Florida theatrical landscape."
In 2017, Lost Girls Theatre joined the national The Future is Female Festival, presenting a selection of short plays by 11 female playwrights -- seven professionals and four high school students. Lost Girls Theatre was joined by 26 other theatres around the country to celebrate female, trans, and gender non-conforming voices.
In 2018, the company partnered with Villain Theater in Miami to do Petite Plays, which was a happy hour event on the 2nd Friday of the month, before Villain presented their traditional stand-up and improv lineup. Lost Girls presented dozens of short plays, primarily by local playwrights, to audiences who didn't normally go to traditional theatre.
While Lost Girls Theatre has been dormant during the COVID-19 pandemic, we are in the process of relaunching with two interconnecting audio dramas called "Where and When?" As we move forward, we want to look to alternative ways of theatrical storytelling that help us achieve our mission of creating a sense of wonder.