What is The Pullman Project...

• Since 2015, The Equus Projects team has been bringing multi-disciplinary performance projects and creative process, written word explorations, music and movement into the elementary schools, public spaces and private homes of the Pullman District.

• The Equus Projects' Artistic Director JoAnna Mendl Shaw and actor and theater director Sarah Rose Graber first visited The Pullman District in 2015, when President Obama had just named Pullman a National Park. Intrigued by this historic neighborhood built by George Pullman to house factory workers at his Palace Sleeping Car Factory, they approached the Pullman National Monument with a proposal that would deploy the arts to bring visibility to this important National Monument. Since then Shaw and Graber have been regular guest artists at Poe Classical and Pullman Elementary.

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• In 2016 the team received an NEA grant to create an immersive theater piece  staged in the drawing rooms and hallways of the historic Hotel Florence. The Hotel Florence: Drawing Room Stories would retell Pullman history through a multi-racial lens intertwining the voices of current residents with historic recounts. Audiences would move through the hotel in small groups, guided by fictional characters, encountering dramatic interludes, visual installations and cameo appearances by Pullman residents.