Our Story
Founded in 1998 by Lois Kagan Mingus and Joanie Fritz Zosike, Action Racket Theatre is a small company with big hopes to excite you about the power and importance of theatre.
Lois and Joanie believe theatre is like a family. From the moment you walk in the door where an Action Racket Theatre workshop is held, you become a lifetime member of an “instant theatre company,” and are free to express your dreams, hopes, and sense of humor in a safe environment.
Action Racket Theatre performs and presents workshop and programs for a diverse group of organizations. Performances include your participation because an audience is the most important ingredient of a show. Lois and Joanie want to share their love of theatre with aspiring actors and curious audiences from 3 to 103. No experience necessary!
In May 2002, the New York Public Library published True Stories of Everyday Life, a play created by young adults from the Francis Martin Library Action Racket Theatre company. In 2006, Joanie and Lois collaborated with The Museum Team in its collective creation of It’s About Me at Brooklyn Children’s Museum, as part of the Cultural Explorers Saturday Program at Brooklyn Children’s Museum. In 2010, Action Racket Theatre received a grant from Bronx Council on the Arts for its collaboration with CenterLight (formerly Beth Abraham Adult Day Healthcare) in its Bronx tour of Words From the Melting Poet…a saga about immigration, culture and heritage. Action Racket Theatre also performed a special Halloween edition of The Magical Castle of Now at the Monster Mash at Brooklyn Children’s Museum.
Action Racket Theatre makes frequent appearances at New York Public Library, Westchester Public Library, Brooklyn Children’s Museum, Manhattan Children’s Museum, Head Start, 6th Street Avenue B Garden, PS131, United Adult Ministries, CenterLight and Lenox Hill Neighborhood House Second Sunday Series.
