Theater has always held a mirror to power.
Civic Theater™ hands power the verdict.It is a new American form
performance built not to depict a civic crisis but to convene one.
Where traditional theater stages a story for an audience, Civic Theater™ summons a city into a proceeding: real testimony, local evidence, institutional decision-makers, and the public seated together in a single room where the question can no longer be avoided. The stage becomes a civic instrument. The audience becomes a jury. The performance becomes the most reliable civic technology we have.This is not theater about the community. It is theater the community is tried within..
Civic Theater™ is a performance genre created by Ms. Tam Lawrence and produced exclusively by PIQSTAR INC., PBC. It operates at the intersection of live theater, civic accountability, and community testimony.
Every production is built around a real crisis, a real community, and a real verdict. The audience is never a witness. The audience is always the jury.THE HUMAN VERDICT™ is the first full-scale national touring production in the Civic Theater™ canon.
Lawrence is the playwright, director, composer, and host of THE HUMAN VERDICT™, and the Founder and CEO of PIQSTAR INC., PBC a Wisconsin Public Benefit Corporation building civic media infrastructure across 128 countries. For more than two decades she has written and directed live performance for civic audiences, beginning with Voices in the Dark, her debut production giving voice to children failed by the systems meant to protect them.
A Marquette University graduate, journalist, former Wisconsin State Lobbyist, and broadcaster, she launched Exposure Plus TV in 2019, now serving more than 284,000 subscribers worldwide. Every discipline she has practiced the stage, the newsroom, the statehouse converges in this work.
THE HUMAN VERDICT™ is the production she has been building toward her entire life.
THE HUMAN VERDICT™ will be broadcast on Exposure Plus TV an OTT/CTV streaming platform in continuous operation since 2019, distributed across the world's leading connected television and mobile ecosystems. The civic conversation does not end when the curtain comes down.
The systems that determine human value justice, employment, faith, government, social services, law enforcement were not broken by accident.
They were built by decision. And decisions can be revisited.THE HUMAN VERDICT™ exists because the data has been available for decades. The reports have been written. The panels have convened.
The summits have concluded. And the crisis has continued not because people lack information, but because information alone does not move people. Theater does.Impact the head and you reach the body.™
That is the operating principle of every production under PIQSTAR INC. It is the reason THE HUMAN VERDICT™ was built as a live experience and not a lecture. Accountability requires presence. Presence requires a stage. The stage is this
THE HUMAN VERDICT™ is not a commercial production looking for advertising. It is a civic institution looking for partners who understand that the most durable investment a brand can make is in the community's capacity to see itself clearly. Sponsorship opportunities are limited, exclusive, and sequenced by commitment level.
