Nerve Tank Media is the brainchild of Melanie S. Armer and Chance Muehleck. Based in New York and founded as a company that produces live performance, NTM has evolved to encompass different modes of contemporary storytelling and entertainment. We collaborate with actors, designers, and other skilled creatives in a spirit of artistic adventure. Our theatrical work often combines elements of popular culture, mediated image, and physical presence to test lines of engagement between spectator and live event.We've staged shows at such venues as Dixon Place, University Settlement, Incubator Arts Project, the World Financial Center Winter Garden, the Grace Building Plaza, and La MaMa ETC. Our short films have screened at festivals worldwide, including FilmQuest, HollyShorts, the Portland Film Festival, and Interfilm Berlin. The company has been featured in the New York Times, American Theatre Magazine, and the Village Voice, and our production of The Maiden was nominated by the New York Innovative Theatre Awards for Outstanding Performance Art Production in 2014.