the theatre company, right?
Blank Conversations is a theatre company that bridges high quality entertainment with accessibility. By uniting talent, education, and vulnerability, Blank Conversations creates spectacles that leave audiences believing what they’re seeing. Even better: it’s all because of the people we bring into the room.
Despite performing on the same street as nearly three-other theatre companies in Las Cruces, the experience of a Blank Conversations production is unlike any other. No two-shows are ever alike, and they’re entirely a product of the people who make them happen. It’s our goal to ensure that audiences walk away seeing the greatest show of their lives, even before it’s over.
Our holistic approach in making theatre worth attending and participating in is ensuring it remains accessible with one simple thought: If the door of opportunity to see or be a part of the theatre is closed, then you just make a new door for everyone else.
our story
Blank Conversations Theatre Company (also referred to simply as Blank Conversations) was founded in the summer of 2019 by the following: Gus David Sanchez, Bryan Berard, Peyton Womble, Diego & Frankie Gomez, Eva Cullen, Collin Duffey, and Benjamin Muckenthaler. Either recently-graduated or current high school students, the team behind the inception of Blank Conversations banded together to try something out. They felt dejected from the theatre community at large, and found themselves at odds. Some were finding themselves a part of these exclusive cliques, while others were outright rejected from them. So, rather than trying to change within these decade-old institutions, they took a shot at starting their own thing.
That summer, the gang launched a Kickstarter-campaign for their first production: The Last Five Years. Despite a handful of eighteen year olds trying their hand at presenting their own productions with a musical about divorce, the campaign received more than its initial goal in a matter of weeks. What was supposed to be their first show turned into their third, being proceeded by a sold-out, improv show with comedy veterans, and their first actual production taking place in the former Sugies’ Diner with The Ultimate Christmas Show (abridged).
When the company’s production of The Last Five Years wrapped in late-February of 2020, what felt like a meteoric rise suddenly halted. Like any other performing arts organization, Blank Conversations closed up and held on until it could figure out what was next. That then turned into a collaboration with the New Mexico State-based radio station KRUX 91.5 to present radio-plays. ensuring that artists in the community still had some form of creative work. When that all wrapped up neatly in 2021, Blank Conversations got a call from the City of Las Cruces: They wanted the company to present a show to re-open it’s historic Rio Grande Theatre in the summer of 2021. Thus began it’s long-term partnership with the city and the theater.
Despite only being around for a little under seven-years (including the Covid year), Blank Conversations has presented forty-one events and productions as of March 2026. Despite its years of ups and downs, highs and lows, Blank Converstaions has brought everything to the table for Las Cruces. Musicals such as Alice by Heart, Jesus Christ Superstar, American Idiot, Once, and Singin’ in the Rain. Plays such as The Play That Goes Wrong, What the Constitution Means to Me, Lend Me a Soprano, The Importance of Being Earnest, Meteor Shower, and The Woman in Black. Blank Conversations’ repertoire now includes Shadow Casts such as Rocky Horror, Moulin Rouge!, The Lost Boys, Scott Pilgrim vs. The World, and Dr. Horrible’s Sing-a-Long-Blog; as well as our famous Brews with the Bard, a series of Shakespeare with drunken actors including Romeo & Juliet Get Trashed, Tipsy Twelfth Night, Tanked Taming of the Shrew, Hammered Hamlet, and A Midsummer Night’s Western. And so, many, more.