On The Rocks Theatre Co. is the longtime collaboration of Christopher Ford and Dakota Rose. Together and with an array of artists, they create highly visual work which explores genre, style and storytelling. Past works are McBeth (2010), Wolfert (2015), The White Stag Quadrilogy (2016), FRED (2017), and their annual holiday pageant Edelweiss.  OTR is the current company-in-residence at Ars Nova where they are developing their commissioned piece, The Beastiary. They are also recipients of the 2024-25 Tow Foundation Playwright-in-Residence grant.