The Hotel Savant, a theatre company based in New York City, explores the livid, the uncertain, the magical and sublime: the seminal ideologies of history and mythology and their impact on contemporary narrative.

Recent work includes Men Go Down: Part 3 – Black Recollections, an original work by Artistic Director John Jahnke, which premiered in January 2011 at 3LD Art and Technology Center as part of Performance Space 122’s COIL Festival. Created in part through residencies at 3LD, The MacDowell Colony, Abrons Art Center and The Park Avenue Armory, Men Go Down is a strange and provocative trilogy that utilizes the construction of a Greek drama and the sensibility of a classic Fairy Tale to examine the ramifications of antique guilt on the modern conscience. Part 1 - Alas, The Nymphs, will premiere in 2012.

Other recent works include Jahnke's highly stylized The Archery Contest, initially created as a radio play for Art International Radio (AIR), which premiered at Performance Space 122 in fall 2009. It was also developed in residency at 3LD, working with a design team that included Miranda Hardy, Andrew Schneider and Obie winners Kristin Worrall and Peter Ksander. 2010 Henry Hewes Set Design nominee.

Other works include Antonin Artaud's The Cenci, which premiered at The Ohio Theatre in 2008, in a new translation by Richard Sieburth. The Cenci was created in part through residencies at The Watermill Center and The MacDowell Colony. The Henry Hewes Design Awards nominated the entire creative team for their 'Notable Effects/Production Design'.

In 2006 the Hotel Savant presented Susan Sontag's rarity A Parsifal, which had its world premiere at Performance Space 122. The work was developed through workshops at Chashama and The Public Theater.

Other original New York works include Funeral Games, a musical take on Homer's the Iliad, which premiered in performance workshop at The Public Theater in 2004, and The Shady Maids of Haiti, inspired by the infamous slave revolution of 1803, which premiered at Walkerspace in 2002. Earlier works include Mercurius, inspired by the alchemical writings of CG Jung and Lola Montez in Bavaria..., which explored the relation of fame to motivation through its protagonists, Lola Montez and King Ludwig I of Bavaria. Both works were mounted at HERE.