Spencer Armstrong has a distinguished history of producing innovative, boundary-pushing work, presented at esteemed venues including the Greek National Opera in Athens, NYU Skirball, HERE Arts Center, The Bushwick Starr, The Tank, MITU580, The Dramatists Guild Fund, and Dixon Place.
His work explores themes of queer liberation, millennial internet culture, Midwestern values, sex positivity, and literature, with a strong focus on documentary, ensemble, and devised theater. His notable collaborations include partnerships with leading downtown ensembles and companies such as Elevator Repair Service, Theater Mitu, Tectonic Theater Project, 600 Highwaymen, and SITI Company.
In 2024, Spencer produced the world premiere and subsequent American premiere of La Ville Morte by Nadia Boulanger with Catapult Opera.
Spencer was honored as a Mellon Foundation Producing Fellow at The Tank NYC in 2023, and again in 2024 at Beth Morrison Projects, where he served as an Associate Producer across six projects, including the national tour of Book of Mountains and Seas created by Basil Twist and Huang Ruo. His work at BMP culminated in serving as Associate Producer of the 2025 PROTOTYPE Festival.
In February 2025, Spencer was named the Managing Producer of En Garde Arts, New York’s oldest and premier site-specific theater company. Since joining EGA, he has produced the world premiere of Last Call, a play with cocktails by award-winning playwright Hansol Jung, which ran for 22 performances across nine apartments throughout New York City. At EGA, he is currently developing new work by Taibi Magar, Samora la Perdida, Jared Mezzocchi & Aya Ogawa, and Anne Bogart & Chuck Mee.
Spencer is a proud alumnus of the Lincoln Center Theater Directors Lab (2019), the Beth Morrison Projects Producers Academy (2022), and the inaugural class of the International Performance Ensemble at the Sands School of the Performing Arts at Pace University.