Company Philosophy

The Mission

• To nurture and support a truly diverse range of emerging and established theatre artists—giving voice to new stories;

• To ensure that theatre is accessible to all people, regardless of background or economic status.

The human experience cannot be found in generalities or monoliths. Our humanity reveals itself in those distinct person-to-person interactions against specific backdrops in the face of particular challenges, small and large. It appears at those moments when our life experiences diverge from our expectations, when we discover an unanswerable question – then we will find the human condition that unites us.

Theatre, an inherently collaborative art form, explores those details of the human condition not just in the performance on stage, but in the interactive process required to create the art – the friction, the challenges, the unanswerable questions start in the rehearsal room and that examination, experimentation, and exploration of humanity leaps onto the stage and then carries through the audience who collectively experience joy, pain, laughter, fear. Then their questions  and revelations pass into the world.

At Theatre 4the People we understand that collaboration is at its most creative when there is a multiplicity of voices and experiences in the room. Not just many people, but many peoples. We strive to hold a space where all voices are empowered to speak and share, knowing they will be heard and embraced with equity and openness. We actively seek out those artists whose e perspectives differ from our own and each others.