Project: Making a Marquee
Prologue · a theater in formationOur motto: Your story, center stage.
A five stage home being built to put world class theater within reach of the people it has historically left out.
I have always been an actor who sometimes dabbles in technical theater and backstage work. But for the past four years, it has been a dream of mine to open and run my own theater company.
FIVE STAGES
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YOUR STORY, CENTER STAGE
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ONE MISSION
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A THEATER IN FORMATION
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BUILT FROM ZERO
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FIVE STAGES ♦ YOUR STORY, CENTER STAGE ♦ ONE MISSION ♦ A THEATER IN FORMATION ♦ BUILT FROM ZERO ♦
Join the listFollow a theater being built from zero, from a college fee to opening night.
A few emails a year: the shows, the fund, the wins, the faceplants, and someday, the groundbreaking.
“This theater exists to put world class theater within reach of the people it has historically left out: as audiences, as artists, and as decision makers. Through five stages, genuinely affordable training, and advocates embedded in our community, we make the art form a home rather than a destination.”
Five stages.One mission.
A C T I · T H E D R E A M
The Full Stage
A fan shaped house with a full musicians' pit.
Smaller Stages
One proscenium, one three sided thrust.
The Blackbox
A perfect square, endlessly reconfigurable.
The Amphitheater
Six show summer stock under the stars.
The Rotunda
A heart on every level, ringed by studios and shops.
The rotunda floor: intimate venues around a spiral stair
The fan house: 700 seats and the grand lobby
A C T I I · W H Y I'M D O I N G T H I S
The reason has a name: home.
Growing up bisexual in a moderately religious, tight-knit town taught me how to become a smaller, quieter version of myself just to get by. Then I found theater, and everything cracked open. Suddenly, on a stage, I was accepted, happy, and finally able to explore whole parts of myself I never knew existed.
That feeling is not meant to stop with one person. As a bisexual white man, I recognize that my experience is only one single story among thousands, and my primary goal as a creator is to make room for yours. Representation is not just about finding a space for ourselves. It is about actively building a stage where everyone gets to see their real, lived experiences reflected back at them.
So I made myself a promise. If I can ever hand that same feeling to someone else, the chance to see themselves represented on a stage, or to climb up on one and represent themselves, then I will have done my job.
I am dedicated to bringing new, diverse narratives to life, and this platform is meant to be a collaborative home for those exact voices. If there is a show that deeply resonated with you, a personal theater experience that changed your perspective, or a story you are burning to tell, I want to hear it. Reach out, share your experience, and let us figure out how to tell it together.
That is how I define success for this project.
