Mission

Seacoast Repertory Theatre will reflect and enhance our community through the shared experience of live theatre. Our productions and outreach programs will be inclusive and accessible and will empower and inspire the imaginations of both audience and artist.

"reflect and enhance our community" We want to be active listeners to our stakeholders; we seek to become a part of the social/artistic fabric of the seacoast and help it thrive.

"shared experience" Not only between actor and audience, but audience and audience. Think of our space - no matter where you sit, you see other audience members and their reactions...our post show discussions are a direct result of increasing this sharing.

"live theatre" Not PBS (though we think that's great too!) Our theatre needs to be for this audience at this moment, with each and every performance. Live theatre is ultimately like life - it exists for a specific time, i.e. a given night, a given show and then it is gone.

"inclusive and accessible" Our programming should have variety and we will structure our policies to afford as many people the opportunity to join us as a patron or participant.

"imaginations of both audience and artist" Creativity is the thing human beings do best. And we want to be known as a company that nurtures not only its patrons, but the people who work there.

Vision

Seacoast Repertory Theatre is a community gathering place, a resource where our community comes together to share entertainment and stories; it is a place for reflection on life, and a place for celebrating the essence and hope of humanity. Locally and regionally, people plan their summers around our productions and travel to the Seacoast to experience our work. In the winter our year-round subscribers engage in a dialogue around compelling and high quality work including packed pre-show symposiums and post-show discussions. The local community has ownership of the theatre as a vital component of its social fabric and the transient community supports the theatre for the dynamic, provocative and yet entertaining element to their summers and weekends.

We create memorable moments for audience members and build bridges between people by the shared experience of our productions. We provide significant opportunities for youth in our area to explore the power of theatre and use that power to improve their lives and prepare them to be successful, contributing members of our community. We do this through presenting a season of plays and a program of theatre education which is entertaining, provocative and creative with the highest artistic quality. Our investment in early career artists results in established artists returning to the Rep to share their experience and reconnect with the theatre that gave them their start. Our Senior Moments program provides our community's seniors the artistic platform to create new work of and about their generation.

We will expand our audience and donor pool and increase our financial resources to ensure our service to our community for many decades to come. We will hire exceptional, visionary, and exciting artists. We will serve our local community and continue to attract new audiences from surrounding areas and offer visitors to the area an artistic destination worth the trip.