Electric Company Theatre

Electric Company is a leading force in the Canadian live theatre scene, recognized for creating original work rich in spectacle and adventurous in form. In recent years the company has had a presence on major stages and festivals in North America including San Jose Stage, American Conservatory Theater San Francisco, Canada's National Arts Centre, the Vancouver Playhouse, the Arts Club Theatre, Alb

erta Theatre Projects, Theatre Calgary, Montreal's Festival TransAmeriques, Victoria's Belfry Theatre, Edmonton's Citadel Theatre, and Toronto's Canadian Stage. Steered by a collective artistic vision under Core Artists Carmen Aguirre, Kevin Kerr, Kim Collier, and Jonathon Young, Electric Company's creative process is highly collaborative, blurring traditional boundaries between playwright, director, dramaturgy and design. The tension between "immediate" and "mediated" performance inspires a body of work where the allure of the ideal cinematic reproduction is in counterpoint with live presence - an athletic attempt at precision, with the threat of the accidental. The company is based out of a shared, 6,000 square foot theatre creation space in Vancouver's Commercial Drive neighbourhood, Progress Lab 1422.