SpeakEasy Stage Company

Overview
Headquarters: 
Boston, MA
Website: 
speakeasystage.com
Size: 
1-10 employees
Founded: 
1992
Annual Budget : 
$100-500M
Areas of Focus: 
Arts / Culture / Humanities
Populations Served: 
All Populations
About Us
Mission: 

SpeakEasy produces intimate, entertaining plays and musicals that are new to Boston and compel thoughtful conversation. We champion new talent and future arts leaders, alongside a diverse community of experienced local theatre professionals who share our devotion to excellence. We treat our artists, audiences and supporters as collaborators, working with us to make Boston a city that is sustainable for artists.

Programs: 

SpeakEasy MainStage: We create dynamic seasons full of Boston-premiere musicals and plays.

Creating Conversations: We keep the dialogue going after the house-lights come up by providing audience discussions, post-show talkbacks, and access to our artists.

The Contemporary American Musical Initiative: We excel in presenting unique musical theatre productions that are cutting edge and relevant in both form and subject.

The Boston Project: We commission and provide dramaturgical support for Boston-based playwrights to develop new plays that explore what it means to live in our great city today.

Fellowship Program & Technical Apprenticeships: We train tomorrow’s arts leaders by providing real work experience for high school and college students, as well as recent graduates.

Emerging Artists: We cultivate the next generation of theatre artists by hiring new talent to begin their professional careers working alongside the best actors, directors, stage managers, and designers Boston has to offer.

Access Program: We strive to make our programs accessible to Boston’s diverse and vibrant population through multiple community partnerships and collaborations.

Why Work For Us?: 

SpeakEasy Stage is a non-profit theatre company located in the South End of Boston. Led by award-winning Producing Artistic Director Paul Daigneault, we produce 28 weeks of new plays and musicals each season at the Nancy and Ed Roberts Studio Theater in the Calderwood Pavilion at the Boston Center for the Arts.

Since our founding in 1992, we’ve produced vital, timely and entertaining productions that have helped make Boston’s South End into an artistic and cultural destination. We work with hundreds of locally-based artists, actors, directors, and technicians each year, and train early career artists through its fellowship and emerging artists programs, supporting them as they develop their potential.

SpeakEasy Stage has distinguished itself as Boston’s premiere theater, consistently winning acclaim for presenting top-quality productions of contemporary, cutting-edge plays and musicals. For three decades, our shows have sparked conversations that continue long after audiences leave the theater – challenging, connecting, and inspiring the community.

OUR VALUES

Heart, Loyalty, Excellence, Courage, Respect, and Joy

industry: 
Nonprofit