Mission Statement

Theatre New Brunswick is one of Canada's oldest and longest running regional theatre companies. Our mission is to create extraordinary theatre that inspires and entertains our audience while celebrating New Brunswick's best theatre artists; and to provide outstanding theatre training and performance that educates and awakens the imaginations of our youth.

A Brief History

In 1961, the Beaverbrook Auditorium Act was created by the Legislature of the Province of New Brunswick to manage The Playhouse. With additional financial support from the Beaverbrook Canadian Foundation and service clubs throughout the province, Theatre New Brunswick was officially created in 1969, and toured four productions to six cities, including Fredericton, from January to May.

In 1972, the auditorium was renovated into a 763-seat theatre with a fly gallery. In 2000, the City of Fredericton purchased The Playhouse, and Theatre New Brunswick formally became a separate entity.

For more information, please visit our history page.

Artistic Producer Caleb Marshall

Caleb has had over a twenty-year association with Theatre New Brunswick; beginning as an usher and later as an actor, assistant director and guest instructor. He returns to New Brunswick after serving as an Education Practitioner at Shakespear's Globe Theatre in London where he was also the resident director on their UK/European tour of Romeo & Juliet. Writing and directing credits include Christmas @theplayhouse: Hope in Every Home, and The Christmas Show of Christmas Shows (Fredericton Playhouse), as well as his award-winning adaptation of Nights Below Station Street (NB Acts, Eliot Haze Playwright Development Award, Herman Voaden National Playwriting Competition Honourable Mention), and his one-act Somme Letters Home (Atlantic Fringe/George Brown Theatre School/YPT). He served as the inaugural Artist-in-Residence for the NB Acts Festival in 2006 where he sat on the provincial playwriting competition jury and directed the winning one-act A Dog in a Pagoda!

Select acting credits include Tuesdays with Morrie (TNB); Romeo & Juliet (Shakespeare's Globe/Edinburgh Fringe); On the Middle Day (Old Vic/Imperial War Museum); Lifedream, Lutz (NB Acts); Twelfth Night, Tempest Tost, Inherit the Wind, Romeo & Juliet, Richard III, The Scarlet Pimpernel, Loves' Labour's Lost, The Taming of the Shrew, Pericles, King John, Timon of Athens, Cymbeline (Stratford Shakespeare Festival); Anne, Stolen Lives (The Blyth Festival); Claptrap (CanStage/NAC). Film and television credits include: PSI Factor, the Rez, Earth Final Conflict, Beyond the Call, Queer as Folk, Sticks & Stones, and Black Eyed Dog.

Caleb holds a BFA Honours Acting degree from York University (Toronto) and an MFA with Distinction in Theatre Directing from Middlesex University (London UK). He also trained at the Stratford Conservatory for Classical Theatre Training, Shakespear's Globe's International Artist's Fellowship, and at Moscow's GITIS Academy. He has taught workshops for the Stratford Education Department, The Globe Neuss (Germany), and the Festival Shakespearowski (Poland). Caleb was awarded the 2007 Christopher Plummer Fellowship Award and was named the 2007 Emerging Artist of the Year by the New Brunswick Arts Board.