About Us
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 content and artists; and to provide outstanding theatre training and performance that educates and awakens the imaginations of our youth and emerging artists.
TNB has three components: A professional season of live theatre which seeks to celebrate New Brunswick and Maritime playwrights, actors, designers, and other theatre artists; the Theatre School which trains close to 400 K-12 students each year in acting, musical theatre, & playwriting; and the Young Company which brings plays to thousands of elementary, middle, & high school students across the province each winter, many of whom have never experienced live theatre before.
Meet the Staff
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Natasha MacLellan
ARTISTIC DIRECTOR artisticdirector@tnb.nb.ca
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Joanna Bryson
GENERAL MANAGER generalmanager@tnb.nb.ca
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Andrea Evans
PRODUCTION MANAGER productionmanager@tnb.nb.ca
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Alex Rioux
THEATRE SCHOOL DIRECTOR tsinstructor@tnb.nb.ca
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Jared Carney
DIRECTOR OF DEVELOPMENT & COMMUNICATIONS communications@tnb.nb.ca
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Sherry Kinnear
HEAD OF WARDROBE wardrobe@tnb.nb.ca
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Jamie Atkinson
HEAD OF CARPENTRY
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Trent Logan
TECHNICAL DIRECTOR techdirector@tnb.nb.ca
TNB Board of Governors
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NICOLE PICOT
Chair
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MICHELLE CADOGAN
Vice Chair
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CHRISSY COTTER
Treasurer
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SHARON CATTAN
Secretary
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JEANNIE MATTHEWS
Committee Member
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MICHAEL MCARDLE
Committee Member
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KEVIN PERDUE
Committee Member
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TRAVIS FORD
Committee Member
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NATASHA SIMON
Committee Member
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KATHLEEN BUCKLEY
Committee Member
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CAITLIN DUTT
Committee Member
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ILKAY SILK
TNB Foundation Chair
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.
Since Theatre New Brunswick’s first season in 1969, hundreds of artists, crafts people and administrators as well as thousands upon thousands of audience members, in fact a generation raised on TNB, have contributed to it’s over 225 Main Stage productions. Half of these have been Canadian plays or adaptations by Canadian writers and over 20 have been world premieres; works that nurtured the collaborative team of Alden Nowlen and Walter Learning, launched the plays of Norm Foster, gave us Marshall Button’s Lucien and most recently Allen Cole and Paul Ledoux’s The Bricklin: An Automotive Fantasy and Ryan Griffith's epic adventure Fortune of Wolves.
Natasha MacLellan 2018-Present
Thomas Morgan Jones 2015-2018
Caleb Marshall 2009-2014
Leigh Rivenbark 2007-2009
Claude Giroux 2005-2007
Scott Burke 2003-2005
David Sherren 1999-2003
Walter Learning 1995-1999
Michael Shamata 1990-1995
Sharon Pollock 1988-1990
Janet Amos 1984-1988
Malcolm Black 1978-1984
Walter Learning 1968-1978
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Two for the Seesaw
There’s a Girl in My Soup
Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?
Black Comedy
A Resounding Tinkle
Private Lives
Mary, Mary
Dial ‘M’ for Murder
Critic’s Choice
Please Don’t Sneeze -
A Man for All Seasons
The Mousetrap
The Playboy of the Western World
Plaza Suite -
Butterflies Are Free
The Country Girl
Philadelphia, Here I Come
The King and I
The Lion in Winter
Present Laughter
The Secretary Bird -
How the Other Half Loves
Leaving Home
The Caretaker
Dracula
The Patrick Pearse Motel
Jacques Brel Is Alive and Well and Living in Paris
Othello -
Death of a Salesman
Who Killed Santa Claus?
Born Yesterday
The Fantasticks
Frankenstein – The Man Who Would Be God (W)
The Fourposter
Head, Guts and Soundbone Dance -
The School for Scandal
Godspell
Sleuth
The Man Most Likely To
The Innocents
A Flea in Her Ear
Frankenstein -
The Servant of Two Masters
The Diary of Anne Frank
Godspell
Relatively Speaking
Wait Until Dark
The Last of the Red Hot Lovers
Daughter-in-law -
The Dollar Woman
The Taming of the Shrew
The Price
Made in Heaven
One Night Stand
Equus -
The Incredible Murder of Cardinal Tosca
Vanities
Sizwe Bansi Is Dead
The Norman Conquests
Man of La Mancha -
The Au Pair Man
Waiting for Godot
Macbeth
The Return of A.J. Raffles
The Subject Was Roses
Same Time Next Year
18 Wheels -
Hansel and Gretel
On Golden Pond
Free at Last
Twelfth Night
The Glass Menagerie
Eight to the Bar -
A Christmas Carol
Billy Bishop Goes to War
Chapter Two
The Miracle Worker -
Talley’s Folly
You’re a Good Man Charlie Brown
Murder Game
Side by Side by Sondheim
Wuthering Heights -
Memoir
Life with Father
Mass Appeal
The Impresario / The Diary of Adam and Eve from the Apple Tree
Arms and the Man -
Sinners
The Little Sweep
Count Dracula
Duet for One
Candida -
The Melville Boys
I’ll Be Back Before Midnight
Scrooge
A Taste of Honey
Country Hearts -
Garrison’s Garage
Can’t Pay? Won’t Pay!
Female Transport
The Mystery of the Oak Island Treasure
The Tomorrow Box
The White Dogs of Texas
Family Trappings
Lucien
Don Messer’s Jubilee -
Jitters
The Best of Tap
Zero Hour
The Little Foxes
Educating Rita
A Child Is Crying on the Stairs
The Black Bonspiel of Wullie MacCrimmon -
My Darling Judith
Guys and Dolls
McClure
Lucien
The Corn Is Green
Corpse!
My Memories of You
Lockhartville -
Blood Relations
Scapino!
The Road to Mecca
Agnes of God
The Kite
The Faith Healer
You Strike the Woman, You Strike the Rock
Getting it Straight
Judge Prouse Presiding
The Second City -
Crimes of the Heart
Salt Water Moon
A Moon for the Misbegotten
Loot
Memories of You
Four the Moment
The Second City -
The Affections of May
A Christmas Carol
Bordertown Cafe
Ghosts
Letter from Wingfield Farm -
The Motor Trade
Dracula
Gunmetal Blues
The Secret Rapture
Wingfield’s Progress -
Wrong for Each Other
The Winter’s Tale
Cat on a Hot Tin Roof
Italian American Reconciliation
Wingfield’s Folly -
Lucien 2 – Lucien’s Labour Lost
The Secret Garden
A Streetcar Named Desire
Safe Haven
Shirley Valentine -
Yard Sale
A Christmas Carol
If We Are Women
The Importance of Being Earnest
The Search for Signs of Intelligent Life in the Universe
Letter from Wingfield Farm -
I’ll Be Back Before Midnight
Steel Magnolias
A Gift to Last
The Gin Game
Rock and Roll
Lend Me a Tenor -
Office Hours
Kringle’s Window
Misery
The Americans Are Coming
Billy Bishop Goes to War -
Beauty and the Beast
Thirteen Hands
The Wild Guys
Sleuth -
The Last Tasmanian
Driving Miss Daisy
Peter Pan
The Foursome
Skylight -
The Woman in Black
A Christmas Carol
Drinking Alone
The Passion of Narcisse Mondoux
I Do! I Do! -
Song for a New World
Ethan Clamore
The Attick, the Pearls & Three Fine Girls
The Drawer Boy
Wingfield Unbound -
Picasso at the Lapin Agile
Anne
The Prisoner of Second Avenue -
The Secret Garden
Art
Jasper Station -
The Hobbit
Dear Santa
Vinci
Wingfield on Ice -
Chairmaker
Cricket on the Hearth
Mary’s Wedding
Oh, Coward
Lucien Snowbird -
Here on the Flight Path
Pinocchio
I Love You, You’re Perfect, Now Change
For the Pleasure of Seeing Her Again -
The Graduate
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Forever Plaid
A Christmas Carol
The Love List -
The Rocky Horror Show
Narnia
Tuesdays With Morrie -
Doubt A Parable opened by LaTour
It’s A Wonderful Life
Skin Flick opened by Bad Water
The Bricklin: An Automotive Fantasy -
Feelgood opened by The Truth is a Hard Flat Surface
Treasure Island opened by The Marketeer
Hockey Dreams
The Bricklin: An Automotive Fantasy -
A Doll’s House
Alfred Hitchcock’s The 39 Steps opened by The Smokey Mokes
The Gifts of the Magi
The Dollar Woman
The Musical of Musicals (The Musical!) -
Oleanna
Hilda’s Yard
It’s a Wonderful Life opened by Turcotte’s Triple Crown
Little Shop of Horrors -
RED
The Net, A Tragedy of the Sea
Miracle on 34th Street
Private Lives
The Last Five Years -
Frankenstein, The Man Who Became God
Somme Letters Home
A Christmas Carol
The Eight Fire
Beaverbrook
On A First Name Basis
The Drowsy Chaperone -
You Play Beautifully
Life, Death and the Blues
Vigil
Watching Glory Die
Little Women
The Space Between
Returning Fire
Marion Bridge
Mary Poppins -
A Sunday Affair
Ghost Light
The Snow Queen
The Damsel In Distress Who Saved Herself
The Boat
Shrek, The Musical -
Fortune of Wolves
A Christmas Carol
A Herman Tale
Goodbye Marianne
Finding Wolastoq Voice
Beauty and the Beast -
Any Given Moment
Come Down From Up River
The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe
A Brief History of the Maritimes and Everywhere Else
Gretel and Hansel
Sania The Destroyer -
1979
It's A Wonderful Life: A Live Radio Play
Boys, Girls and Other Mythological Creatures
It's A Girl! -
Post Script
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Miss Bennet: Christmas at Pemberly
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Bluebirds
The Wickhams: Christmas at Pemberly
Resident Aliens
S.T.O.P.
Altar -
Wood Buffalo
All I Want For Christmas
Becca
Sidewalk Chalk
Beneath Springhill - The Maurice
Ruddick Story
The Spongebob Musical
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O’Brien
Songs from Finding Wolastoq Voice
Greetings
Bluebirds
Tree Boy
Tuhkiyawolotiopn
Hadestown
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The Greatest Play in the History of the World
A Canyon Contained
The Velveteen Rabbit
Heroine
Mean Girls
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To Every Thing There is a Season
Dinostories! Three Prehistoric Fairy Tales
Story Lab
Bluebirds
Into the Woods