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

  • Natasha MacLellan

    ARTISTIC DIRECTOR artisticdirector@tnb.nb.ca

  • A woman with long, wavy brown hair smiling in front of shelves filled with containers and supplies.

    Joanna Bryson

    GENERAL MANAGER generalmanager@tnb.nb.ca

  • A young woman with short hair, wearing a dark shirt with small patterns, standing in front of a brick wall, looking upwards with a slight smile.

    Andrea Evans

    PRODUCTION MANAGER productionmanager@tnb.nb.ca

  • Alex Rioux

    THEATRE SCHOOL DIRECTOR tsinstructor@tnb.nb.ca

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    Jared Carney

    DIRECTOR OF DEVELOPMENT & COMMUNICATIONS communications@tnb.nb.ca

  • A woman with long brown hair, wearing glasses and a black top, standing in front of a bookshelf.

    Sherry Kinnear

    HEAD OF WARDROBE wardrobe@tnb.nb.ca

  • A man wearing a gray cap and black long-sleeve shirt standing in a woodworking workshop with wood and tools in the background.

    Jamie Atkinson

    HEAD OF CARPENTRY

  • A man with glasses and a beard wearing a black and white patterned sweater, smiling against a plain white background.

    Trent Logan

    TECHNICAL DIRECTOR techdirector@tnb.nb.ca

TNB Board of Governors

  • NICOLE PICOT

    Chair

  • MICHELLE CADOGAN

    Vice Chair

  • CHRISSY COTTER

    Treasurer

  • SHARON CATTAN

    Secretary

  • JEANNIE MATTHEWS

    Committee Member

  • MICHAEL MCARDLE

    Committee Member

  • KEVIN PERDUE

    Committee Member

  • TRAVIS FORD

    Committee Member

  • NATASHA SIMON

    Committee Member

  • KATHLEEN BUCKLEY

    Committee Member

  • CAITLIN DUTT

    Committee Member

  • 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