Touring to NB schools in February and March 2027!

Pricing Available Soon

Since its founding in 1974 by New Brunswick playwright Paul Hanna, the TNB Young Company has been introducing school-age audiences to the magic of live theatre. Each year, the Company travels from one end of the province to the other, from Grand Manan to Campbellton, performing in public schools for students grades 1-12.

For many students, TNB Young Company is their first introduction to live, professionally produced theatre. In many of the smaller communities in which TNB Young Company performs, it is also students’ only access to theatre.

All shows are carefully selected for their relevancy, high educational content and themes. They also serve to showcase a host of talented actors, designers and production staff, many of whom are from New Brunswick. This year’s production for elementary school students, Dinostories! Three Prehistoric Fairy Tales, a musical that mixes traditional fairy tales with dinosaurs. Nominated for Children’s Entertainer of the Year by the East Coast Music Awards, and co-written by award-winning playwright Dan Bray and Noella Murphy, Dinostories will have you tapping your feet and humming along to this musical, comic, prehistoric extravaganza!

For middle & high school students, we are excited to present Story Lab, Directed  by Alexander Rioux, a new initiative, that will be traveling across New Brunswick to offer drama club support and specialized theatre workshops for schools across New Brunswick.  Professional theatre artists and instructors will make themselves available to schools as they prepare for a production, develop an original piece, or simply want assistance building confidence, creativity, and connectivity. No matter the goal, Theatre New Brunswick can will with you to create an experience that fits your classroom. Workshops can focus on areas such as, acting and character development, ensemble building and collaboration, improvisation, voice, physical theatre, & devising and creating original material

After more than 40 years’ experience touring and performing, it is estimated that TNB Young Company have shared the theatre experience with close to 1,000,000 New Brunswick students.

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Supported By:

Dan Bray - Playwright

  • Dan Bray is a multidisciplinary artist who is very lucky to have eked out a living in the arts - especially one that occasionally lets him use the word "eke." As founder and artistic director of The Villains Theatre, he has created and staged more than 25 original works and adaptations. Most recently, his original short play The Jackson Elementary Grade 6 Drama Club presents: BLOOD + SNOW: The Donner Party’s Fatal Foray in the Sierra Nevada won the Toronto Fringe’s 24 Hour Playwriting Competition and was produced for the upcoming Halifax Fringe Festival. His original musical adaptation of Beauty & the Beast was produced by Shakespeare by the Sea this past summer, and his national award-winning mystery Deepwater can be seen at Neptune Theatre in October. 

Noella Murphy - Playwright

  • Noella Murphy (she/her) is a disabled actor, costume designer, visual artist, and all around clown. She holds a BFA from NSCAD University, and is an alum of Kinsale’s Wooden O Drama Program (Ireland). As a collaborative theatre professional, Noella has worked with many groups around the province. She co-created Dinostories: 3 Prehistoric Fairy Tales with Dan Bray - a commission for Festival Antigonish’s 2022 summer season, which has since played in other venues around Nova Scotia. Prior to that, she has helped devise various shows for festivals such as the Halifax Fringe (Worry Duck) and Nocturne: Art at Night (Fox Hatch), and she has been an instrumental collaborator with groups such as The Villains Theatre and North Barn Theatre Collective. Currently, she is developing a clown show about chronic pain entitled Flower Bed, which will premiere at the 2025 Mayworks Halifax Festival of Working People & the Arts. 

Bingly and the Rogues

  • Bingly and The Rogues are a group of musicians and friends from Antigonish Nova Scotia who came together to create fun and funny music for kids. They were nominated for an East Coast Music Award in 2019, 2022, and 2023. Bingly and the Rogues' music has been featured on numerous international children's music radio programs, as well as CBC programs like the East Coast Music Hour and Mainstreet. They have written music and songs for children's theatre including Dinostories! from Villains Theatre and A Potion for Emotion from It's Gonna Be Great Theatre.