Officially incorporated in 1994, neworldtheatre is a professional, Vancouver-based theatre company which creates, develops, produces and tours new plays that reflect multiple facets of Canada's diverse populations. Created through a potent mixture of collective creation and traditional script development, neworld productions investigate intersections between communities and peoples. Our work examines borders - between cultures, styles, and disciplines - and our shows are hybrids of East and West, of the real and imaginary, and of story and cabaret.

We also work with numerous community-based groups, giving non-professional artists creative tools with which to examine and express their self-defined aspirations and concerns.

Philosophically, we are driven by a commitment to a broad, integrated and artistically cogent mix of diverse artists and arts-practice and a commitment to the artist's vision as the primary engine of artistic creation. We believe that Canada's artistic ecology is as culturally, economically and stylistically 'diverse' as the country it emerges from. It is the inherent strengths of this ecology that we strive to reflect, and at the heart of all our work we believe in the triumph of compassion over all forms of oppression.

Since 1992, Vancouver-based neworld has produced 17 original shows and received 17 Jessie Richardson Awards, The Canada Council TYA Award and the Alcan Performing Arts Award.

neworldtheatre productions tour across Canada and have been presented by major national festivals, including the the PuSh Festival, the Vancouver International Children's Festival and the National Arts Centre's Magnetic North Theatre Festival. Cited by both the National Post and the Globe and Mail as one of the companies driving the nationally recognized renaissance in independent Vancouver theatre, neworld produces work that is passionate, entertaining and thought-provoking. We consistently reach audiences that cross traditional cultural and demographic boundaries.