1) creating high quality amateur and semi-professional productions

2) working together as an ensemble

3) demonstrating a willingness to create, assess and grow

4) creating original and dynamic staging concepts

The Heartwood Theater Group consists of a growing core ensemble of regional adult actors, auditioned actors, and occasional professional or semi-professional performers invited for a particular role. Members of the Group participate in critique sessions following each production.

Heartwood will endeavor to read or produce one new work each season. Every effort will be made to promote original work. Designers and directors will work to engage the audience with purpose driven unified stage concepts, acknowledging tradition as they engage the audience with purpose driven unified stage concepts, acknowledging tradition as they engage the new.

Possibilities: major musicals; original work; one act festivals; straight theater; opera; outdoor happenings; acting & directing classes; development of a vibrant tech theater element.