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History

In 1994, Vermont Stage Company became the first professional Equity theatre company in Burlington in nearly a decade. Since its modest beginnings as an itinerant company performing in whatever space was available, Vermont Stage has become an integral part of Northern Vermont’s cultural scene, presenting a full season of professional productions in the intimate setting of FlynnSpace.

A few highlights

  1. 1994 Our Inaugural Production - Founding Artistic Director Blake Robison produces The Glass Menagerie. Performed at Champlain College's Hauke Auditorium.
  2. 1995 VSC initiates Vermont Stage Young Playwrights Project.
  3. 1996 VSC becomes Resident Theatre Company at UVM. Brought Shakespeare back to the Royall Tyler Theatre with Much Ado About Nothing (Bessie Award Winner, Best Play*) and Othello. Current Artistic Director Mark Nash joins company as actor and teacher.
  4. 1997 Produced A Midsummer Night’s Dream at UVM and Amadeus on Flynn Main Stage with Vermont Mozart Festival.
  5. 1998 Mad River Rising staged at UVM. Play went on to win Bessie Award for Best Play* and Moss Hart Award for Best Professional Production in New England. Produced The Tempest with Burlington’s Taiko Drummers and The Last Station.
  6. 1999 Mad River Rising performs statewide as part of VSC’s Barnstorming Tour.
  7. 2000-01 Vermont Stage opens FlynnSpace with the world premiere of Midwives; becomes the resident professional theatre at the Flynn Center for the Performing Arts. Midwives wins VSC’s third Bessie for Best Play*. Season also includes A Streetcar Named Desire, Piano Stories and Shakespeare’s R&J. Mark Nash hired as Artistic Director.
  8. 2001-02 Season includes Vermont Fiction Live, Art, Waiting for Godot, Our Town starring Willem Lange, The Big Random.
  9. 2002-03 Season includes Sylvia, Betrayal, O’Carolan’s Farewell to Music, and To Kill a Mockingbird.
  10. 2003-04 Season includes Vermont Fiction Live 2, Proof, A Child’s Christmas in Wales, Underneath the Lintel, and The Miracle Worker.
  11. 2004-05 Season includes The Complete History of America (abridged), The Accidental Activist, The Drawer Boy, Vanya/ Vermont, and Quilters.
  12. 2005-06 Season includes The Foreigner, Winter Tales, Copenhagen, The Syringa Tree, and Jacques Brel is Alive and Well & Living in Paris.
  13. 2006-07 Season includes True West, Winter Tales 2006, Woody Guthrie’s American Song, The Boycott, I Am My Own Wife, and Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?
  14. 2007-08 Season includes Inspecting Carol , Winter Tales , Doubt , Three Days of Rain , and King Lear .
  15. 2008-09 Season includes Well, Winter Tales, I Have Before Me a Remarkable Document Given to Me by a Young Lady from Rwanda, Looking Over the President's Shoulder, and Prelude to a Kiss

* The Bessie Awards were presented every other year by Burlington City Arts in recognition of Excellence in Theatre and Film. Vermont Stage Company is the only theatre company in Vermont to have won three Bessie Awards for Best Play.

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