Here we are!

Welcome to the Red Door Ensemble blog! Here you'll find messages from our artistic director, managing director, actors, technicians, playwrights, dramaturgs, everyone within our organization. We want you to get to know us and we want to get to know you! So if there is anything you'd like to chat, discuss, or simply vent feel free to do so here. What you'll receive from us are the different aspects of theatre, sharing with you what we enjoy most in the world: creating good theatre.

So, what is Red Door Ensemble? We are an ensemble of actors, directors, and writers in the Iowa Cultural Corridor dedicated to presenting only original work. You won't see the plays already produced at other theatres because everything we create is new. Whether it be an unproduced work, a collaborative experience, or an adaptation we will further the theatrical experience by providing pieces you have never seen before.

Why original work? The theatrical experience is a unique history of the world, a different viewpoint we can't receive from a text book. Theatre is our oral history, a history of behavior and producing work from our theatrical canon is a noble goal. The Red Door Ensemble is interested in creating the new canon, the new cycle of work that teaches the next generation and beyond what people were like today.

In the weeks, months, and hopefully years to come you'll hear directly from us what we're doing, what we're performing, how we're furthering the experience of theatre.