OUR MISSION
Roustabout Theater’s mission is to create a vibrant regional theater and unparalleled actor training program in Sonoma County.
Roustabout Theater is the resident theater company of the Luther Burbank Center for the Arts in Santa Rosa, Sonoma County, California and our Apprentice Program is one of the leading theatrical training and performance programs in the San Francisco Bay Area.
Roustabout Theater has served thousands of the community’s families and theater lovers through productions, classes and scholarship programs.
Your support is welcome and all donations are tax-deductible.
Our programs are made possible, in part, with funds from Creative Sonoma and the National Endowment for the Arts. Thank you!
OUR VISION
To Build a Professional Regional Theater in Sonoma County
To Produce Masterworks of the 20th Century and new plays in their West Coast premieres
To Create a home for local, professionally-trained adult performers with a commitment to excellence
To Train young performers in the skills needed for an extraordinary performance, and to make them to feel at home in any performance situation
To Forge an indelible link between our performing artists and our apprentices
We’ve been a federally recognized nonprofit since 2005. Our number is 43-2082815.
All donations are tax-deductible. Talk to your tax advisor for details.
EQUITY, DIVERSITY AND INCLUSION
Roustabout Theater actively affirms the wide diversity of our community and actively supports all who are working to eradicate inequity, injustice, and marginalization.
In response to ongoing social and professional inequities, Roustabout Theater is dedicated to:
- actively acknowledging all racial and gender identifications;
- asserting itself as an advocate for justice and equity;
- affirming Roustabout’s intolerance for oppressive language, actions, and behavior, and standing against hate, injustice, and inequity;
- engaging in honest self-assessment of equity, diversity, and inclusion as reflected in all operations;
- implementing criteria for production, casting, and staffing that support a true and robust equity;
- practicing inclusion on our Board of Directors that respects our community’s diversity;
- encouraging personal growth among Roustabout’s artists, audiences, students and administrators to become potent advocates for equity, diversity, inclusion, and change;
- facilitating anti-racist and anti-oppression training for staff and board, including the drafting of an anti-racist/anti-oppression values statement and updating any policies to acknowledge and abandon any exclusionary or harmful practices.
BOARD OF DIRECTORS
Clark Houston Lewis
President
Dr. William Davis, DVM
Secretary/Treasurer
Catherine Hamrick-Down
Teresa Norton
Debbie Raike
TYPICAL SEASON
SPRING
From early February through mid-May, we offer a professionally produced show – with our students performing all the roles – or we offer our intensive Conservatory classes with special Master Classes helmed by leading professionals in American theater. These classes variously provide training in acting, vocal performance, diction, dialect, movement, dance (jazz, tap, ballroom, ballet), improv and stage combat.
SUMMER
Roustabout’s summer theater camp offers actors of all ages and experience levels the chance to develop their acting, dancing and singing skills while working on the production of a professionally produced show.
FALL
From early September through mid-December we produce a full-length musical and every other year is our production of Irving Berlin’s “White Christmas”. Rehearsals include instruction in dance, acting techniques and development of stage presence.
CONSERVATORY CLASSES
In addition to working on productions, Roustabout Theater offers our students the opportunity to further develop their skills through our Conservatory Classes. Held every other year, our classes provide training in acting, solo vocal performance, choral vocal performance, diction, dialect, movement, dance (stage, modern, mass and tap), improv and stage combat.
