Mission

TampaRep creates transformative, relevant, and compelling professional theatre that connects our diverse audience and artists through meaningful and inspiring shared experiences.

Vision

TampaRep’s vision is to be a thriving regional theatre, built on creative excellence and inclusivity, which enhances Tampa as a cultural destination and enriches and reflects our community as an artistic home for all to discover, share, create, and experience meaningful stories.

Artistic Intent

TampaRep produces theatre with an emphasis on American drama. We create an experience — one that the audience completes — in productions that are innovative, provocative, and classic. 

Core Values

• Creative Excellence – We are committed to the highest standards of excellence. 

We endeavor to exceed the ordinary by providing world-class plays produced with the highest artistic standards. We strive for integrity and excellence in our artistry, administration, and engagement with our valued community. 

• Community – We provide broad community access to the theatre and its programs.

We believe that theatre has the power to transform us by telling stories that inspire our strength, vulnerability, and understanding of ourselves and others, fostering collaboration, meaningful conversation, and ultimately connection. We seek to share stories that celebrate, illuminate, and enrich our humanity, cultivate empathy and imagination, and unify us in both our diversity and commonality by bringing to life new ideas and experiences told from many perspectives. 

• Accountability – We are dedicated to ethical and fiscal accountability and sustainability.

We respect the transformative power of storytelling on the human mind and spirit and believe that it is our responsibility to treat all individuals with dignity and respect: our artists, our staff, and our community. We value impeccable fiscal stewardship and operational responsibility, which respect our resources and ensure the stability and growth of the organization. We are accountable for serving and preserving an artistic ecosystem for artists and our patrons built on a culture of integrity, equity, respect, active listening, safety, and open communication that is inclusive, expansive, responsive, and effective.

• Inclusivity – We believe that the theatre is for everyone. Period.

We create an equitable culture within our organization that welcomes any person to engage with us. We aspire to cultivate awareness and understanding of other perspectives. We will amplify the voices of our multi-generational, culturally diverse community by expanding the stories we tell to reflect all people. We actively seek to invite all to participate in the creation and enjoyment of the arts with us. And we will always make theatre financially accessible to those who need it.

• Joy – We cultivate an artistic environment that fosters experimentation and creativity.

TampaRep believes in the power and importance of theatre. We find joy in our relationships with our artists and our community, providing opportunities for artists to create and work, and in our artistic process. We seek to share our passion for humanity with others through stories that challenge, move, delight, uplift, and engage. 

• Arts Education – We promote education and professional development.

We strive to be a thriving cultural partner through our education and outreach initiatives in our community. We are committed to providing quality theatre arts education programs for children and adults. The broadened perspectives, skills, and sensitivities developed through creative expression and storytelling will equip them more fully wherever their interests and talents may lead them. 

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