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"Beautifully crafted, affecting performances by the finely tuned ensemble - evocative and expressive work, a multilayered theatrical treat."
SF Bay Guardian

"Ambitious staging...imaginative and vivid, with the added punch of dramatic collage. Charged political theater. The remarkable ensemble of actors show wit and verve."
Berkeley Daily Planet

“…an always involving, always beautiful, and deeply moving evening of theatre...a grand kickoff to the season. [The] ensemble is fully up to the task, moving briskly and gorgeously through a series of classical tales [making] the old stories bristle with humor, pathos, heartbreak and an occasional balm of mercy. The stories are so engaging, and the actors play them out so beautifully.”
The Oregonian

We are a troupe of theatre artists presenting live events in unique venues. The work of Upon These Boards focuses on time-honored literature as well as new works. Founded in 2000, UTB serves as a platform for innovative designers, actors, composers & wordsmiths to combine their imaginings onstage.

UTB has established a record of artistic achievement, collaborating with award-winning companies including San Francisco’s Word For Word, Marin’s Porchlight Theatre Company, and Portland’s Artists Repertory Theatre. We we presented with the Bay Area Critics Circle Award for our staging of Lysistrata Project at Berkeley Rep (with a cast of 100), and also united an ensemble of New York actors and Broadway notables for an Artists Against War event at the Great Hall at Cooper Union.

"emotional depth...abundant imagination...

...astounding grace...balletic beauty"

Among our goals is an epic theatre experience which rattles and awakens an audience - whether it's under a cathedral of redwoods, in huge amounts of water, within a ghostly house or promenading through a rugged warehouse.

Our master classes serve the seriously-minded student of Classical Theatre forms. UTB is the artistic host for the new work Fools Fall (an adaptation of Shakespeare's Timon of Athens) as well as the large-scale theatre project The Inkwell Communiqués.

Artistic Collaborations have included: Berkeley Rep, Artists Against War, Word For Word, Artists Rep, Porchlight Theatre Company; Lysistrata Project co-creators Kathryn Blume & Sharron Bower, theatre composers Katy Stephan, Rodolpho Ortega & Jeffrey Gilpin, web designer Andy McCone, and all of the theatre notables who took part in the large-scale ensemble casts of The Inkwell Communiqués. UTB was awarded the Bay Area Critics Circle Award in 2003 and featured in the San Francisco Chronicle, the Oakland Tribune and Newsweek.

Read more about our work on the Objects & Mask page.