Twenty Something Theatre is a Vancouver based award-winning, independent theatre company dedicated to producing contemporary theatre that is provocative, edgy and relevant.
We are committed to providing Vancouver’s next generation of emerging artists and young professionals with opportunities to hone their craft and we strive to enhance Vancouver’s theatre community with productions that entertain and evoke the lives of today’s young people.
About to enter into our 8th season, Twenty Something Theatre has featured some of the city’s best up-and-coming artists in such highly acclaimed works as Tough! by George F. Walker, Nocturne by Adam Rapp, Blue Surge by Rebecca Gilman, Unidentified Human Remains and the True Nature of Love by Brad Fraser, Suburbia by Eric Bogosian, The Fever by Wallace Shawn, The Shape of Things by Neil Labute and This Is Our Youth by Kenneth Lonergan. In 2011 Twenty Something Theatre presented the critically acclaimed World Premiere of Prodigals, a new play by Vancouver playwright Sean Minogue, as the company’s first original production.
Most recently The Bomb-itty of Errors by Jordan Allen-Dutton, et al – a co-production with Temporary Thing – was nominated for 4 Jessie Richardson Theatre Awards including Outstanding Production & Outstanding Direction and won for Outstanding Costume Design & Significant Artistic Achievement – Outstanding Ensemble Performance with Music & Live DJ.
“Twenty Something Theatre fills an important function in Vancouver’s cultural ecology: it offers edgier scripts, including original works such as Sean Minogue’s Prodigals and, even in its name, attempts to appeal to a younger demographic. Our city needs theatrical entrepreneurs like the company’s artistic [producer] Sabrina Evertt.” –Colin Thomas, Georgia Straight
Sabrina Evertt – Founder & Artistic Producer
As well as being the Artistic Producer of Twenty Something Theatre, Sabrina is also a freelance director and costume designer.
She has produced & directed Nocturne, Blue Surge, Unidentified Human Remains and the True Nature of Love, Suburbia, The Fever, The Shape of Things, and This Is Our Youth for Twenty Something Theatre as well as produced the Jessie award-winning The Bomb-itty of Errors, Tough!, the World Premiere production of Prodigals, and Anne Frank Is In My Dreams.
Her most recent costume design credits include Empress of Asia (staged reading) & Vimy (Firehall Arts Centre), Romeo + Juliet (TWU) and the Jessie award-winning production of Jesus Hopped the ‘A’ Train (Glass City Theatre). Previous credits include 9 Parts of Desire (Presentation House Theatre), Debt-The Musical, Ernestine Shuswap Gets Her Trout, Stuff Happens, Banana Boys (Firehall Arts Centre), Werewolves (Pi Theatre) and 120bpm (Upintheair).
Sabrina has a BFA, in theatre, from the University of Victoria.
You can read her thoughts on theatre and life in general on the company’s blog An Unidentified Production.
Brian Cochrane – Associate Artistic Producer
Brian is very pleased to be joining Twenty Something Theatre as Associate Artistic Producer.
Recently Brian was a lyricist and performer in Delinquent Theatre’s Stationary (2012 Neanderthal Arts Festival), assistant director on King John (Bard on the Beach), and producer and performer in The Bomb-itty of Errors (Twenty Something/Temporary Thing). Other credits include directing Home Free! (Staircase XI), East of Berlin (Know Tomorrow Theatre, Saskatoon), and the Canadian Premiere of Love/Stories (Kinetichism). In November 2012 he will be directing The December Man (Fire In The Hole, Saskatoon).
Brian holds a BFA in Acting from the University of Saskatchewan and an MFA in Directing from the University of British Columbia. He holds them every night.