Axis Theatre is accepting submissions from Vancouver/Lower Mainland based performers, puppeteers, singers, and actors for our 2024-25 Season. Our 2024-25 productions will tour schools, community theatres, and professional theatres. We are seeking artists who are interested in touring productions, theatre for young audiences, and traveling for work. All performers who work with Axis Theatre are required to get a Vulnerable Sector Criminal Record Check. We are not accepting self-tape submissions at this time.

Introducing the talented team of artists who we had the pleasure of working with on Where Have All The Buffalo Gone? by Tai Amy Grauman. Where Have All The Buffalo Gone? specifically shares scenarios from the Callihoo family’s stories, incorporating fiddle music, jigging and a life size buffalo puppet. Inspired by historical events of the Métis people of Canada, this original play for young audiences explores the loves, the losses and the fight of Treaty 6’s Métis people – and their love and kinship to the buffalo.

Where Have All The Buffalo Gone? by Tai Amy Grauman, directed by Chris McGregor and Amanda Testini, is set for its WORLD PREMIERE April 2 - 6, 2024 at the Norman and Annette Rothstein Theatre! Read more about the team on tour below!

FROG BELLY RAT BONE by Timothy Basil Ering, adapted by Chris McGregor, is back on the road! The show is touring exclusively to schools this season. Read more about the team on tour below!

Read more about the team on tour below!

Th’owxiya: The Hungry Feast Dish by Joseph A. Dandurand is back on the road embarking on a cross-Canada tour! Read more about the team on tour below!

Quelqu’un t’aime Monsieur Hatch retourne cette année avec une mini-tournée à Saguenay, QC le 26 et 27 juillet 2023.

Come one, come all to FOOLS AT PLAY, a clown spectacular on Granville Island, presented by Axis Theatre Company and Granville Island. A celebration of nonsense, silliness and complete absurdity, this family-friendly Clown Cabaret marks the final showcase of works created and performed by Axis’ CLOWN TURN CREATION intensive participants.

Axis Theatre is accepting submissions from Vancouver/Lower Mainland based performers, puppeteers, singers, and actors for our 2023-24 Season. Our 2023-24 productions will tour schools, community theatres, and professional theatres. We are seeking artists who are interested in touring productions, theatre for young audiences, and traveling for work. All performers who work with Axis Theatre are required to get a Vulnerable Sector Criminal Record Check.

Axis Theatre is accepting submissions from actors for the role of SPA:TH/THEQA:T (Bear/Tree) for our upcoming touring production of “Th’owxiya: The Hungry Feast Dish” by Kwantlen playwright Joseph A. Dandurand. Information about the production can be found here.

Introducing the talented creative team behind Frog Belly Rat Bone, based on the storybook by Timothy Basil Ering and adapted for the stage by Chris McGregor. Combining the magic of beautifully handcrafted puppets with an original pop/rock musical score, this production tells the story of a young boy's quest for treasure and the unlikely hero he creates to protect it.

Introducing the creative team behind The Troll Grandfather. From the imaginative mind of playwright Clem Martini, comes a fantastical tale that will transport audiences to a world filled with trolls, dragons, and magic. Led by director Chris McGregor, and featuring a talented cast and crew, this production promises to take audiences on a thrilling adventure, as they follow 9-year-old Sandy Nardini on a quest to claim their magical birthright and save their mother's life.

Our premiere tour of FROG BELLY RAT BONE by Timothy Basil Ering, adapted by Chris McGregor, is on the road! The show is touring exclusively to schools this season. Read more about the team on tour below!

The wheels of tour van Betty White are back on the road, this time heading to Saskatchewan with the touring team of THE TROLL GRANDFATHER. Read more about the team on tour below!

After 3 years, THE TROLL GRANDFATHER is touring again! The new cast of Valeria Ascolese, Tanner Zerr, and Holly Collis Handford enliven the story of a Trollish grandchild and grandfather with a fresh perspective that we are thrilled to share with young audience across the country.

‘Tis the season and Axis Theatre is celebrating! Whirlwind tours, new and seasoned productions - all entwined in an epic year of theatre for our young people and those that love them!

Axis Theatre Company is back with an in-person, professional training workshop coming this summer 2022. We seek out the best of the best in puppetry, mask making and mask training instructors - check out what’s coming up!

We are all nearly 2-years into a whole new way of doing things. We have pushed and pulled, molded and sculpted, and the result is an even more specific identity, both artistically and culturally! It is our greatest honour to share TWO film creations with you and your young people. Both stories are from Kwantlen First Nations legends, each with unique lessons that relate intrinsically to the here and now.

Last season we acquired a new vocabulary in the office: “We are pivoting our approach. Please pivot to the new normal. Everyone is pivoting to online. Pivot with respect!” Theatre swiveled from the stage to audio plays, twisted into filmed and live-streamed presentations. And how does one film a live performance?

Phew! This year is definitely one for the history books! As we enter the darkest time of year, here in the Northern Hemisphere, we continue to devote ourselves to the mission of creating art for the young and young-at-heart. When our 2019-20 season became ‘but a dream’, we rallied to best support our performers, stage management, designers and staff while picking up the pieces of cancelled tours and workshops. Nine months later, we feel fortified, beaming with ambitions to craft new theatrical creations amidst the normalized shroud of uncertainty.

What a year we’ve had, eh? Throughout the pandemic we’ve been a bit quiet on the blog. There hasn’t been much to say that hasn’t already been said. Vancouver has entered Phase 3, and it feels like normal, almost. Perhaps the normal we are feeling is just a new normal, a new standard?

We are welcoming back and introducing some new faces for our 2020 tour of Th’owxiya: The Hungry Feast Dish, by Joseph A. Dandurand. They are making stops in Yellowknife, Quesnel, Kelowna, Nova Scotia, Toronto, Vancouver with performances around the lower Mainland! Check out our event calendar here to see when they are coming to your area!

Thank you to all the schools and theatres, teachers and young theatre goers who made our 2019 tour of The Troll Grandfather such a success! Our wonderful cast spend the past 2 months travelling across the province and performed 44 shows in small and large communities. We here at Axis are so fortunate to be able to share our love of theatre with young people and inspire them to get creative!

Our beloved cast of Somebody Loves You Mr. Hatch will be traveling to North Carolina on November 4th for another showcase! They only have a few days back in Vancouver before they take off again on November 11th - this time for BEIJING! Who would have thought our Mr. Hatch puppet would be such a jet-setter? I guess everybody is loving Mr. Hatch!

General Manager Daune Campbell, and Tour Coordinator, Petrice Brett, and the cast of SOMEBODY LOVES YOU, MR HATCH are all heading to Contact East on Monday for a week of showcases, networking and play! If you are also heading that way don’t be shy, come and say Hi! We’ll be in the contact room on Sat Sept 28. That’s after our showcase at 4pm on Friday Sept 27th. That’s a MUST-SEE, of course!