“Celebrate the collectively run Howland Company”.
– The Globe and Mail
“The Howland Company is one of the city’s most exciting indie companies.”
– NOW Magazine
“The Howland Company is incredibly reliable in putting out thoughtful, well-produced material. Their work never disappoints.“
– My Entertainment World
“There’s no finer ensemble of young actors in the city than The Howland Company. Their willingness to live in the silences, to throw their bodies and minds into the work, to embrace the theatrical power of a soliloquy in the midst of a naturalist show: all exceptional and truly awesome.”
– Holger Syme
Our Mandate:
The Howland Company strives for innovation on and off the stage. We are an artist-led and art-driven theatre company, dedicated to the production of electric stories that speak to the world and the times in which we live. Through an agile, collective-leadership model, Howland aims to build new operating structures that empower its artists with agency, skills, and growth opportunities. We seek to challenge and inspire our audiences through productions, training and community initiatives, fostering a new wave of theatre makers and theatre goers.
Celebrate 10 Years and Support the Future of The Howland Company
The Howland Company has officially been around for 10 years! Whether you’ve been with us from the start or you’ve joined us along the way, your unwavering support is the backbone of The Howland Company and we thank you.
As we celebrate this decade of theatre together, we invite you to consider making a donation to support our ongoing artistic journey. Your financial contribution is crucial to ensure that we can continue producing thought-provoking and inspiring theatre for decades to come!
Find out more and donate today!
The Howland Company is a registered charity. Charitable registration # 76820 3549 RR0001.
History:
The Howland Company is an independent Toronto theatre company, lead by a shared collective artistic leadership, who debuted on the scene with their “Best of Toronto Fringe” hit and three-time sold-out production of 52 Pick-Up. Since establishing themselves in 2013, the company has developed a new adaptation of Ödön von Horváth’s Casimir and Caroline, and Susanna Fournier’s new performance text take rimbaud, and has produced projects like their innovative and intimate production of The Glass Menagerie, and a sharp and disturbing award-winning “Patron’s Pick” production of Lemons Lemons Lemons Lemons Lemons (Toronto Fringe).
In 2018, they produced the Toronto Premiere of Punk Rock by Simon Stephens, which was honoured with two Dora Mavor Moore Award Nominations (Outstanding Ensemble & Outstanding Costume Design), another “Best of Toronto Fringe” Hit Entrances and Exits, and they closed the season with the critically acclaimed Toronto Premiere of Sarah DeLappe’s Pulitzer-nominated play The Wolves, produced in partnership with Crow’s Theatre. The Wolves won the “Outstanding Production” award (Critic’s Pick Awards) and the “Best Ensemble Performance” Award (Toronto Theatre Critics Association Awards).
In 2020, The Howland Company was thrilled to follow the buzz of their last season with the North American Premiere of Ödön von Horváth’s Casimir and Caroline, a new adaptation by Paolo Santalucia, Holger Syme and The Howland Company of this modern classic, based on an original translation by Holger Syme, at Crow’s Theatre, which won two Dora Mavor Moore Awards for “Outstanding Ensemble” and “Outstanding Costume Design” and was nominated for “Outstanding Direction”.
In 2021, The Howland Company produced their largest collaboration to date with The Home Project in partnership with Native Earth Performing Arts and presented by Soulpepper, a meditation on the meaning of home through the stories of three artists – Akosua Amo-Adem, Qasim Khan, and Cheyenne Scott, which was honoured with 5 Dora Mavor Moore Award nominations.
In 2022/2023, their most ambitious season to date, The Howland Company premiered a new Canadian adaptation of Chekhov’s Three Sisters, in partnership with Hart House Theatre; an original holiday improv show – Entrances and Exits: Home for the Holidays, by Howland’s Ruth Goodwin and collaborator Liz Johnston; as well as the World Premiere of Prodigal by Howland’s Paolo Santalucia, which received critical acclaim and the Dora Mavor Moore Award nomination for “Outstanding New Play” and the award for “Outstanding Performance in a Leading Role” for Dan Mousseau as Edmund Clark.
Closing out the 2023 season, The Howland Company brought the Canadian premiere of Will Arbery’s Pulitzer-Prize Finalist play Heroes of the Fourth Turning to Toronto in a critically acclaimed, sold-out co-production with Crow’s Theatre, directed by the legendary Philip Akin, and presented the World Premiere of Rachel Cairn’s solo show Hypothetical Baby, directed by Howland’s Courtney Ch’ng Lancaster at Tarragon Theatre.
Land Acknowledgement
The Howland Company works and performs in Tkaronto, the traditional territory of many nations including the Mississaugas of the Credit, the Anishinabeg, the Chippewa, the Haudenosaunee and the Wendat peoples. This territory is now home to many diverse First Nations, Inuit and Métis peoples and is covered by the Dish With One Spoon treaty, and more recently by Treaty 13 with the Mississaugas of the Credit.
Members of the Howland Company come from territories across Turtle Island and the globe.
The Howland Company acknowledges that as uninvited settlers on this territory we hold a responsibility to know the history of the lands we live upon, and to actively work towards becoming better treaty partners.
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