Dad's Garage Theatre Company, located at 569 Ezzard St. in the Old Fourth Ward in Atlanta, Georgia, was founded in 1995 by Chris Blair, Marc Cram, Sean Daniels, George Faughnan, John Gregorio, David Keeton, Joseph Limbaugh, Matt Stanton, and Matt Young.
- Venue
- Dad's Garage Theatre Company
- Address
- 569 Ezzard Street, Atlanta, GA 30312
- Town
- Atlanta, US
Dad's Garage Theatre Company, located at 569 Ezzard St. in the Old Fourth Ward in Atlanta, Georgia, was founded in 1995 by Chris Blair, Marc Cram, Sean Daniels, George Faughnan, John Gregorio, David Keeton, Joseph Limbaugh, Matt Stanton, and Matt Young. A second wave of people in the founding summer soon followed, and the theatre company spent the next five years establishing itself in the Atlanta improv and theatre communities. The small theater company has since achieved international recognition for original stage productions and Improvisational comedy. Jon Carr is the Artistic Director, Tim Stoltenberg is the Creative Director, and Katie Pelkey is the Managing Director. On June 23, 1995, Dad's Garage opened its doors at 280 Elizabeth St., a building which formerly housed celebrated theater company Actor's Express, with the comedy play Fun With Science. The company then produced the regional premiere of Eric Bogosian's subUrbia in 1996, followed by an adaptation of Cannibal! The Musical by Trey Parker and Matt Stone in the fall of 1998, a production considered a breakthrough moment for the theatre company in the Atlanta arts scene. Graham Chapman's O Happy Day had its world premiere at Dad's Garage in 2000, followed by Chapman's Out of The Trees in 2001. In 2002, Dad's Garage produced a play by Chicago's Neo-Futurists, 43 Plays for 43 Presidents, which was attended by former president and First Lady Jimmy and Rosalynn Carter. In the early and mid-2000s, Dad's Garage produced original new works, including premieres of several plays by Steve Yockey, during his time as Marketing Director. In the late 2000s, the company started shifting to creating original scripted works and improv, while adopting a democratic system of preparing projects for season planning, though external scripts were still occasionally produced. In the fall of 2010, Dad's Garage secured permission to produce Two Gentlemen of Lebowski, an Elizabethan adaptation of the Coen brothers' film. A video