To entertain and inspire by creating exceptional theatre exploring the diversity of human experience

OUR STORY

We are Nashville's premier regional theatre company, founded in 1985 by Martha Rivers Ingram and Mac Pirkle, celebrating over 30 years of presenting musicals, hot new plays, and reimagined classics to Nashville. Every year, over 20,000 members of the local community get to experience a Nashville Rep production, special event, or outreach program. 

Nashville Rep boasts an ambitious season every year, featuring spectacular main stage productions, the Ingram New Works Project, The Nashville Rep Conservatory, professional development and educational programs, outreach activities, and several special events, plus our props and costume rentals program! We love our home here in Nashville and are proud to be leaders in the Nashville arts community. Employing over 200 actors, playwrights, designers, directors, musicians, technicians, and educators each year, Nashville Rep is the leading employer of theatrical artists in middle Tennessee!

Nashville Rep is honored to have been recognized across Tennessee as a theatrical company of the highest quality. We have been named Best Professional Theatre by the Nashville Scene, the Best Local Theatre by The Tennesseean, and were formally recognized for thirty years of service to the community by the Metropolitan Government of Nashville and Davidson County. Our shows, actors, directors, and designers have been honored with awards from Nfocus, the First Night Awards, Nashville Scene, The Tennessean, and more. Thank you, Tennessee, for supporting the work we love to do!

A PLACE FOR EVERYONE

Nashville Rep’s Commitment to Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion

"Nashville Repertory Theatre is committed to creating an equitable, diverse, and inclusive organization and community. We can only maintain excellence by recruiting and retaining a diverse group of artists, audiences, supporters, staff, and board, and by sharing our resources in a way that makes theatre accessible to all ages, backgrounds, citizenships, citizens of national origin, disabilities, education levels, gender identities, geographical locations, languages, military experiences, sexual orientations, races, religions, socioeconomic statuses, work experiences, and historically excluded communities."

WE ARE COMMITTED TO ANTI-RACISM

We are committed to creating a culture and an organization that is more responsive to the community that we serve. This commitment will be supported by transparent policies, accountability structures, and processes that invite active community participation.

We are creating more transparent, equitable HR processes. Our recruitment, hiring, onboarding, feedback, and evaluation processes will promote a staff and board that more accurately reflects the diverse growth of the Nashville community.

It is imperative that we create a safe, more equitable working environment for our artists, technicians, and administrators who identify as Black, Indigenous, Asian, Pacific Islander, Latinx, and People of Color. We are committed to permanent, ongoing EDI and anti-racist training for our board, our staff, and our associated artists. The acknowledgment of native land is an organization-wide commitment.

We are allocating time, space, and financial resources to the development of emerging artists who identify as Black, Indigenous, Asian, Pacific Islander, Latinx, and People of Color. This includes creating new career development tracks, promoting diverse creative teams, eliminating the hiring criteria of years of experience/degree requirements, and ending working practices that present barriers to entering our organization.  

As creators and cultivators of theatre arts, we are tasked with the honest duty of amplifying historically excluded voices. We are redesigning our season and program selection process to amplify and promote the voices and the stories of Black, Indigenous, Asian, Pacific Islander, Latinx, and People of Color. We will encourage the reimagining of canonical works and become fully representative of the growth in the community that we serve.

To honor these values, Nashville Rep has adopted the National Arts Strategies’ racial equity advancement framework, which defines the following principles:

Brave Conversations
With Us, Not for Us
Power Sharing

For more information about the National Arts Strategies’ Racial Equity Principles: 
https://www.artstrategies.org/about-us/racial-equity-principles/

For more information about the efforts of Nashville Repertory Theatre or to get involved, contact Executive Director Drew Ogle at 615-349-3224.

LAND ACKNOWLEDGMENT

We acknowledge that the land on which we meet is the original homeland of the Cherokee Nation, also known as the Ani-Yun-Wiya or “real-people.” We also acknowledge the Chickasaw, Shawnee, & Yuchi tribal nations. We stand upon a painful history of genocide and forced removal from this territory, and honor and respect the many diverse Indigenous peoples still connected to this land on which we gather. The art that we create together is in full ownership of this history.