ABOUT US

Roustabout Theater’s mission is to create a vibrant regional theater with an unparalleled actor training program in Sonoma County.

Since 2015, Roustabout's Professional Ensemble specializes in producing locally unseen theatrical treasures: scripts recognized around the world but never seen locally which we produce in their West Coast premieres and 20th Century masterworks which have not been locally produced recently.

Since 2006, Roustabout’s Apprentice Program highlights the talents of the county’s most extraordinary student performers through its professionally produced productions. We also provide unique opportunities for our students through our ongoing series of Master Classes with Tony Award-winners, award-winning Broadway actors and nationally recognized Casting Directors.

Roustabout Theater is the resident theater company of the Luther Burbank Center for the Arts in Santa Rosa, Sonoma County, California and our Apprentice Program is one of the leading theatrical training and performance programs in the San Francisco Bay Area.

Roustabout Theater, a federally recognized nonprofit since 2005, has served thousands of the community’s families and theater lovers through productions, classes and scholarship programs.

Your support is welcome and all donations are tax-deductible. 
EQUITY, DIVERSITY and INCLUSION
Roustabout Theater actively affirms the wide diversity of our community and actively supports all who are working to eradicate inequity, injustice, and marginalization.

In response to ongoing social and professional inequities, Roustabout Theater is dedicated to:
  1. actively acknowledging all racial and gender identifications; 
  2. asserting itself as an advocate for justice and equity;
  3. and affirming Roustabout's intolerance for oppressive language, actions, and behavior, and standing against hate, injustice, and inequity;
  4. engaging in honest self-assessment of equity, diversity, and inclusion as reflected in all operations
  5. implementing criteria for production, casting, and staffing that support a true and robust equity;
  6. practicing inclusion on our Board of Directors that respects our community’s diversity; 
  7. encouraging personal growth among Roustabout’s artists, audiences, students and administrators to become potent advocates for equity, diversity, inclusion, and change; 
  8. facilitating anti-racist and anti-oppression training for staff and board, including the drafting of an anti-racist/anti-oppression values statement and updating any policies to acknowledge and abandon any exclusionary or harmful practices.
 

board of directors

Dr. William Davis, DVM
Clark Houston Lewis
Debbie Raike
Catherine Hamrick-Down
Teresa Norton

Artistic Staff

Clark Houston Lewis
Founder & Artistic Director
Bio HERE

Sheila Brock
Production Stage Manager
Bio HERE

William Davis
Director of Education
Bio HERE



CONTACT FORM

TYPICAL SEASON

SPRING
We typically produce two shows in the spring: An Apprentice production and a Journeyman production.  Apprentice productions are selected to encourage development of actors of all ages and experience levels, while Journeyman productions invite more experienced actors to develop their skills working with more sophisticated and complex material. 
SUMMER
Roustabout's summer theater camp offers actors of all ages and experience levels the chance to develop their acting, dancing  and singing skills while working on the production of a professionally produced show.
FALL
In the Fall, we will typically either produce a show with seasonal appeal or offer our Conservatory Classes.

Conservatory classes

In addition to working on productions, Roustabout Theater offers our students the opportunity to further develop their skills through our Conservatory Classes.  Held every other year, our classes provide training in acting, solo vocal performance, choral vocal performance, diction, dialect, movement, dance (stage, modern, mass and tap), improv and stage combat. 

mission

To Build a Professional Regional Theater in Sonoma County

     To Create a home for the finest actors, singers, designers and directors from around the country

     To Train young actors and singers through professional, challenging and supportive attention

     To Forge an indelible link between our performing artists and our apprentices

Previous Master Class instructors have included Tony Award winning composer/lyricist Jason Robert Brown, Obie winner and Broadway leading man, Martin Moran ("Spamalot","How to Succeed","Wicked", etc), acclaimed singer Wesla Whitfield and Leslie Martinson, nationally recognized casting director and award-winning director, Eugenie Chan, playwright in residence at New Dramatists, and Jerry Dixon, Broadway actor and regional director.

We've been a federally recognized nonprofit since 2005. Our number is 43-2082815.
All donations are tax-deductible. Talk to your tax advisor for details.