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The Theatre Company — comedy and tragedy masks

Falmouth, Maine · Est. 1986

The Theatre
Company

A storied Falmouth, Maine theatre company, founded in 1986 — now being reborn under new stewardship for a new generation of audiences.

Our StoryWhat’s Next

A new chapter

A storied company, reborn.

To gather our community around the theatre arts — on stage, in the shop, and in the house — and to carry a storied legacy into its next chapter under new stewardship.

What began in 1986 with fourteen students grew into a beloved fixture of Falmouth’s cultural life — its festival one-acts earning a name across the state. Now The Theatre Company is reforming under new stewardship: the same legacy, a new curtain about to rise.

1986

Founded

30+

Seasons staged

Class A

State Drama Festival

2026

A new chapter

What's Next

The next curtain rises

The Theatre Company is reforming under new stewardship. Its first season of the new chapter is being planned now — programming and opening night to be announced.

Season One · A new era

To be announced

After more than three decades on stage, the company is gathering its next ensemble. Casting, programming, and opening night will be announced as the new chapter takes shape.

The Archive

Seasons past

More than a decade of productions from the company's history.

2019–2020

  • Alice in Wonderland

    Fall Play

  • Thieves' Carnival

    Class A Regional Champion

    Festival

  • Fiddler on the Roof

    rehearsed and performed remotely after the spring closure

    Spring Musical

2018–2019

  • James and the Giant Peach

    Fall Musical

  • Scapin

    Fall Play

  • A View From the Bridge

    Class A Regional Champion

    Festival

  • Mamma Mia!

    Spring Musical

2017–2018

  • Class A Regional Champion

    advanced to the State Finals

    Festival

  • Bye Bye Birdie

    Spring Musical

2016–2017

  • Charley's Aunt

    Fall Play

  • South Pacific

    Spring Musical

2015–2016

  • Wizard's Crystal

    Winter Play

  • Ring Round the Moon

    Class A State runner-up

    Festival

2014–2015

  • Godspell

    Fall Musical

  • The Phantom Tollbooth

    Fall Play

  • Tartuffe

    Winter Play

  • Don Quixote

    4th, Class A · Judges' Commendation for design

    Festival

  • Anything Goes

    Spring Musical

2013–2014

  • Peter Pan

    Fall Musical

  • Bloody Murder

    Fall Play

  • Charm

    Regional Champion · State runner-up · advanced to the New England Festival

    Festival

  • Little Women

    Spring Musical

2012–2013

  • Robin Hood

    Fall Musical

  • You Can't Take It With You

    Fall Play

  • The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe

    Winter Play

  • The 39 Steps

    Festival

  • Oklahoma!

    Spring Musical

2011–2012

  • Snow White

    Fall Musical

  • A Little Murder Never Hurt Anybody

    Fall Play

  • The Mikado

    with the FHS Chorus

    Winter Play

  • This Is Where We Came In

    Class A Regional Champion

    Festival

  • Beauty and the Beast

    Spring Musical

2009–2010

  • You're a Good Man, Charlie Brown

    Fall Musical

  • The Beaux' Stratagem

    Fall Play

  • The 13 Clocks

    State runner-up

    Festival

  • Babes in Arms

    Spring Musical

Our History

Forty years in the wings

From a borrowed stage in 1986 to a Maine State Drama Festival mainstay — the milestones that made the company.

1986

The curtain rises

The Theatre Company is founded in Falmouth, Maine with just fourteen students. Over the seasons that follow it becomes a beloved fixture of the town's cultural life — at its height drawing well over a hundred performers, technicians, and volunteers to a single season, with families building sets, sewing costumes, and running the house.

1996–1999

A state powerhouse

The Company becomes a fixture at the Maine State Drama Festival. Two Precious Maidens Ridiculed (1996) and Michael Frayn's Audience (1998) both advance to the New England Drama Festival, and Picasso at the Lapin Agile (1999) carries the Company to the state finals in Bangor — eight trips to states in ten years, and a reputation as 'one of the state's powerhouse theatre companies.'

2005

FESTIVAL, the documentary

Maine filmmakers Jim and Tom Isler release FESTIVAL, a feature documentary following the Company's run through the state one-act competition. It premieres at the Maine International Film Festival and puts a national spotlight on the program.

2009

The Clayton David Thomas Memorial Fund

Following the loss of a beloved former student, the Company establishes the Clayton David Thomas Memorial Fund, awarding scholarships to graduating seniors who carry the work forward.

2014

Charm wins regionals

Kathleen Cahill's Charm takes the Class A regional crown and finishes state runner-up, advancing to the New England Drama Festival — among the program's strongest festival showings of the decade.

2015

Falmouth hosts the Festival

The Company hosts the Maine State Drama Festival on its own stage and competes with an adaptation of Don Quixote, earning a Judges' Commendation for its design — including a memorable hand-built horse and donkey.

2020

The show goes on, online

Thieves' Carnival wins the Class A regional, and Falmouth is set to host the state finals — until the spring closure intervenes. The Company answers by staging Fiddler on the Roof remotely, proving the work could not be stopped, only moved.

Maine State Drama Festival

One-act competition results from the company’s archive, 1996–2020.

1996Two Precious Maidens RidiculedAdvanced to the New England Drama Festival
1998Audience (Michael Frayn)Advanced to the New England Drama Festival
1999Picasso at the Lapin AgileState Finals, Bangor
2004The Good Doctor (Neil Simon)The festival run filmed for the documentary FESTIVAL
2010The 13 ClocksState runner-up
2012This Is Where We Came InRegional Champion · New England Festival
2014CharmRegional Champion · State runner-up
2015Don Quixote4th, Class A · Design Commendation
2016Ring Round the MoonState runner-up
2018Class A Regional Championadvanced to State Finals
2019A View From the BridgeRegional Champion
2020Thieves' CarnivalRegional Champion

The Company

Faculty & alumni

The directors who built the company, and the students whose names live in the festival and cast records.

Dede Waite

Founding Director · 1986

Michela Micalizio

All-Festival Cast, Charm (2014); went on to Boston University and a continuing acting career in Portland-area theatre.

Cole Walsh

All-Festival Cast, Charm (2014) — Thoreau.

Andrew Ostrow

All-Festival Cast, Charm (2014) — Hawthorne.

Ben Rogers

Regional festival cast, Charm (2014) — Emerson.

Isabel Friedman

Festival commendation, Charm (2014).

Izzy Goldberg

Festival commendation, Charm (2014).

Julie Guerra

Festival commendation, Charm (2014).

Izzy Simbari

Festival commendation, Charm (2014).

Emmy Wrobleski

Festival commendation, Charm (2014).

Brooke Bazarian

Festival commendation, Charm (2014).

Jack Warnock

All-Festival Cast award, Drama Festival (2018).

Madeleine Regan

Scenic design recognition, Drama Festival (2018).

Caitlyn Bull

Scenic design recognition, Drama Festival (2018).

Jackson Larlee

Tevye, Fiddler on the Roof (2020).

Billy Myers

Perchick, Fiddler on the Roof (2020).

Annalise Rodrigue

Company senior, Fiddler on the Roof (2020).

Drawn from archival cast lists and Maine State Drama Festival records. The company’s alumni number in the thousands across four decades — these are a few whose names the public record preserves. The earliest rosters (1986–2009) survive only in yearbooks and printed festival programs; if you hold any, we’d love to add those names here.