Based on the principles of YES!, the aim of The Playhouse is to provide a creative home and inspiring environment where actors, directors, writers, designers and theatre lovers converge to create works that celebrate the human spirit.

The word “family” is central to what this new theatre means to us. All the actors, directors, designers, and technicians we have worked with over the years and want to work with again, and all the playgoers who have supported our work over the years are members of this family that make our theatre possible.

We hope to create a warm and nurturing environment for the sharing of dreams, secrets, fears, hopes, grief, and joy because it’s safe to bring all of ourselves to this PLAYHOUSE. To discover we have more in common than we have apart, to replace judgment and disdain with understanding and compassion.

We invite you to join our family, to play with us, cry with us, laugh with us, reach with us, touch us and be touched by us.

Through The Playhouse, founders Susi Damilano and Bill English achieved their dream of not only running their own theatre, but THE theater they'd been coveting for years—a beautiful but neglected 1910 Greek revival owned by the An family of Crustacean Restaurant fame. The generosity of the An family and the tenacity of Karen Houk, their manager, allowed Susi and Bill to bring The Playhouse from fantasy to reality, and now, joined by their daughter Lauren, have found a home for their theatre family.