Stephenville Theatre Festival

What Stephenville Theatre Festival does

Stephenville Theatre Festival is a Canadian non-profit theatre organization founded in 1979 and headquartered in Stephenville, Newfoundland. Per the firmographic data, it operates with 11-50 employees and self-describes its mission as enriching the local economic, artistic, and cultural sectors through theatrical programming. As a regional performing-arts company, it operates in the live-theatre production space, serving local audiences in Stephenville and the surrounding Western Newfoundland region.

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Name

Stephenville Theatre Festival

Website

https://stephenvilletheatrefestival.com

Company type

Private

Founded year

1978

Headcount range

11–50 employees

Short description

Stephenville Theatre Festival is a Canadian non-profit theatre company founded in 1979 in Stephenville, Newfoundland, operating with 11-50 employees to produce theatrical works that contribute to the local economic, artistic, and cultural sectors.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Product category

Live Theatre / Performing Arts

NAICS

Theater Companies and Dinner Theaters (711110), Performing Arts Companies (7111), Performing Arts, Spectator Sports, and Related Industries (711)

SIC

Services-Amusement & Recreation Services (7900)

akta.pro primary industry

Regional & Repertory Theatre Companies (MPAGABAB)

akta.pro secondary industries

Touring Theatre Productions (MPAGABAC), Theater & Performing Arts Venue Operations (Playhouses, Opera Houses) (MPAGALAB), Performing Arts Organizations (Theater, Dance, Opera, Music) (BPAGAHAB)

Keywords

• Live theatre performances
• Performing arts festivals
• Community theatre productions
• Non-profit arts organization
• Stage entertainment

Headquarters

HQ city

Stephenville

HQ country

Canada

HQ region

North America

Markets served

GTM type

B2C

Offering type

Services

Cost components

Personnel, Operations, Marketing or Sales

Core offering

Stephenville Theatre Festival is a non-profit theatre company that produces and presents live theatrical productions for the public. Founded in 1979 and based in Stephenville, Canada, the organization enriches the economic, artistic, and cultural sectors through its performing arts programming.

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Direct peers

• Citadel Theatre: Edmonton-based regional theatre company producing a multi-show season. Comparable as a Canadian regional repertory theatre with similar production scheduling, ticketing, and nonprofit funding structure.
• Belfry Theatre: Victoria, BC-based regional theatre producing contemporary plays in an intimate venue. Comparable small-to-mid-scale Canadian regional repertory theatre operating on a seasonal nonprofit model.
• Neptune Theatre: Regional theatre company based in Halifax, Nova Scotia, producing a season of plays and musicals. Directly comparable as a Canadian regional repertory theatre with comparable scale and nonprofit operating model.
• Manitoba Theatre Centre: Winnipeg-based regional theatre producing a season of plays and musicals. Comparable as a Canadian regional repertory theatre with comparable scale and operating model, though serving a larger urban market.
• Arts Club Theatre Company: Vancouver-based nonprofit theatre company producing multiple productions across several venues. Comparable nonprofit regional theatre with similar operating model and reliance on ticket sales, donations, and grants.
• Theatre Calgary: Calgary-based regional theatre producing a season of plays and musicals. Comparable as a Canadian city-based repertory theatre company operating on the same seasonal, nonprofit production model as Stephenville.

Broad incumbents

• Shaw Festival: Niagara-on-the-Lake-based repertory theatre festival with a season-long production model. Highly comparable operating template to Stephenville as a Canadian seasonal regional theatre company, though significantly larger in budget and audience.
• Stratford Festival: Canada's largest and best-known regional repertory theatre festival, operating annually in Stratford, Ontario. Direct comparability: same nonprofit regional festival model producing multiple theatrical productions per season, though at materially larger scale than Stephenville.

Regional players

• Theatre Newfoundland and Labrador (Corner Brook): Western Newfoundland's longstanding professional theatre company based in Corner Brook. Closest geographic and demographic peer to Stephenville, serving a similar small-market Newfoundland audience with seasonal theatrical productions.
• Resource Centre for the Arts (St. John's): Newfoundland-based multidisciplinary arts organization producing theatre and presenting performing arts. Same-province peer operating on a comparable small-scale nonprofit performing-arts model in a small Newfoundland market.

Market position

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Key risks5 records

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Customer concentration

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