About The Company

Imaginary Theatre is a Brisbane based, non-profit company with big ideas. Founded in 2006 by a collective of mainly emerging artists, Imaginary has grown into a developing force within Queensland's theatre and youth arts landscape, with over 20,000 children and carers attending its performances. Imaginary's mission is to create world-class art for children and young people, and through a suite of performance, workshop, research and community engagement projects, stimulate imagination and creativity, promote multiple literacies and celebrate cultural diversity.

In the past four years the company's work has been focused on the development of innovative theatrical adaptations of the 'Tashi' stories for children by Australian author Anna Fienberg. Company members have been developing these stories since 2004, when they were first commissioned for the Out of the Box Festival. The TASHI performances have since been presented in a series of seasons for Brisbane Powerhouse, the Seoul International Children's Book Festival, the 2006 Out of the Box Festival, Merrigong Theatre Company, Brisbane Festival 2006 & 2009 and the 2009 Sydney Children's Festival. In 2010, TASHI will embark on a 5 state tour of Australia.

The coming years will also see Imaginary Theatre produce a suite of diverse new works. Co-founder Thom Browning will be creating digital installation work including his 2009 work Giants Among Us. Also, a suite of new performance projects for 2-5 year olds are underway through the Play Project research initiative, and a brand new performance for the 4-10 age group will begin development in 2010.

Imaginary's ambition is to gain national recognition as a high quality, not for profit organisation promoting the role of the arts in the lives of children and young people, creating and touring its work both nationally and internationally.

We are Company in Residence at Metro Arts and are supported by the MAPS for Artist Program in QLD.