Creede Repertory Theatre

About the Organization

Founded in 1966, Creede Repertory Theatre is a professional theatre company located at 9,000 feet in the San Juan Mountains of Colorado. CRT’s award-winning company produces big city quality productions in this spectacular location from May through September. Each season, CRT produces 7-10 plays in rotating repertory, hosts numerous musical events and concerts, exhibits the best regional artists in its two lobby galleries, and offers nationally recognized educational programming. USA TODAY...

Founded in 1966, Creede Repertory Theatre is a professional theatre company located at 9,000 feet in the San Juan Mountains of Colorado. CRT’s award-winning company produces big city quality productions in this spectacular location from May through September. Each season, CRT produces 7-10 plays in rotating repertory, hosts numerous musical events and concerts, exhibits the best regional artists in its two lobby galleries, and offers nationally recognized educational programming. USA TODAY called us “one of the 10 best places to see the lights way off Broadway” and THE DENVER POST hailed CRT as “legendary” and “one of the state’s top five theatre companies.”

  • Creede Repertory Theatre received over 250 submissions for our 2017 Headwaters New Play Festival. q u e r e n c i a: an imagined autobiography about forbidden fruits was one of our 12 Finalists. The play explores the deepest issues of sexual identity, isolation, and tradition. Benne writes with a bold, incisive style. There's a poetic dimension that lifts q u e r e n c i a above other coming of age stories. Filled with gutsy theatricality and raw emotion, our readers were captivated from page one.

    Creede Repertory Theatre received over 250 submissions for our 2017 Headwaters New Play Festival. q u e r e n c i a: an imagined autobiography about forbidden fruits was one of our 12 Finalists. The play explores the deepest issues of sexual identity, isolation, and tradition. Benne writes with a bold, incisive style. There's a poetic dimension that lifts q u e r e n c i a above other coming of age stories. Filled with gutsy theatricality and raw emotion, our readers were captivated from page one.