United Players of Vancouver is a long-established community theatre company renowned for its exciting and demanding repertoire of productions. Based in Vancouver, Canada on the unceded territories of the xʷməθkʷəy̓əm (Musqueam), Sḵwx̱wú7mesh (Squamish) and Səl̓ílwətaʔ/Selilwitulh (Tsleil-Waututh) peoples, we are proud to have been bringing audiences high-calibre theatre for sixty-five seasons.
As part of our mandate, we showcase talented emerging actors, directors and technicians, many of whom are graduates of theatre programs from Vancouver and across Canada. United Players provides them with the invaluable opportunity to demonstrate their skills and talents onstage in full view of audiences, theatre critics, and talent agents from local and international companies.
A further part of our mandate is to provide classical and critically-recognized contemporary plays which seldom appear on professional stage because of inherent costs, to an increasingly appreciative and sophisticated audience.
We are also glad to provide opportunities for young people and other members of the community in the many technical and artistic aspects of theatre. With hands-on training, they have built and dressed sets, costumes, designed lighting and sound, and have been crew members in all our productions.
The uniqueness of United Players has been this diverse blend of artists of all ages, experiences and from all walks of life. The result is an exciting, energetic, creative, and fulfilling environment in which dreams can be realized, careers advanced, achievements accomplished, and magic created.
In the spirit of artistic cooperation and mutual respect and advantage, we actively support many local professional and amateur theatres, and many independent film companies and schools, in the loan of space, equipment, costumes, props, and personnel for their respective productions.