WHAT AND WHY

Founded in 2014 by Matt White and Carin Lowerison, Green Light Arts is a producing theatre company based in Waterloo Region.
We deliver well-crafted, provocative theatrical projects and pair artistic programming with purposeful outreach events to deepen community conversations about the ideas we put on stage.
Through rigorous professional practice we uphold and further the artform of theatre. Through the artform of theatre, we enrich the social fabric of our community.
“We make great theatre that isn’t afraid to lean into challenging topics that inspire you/audiences to have conversations that need to be had”. — Matt White, Founding Artistic Director
Green Light Arts uses theatre to help make sense of the world, explore the challenges of contemporary society, illuminate hope, fuel possibility, and ignite imagination.
To increase the public's appreciation of the arts through well-crafted, provocative, and entertaining theatrical productions that explore the social issues of our time;
The advancement of education in the arts through instruction and arts training;
To uphold and further the professional theatre industry in our community;

Photo by Jeremy Singer of Guarded Girls 2016 workshop featuring Vivien Endicott-Douglas and Michaela Washburn