History of Plays
Awards and Recognitions
Board of Directors
and Advisors
Education and Outreach
Opportunities
About Us
History
Founded by Bain Boehlke in 1991 in a storefront space at the corner of Lake Street and Lyndale Avenue in South Minneapolis, the Jungle Theater quickly established a loyal following and received widespread critical acclaim for its productions. In 1999, the theater moved into its permanent home: an intimate 150-seat space around the corner from its original location. In addition to the Jungle's main stage productions of classic and contemporary plays, the theater also maintains community arts education and outreach programs which serve the Greater Metro area, and reflect the theater's ongoing commitment to neighborhood and community.
Over the past 21 years, the Jungle Theater has had a substantial impact on the Twin Cities theater scene, having established a reputation for excellence that stems from a commitment to high artistic standards and the contributions of many respected and celebrated local artists. A flagship example of the transformative power of the performing arts, the Jungle plays a continuing and vital role in the Lyn-Lake neighborhood's economic, social, and cultural development.
Mission and Vision
Mission Statement
The Jungle Theater creates dynamic, world-class theater, bringing an artistic depth and poetic fire to plays drawn from our rich theatrical heritage as well as from the body of work written in our own time.
Vision Statement
The Jungle aspires to:
Create definitive productions that engender an intimate yet powerful relationship between actor and audience, transforming lives with the undeniable magic of the living theater;
Enrich its role as an active and catalytic partner in the cultural and economic life of the neighborhood in which it resides.
Values
We believe that great theater offers entertainment, enrichment, inspiration and hope.
We value the theater artist, whose task is the transformation of the realities of human experience into poetic truth.
We invest in rigorous attention to detail in all areas of theater production, knowing it is essential to transcendent work.
We act in collaboration, believing a partnership between the administrative and artistic arms of the theater is essential.
We seek to operate the organization from a position of financial strength and fiscal responsibility.