“We conduct auditions in New York and Los Angeles and also rely heavily on local talent,” noted Adam Park, previous interim managing director at BCT.
Boise Contemporary Theater "inspires our community to examine our perspectives and better understand ourselves, each other, and the world around us by creating thought-provoking stories of the human experience.
As of 2024, BCT has launched their "Setting the Stage" capital campaign to renovate the historic theater and add an onsite pub for patrons.
In November of that year, along with actors he had met the previous summer working for the Idaho Shakespeare Festival, he co-produced and performed in Lone Star by James McLure in the basement of The Mode Building in Downtown Boise.
When Clark saw that there was an audience for professional contemporary theater in his home town, Boise Contemporary Theater was born and four more plays in four different venues were produced: Danny and the Deep Blue Sea by John Patrick Shanley (Neurolux and The Flying M Coffeehouse), All in the Timing by David Ives (Esther Simplot Performing Arts Academy), the World Premiere of Drive Me by Maria Dahvana Headley (Baccus Cabaret) and Lonely Planet by Steven Dietz (Stage II of The Morrison Center).
Formally a seed house built in 1935, by October 2000, the Fulton street location was transformed into a theater facility with a main-stage, classrooms, rehearsal loft and office space.
On October 12, 2000, BCT premiered its first production in a newly renovated theater on Fulton street in the heart of Boise's Cultural District: Steve Martin's Picasso At The Lapin Agile, directed by Artistic Director and Founder Matthew Cameron Clark.
[1] BCT has had two productions directed by filmmaker Michael Hoffman: The Cherry Orchard by Anton Chekhov[4] and Waiting for Godot by Samuel Beckett (co-directed with Matthew Cameron Clark).
Theater Lab, a program focused on youth ages 12-18, guides participants through creating, writing, designing, producing, and ultimately performing a play.