[3] In 2005, Dobama was evicted[4] from the Coventry neighborhood, resuming a nomadic existence, and producing shows at various locations, including the Cleveland Play House.
On September 25, 2009, Dobama inaugurated a new, permanent location at the Cleveland Heights Public Library facility, stewarded by the company's third artistic director, Joel Hammer.
Motta was also the founder of the Dobama Emerging Actors Program, a summer training intensive for high school and college theatre students, where he directed productions of Blood Wedding, Antigone, and The Tempest.
Notable plays that have seen their Cleveland premiere at Dobama Theatre include The Pillowman, The Goat or Who is Sylvia?, The Last Five Years, The Larame Project, Closer, Wit, How I Learned to Drive, All in the Timing, Top Girls, Marvin's Room, Speed the Plow, Cloud Nine, True West, Catch 22, Roots, On the Verge, God of Carnage, 4000 Miles, The Flick, An Octoroon, Hand to God, and the first professional Cleveland production of Angels in America.
Dobama Theatre is known for its annual Marilyn Bianchi Kids' Playwriting Festival, open to Cuyahoga County students in grades 1 through 12.