Project Discovery, Trinity Rep's pioneering educational outreach program launched in 1966, annually introduces over 15,000 Rhode Island, Massachusetts, and Connecticut high school students to live theater through matinees as well as in-school residencies and workshops (See: YASI).

[1] Trinity Rep was founded when a small group of Rhode Island citizens sought to create a professional resident theater company in Providence.

Incorporated as "The Foundation for Repertory Theater of Rhode Island, Inc." on March 21, 1963,[6] the group hired Adrian Hall, a New York-based director originally from Texas.

Operating along with the MFA playwriting, it has emerged as one of the nation's best theater conservatories, continuously ranked top-five schools with NYU, Yale, Juilliard and ACT.

[1][8][9] The dismantled pieces of the prefabricated ANTA Washington Square Theatre were purchased by Yale University for the Trinity Repertory Company, one which artistic director Adrian Hall later called a "bold, silly move".