The company's inaugural production, a sold-out run of Jean-Paul Sartre's No Exit in September 1990, was also the inaugural production in the Gunston Arts Center, a former junior high school library which had just been renovated as a performing arts center by the Arlington Department of Parks, Recreation and Community Resources.

The first play which Prewitt directed as artistic director was Pinter's No Man's Land, with Hemmingsen and Henley in the lead roles (Hirst and Spooner, respectively).

[15] In February 2021, Avant Bard formed a collaborative leadership team of five producing partners: Sara Barker, Megan Behm, Alyssa Sanders, DeMone Seraphin, and Dina Soltan.

[16] In August 2023, the collaborative leadership team changed to three producing partners: Sara Barker, Alyssa Sanders, and Kathleen Akerley.

[19] In February, 2006, John Vreeke directed a production of Death and the King's Horseman, by Nigerian playwright and author Wole Soyinka.

[21][22][23] In November, 2012, Tom Prewitt (shortly before being named artistic director) directed a production of Six Characters in Search of an Author, by Luigi Pirandello.

[26][27] In September 2015, Avant Bard presented Friendship Betrayed by María de Zayas, a Spanish Golden Age playwright in a translation by Catherine Larson, based on the edition by Valerie Hegstrom.

[28] In May 2017, Avant Bard presented Shakespeare's King Lear, featuring prominent DC actor Rick Foucheaux in the title role.

Avant Bard has mounted full productions of a handful of SiP scripts in the past and has continued relationships with many of the festival's participating playwrights.

[44] George Takei did not reprise his appearance, but Fry himself took part in the Klingon version of the final scene of Hamlet, playing the role of Osric in costume.

Most recently, Avant Bard presented a staged reading of A Klingon Christmas Carol at the District of Columbia Jewish Community Center's Theatre J, on December 15, 2014.

This performance featured Marc Okrand, inventor of the Klingon language (and president of the company's board of directors), as Scrooge (SQuja').

Given from a trust fund established by alumni of the Theatre Lobby company, the awards "were given for theatrical excellence without regard to category.