Manbites Dog Theater, a professional non-profit theater company founded in Durham in October 1987, serves the Triangle area of central North Carolina. Manbites Dog's purpose is to produce new and challenging theatrical events; showcase and nurture developing playwrights, directors, actors, and artists; facilitate cross-disciplinary and cross-community projects; and help strengthen this region's theatrical community.

In March 1997 Manbites Dog purchased a 6,500 square foot building on Foster Street near downtown Durham to serve as a permanent performance space for the company. The building opened to the public in fall 1998.

Manbites Dog has mounted more than 80 productions in the last 22 seasons, many of them regional or state premieres, as well as a broad range of local and national guest artists and companies in the Other Voices series. The 2009-2010 season, our twenty-third, will includes five Manbites Dog productions, as well as exciting presentations by guest companies in our Other Voices Series.

Manbites Dog's company-originated original productions over the years have included Indecent Materials, Hotline, Walking Miracles, A Tune for Tommy, Plays Well With Others, plus the 2003 world premiere of Bucknaked: a love story. Other Manbites Dog events have included Don't Ask Don't Tell presentations of queer theater and performance.; and PuzzleHunt, a free, outdoor, interactive performance event held every few years in downtown Durham.

Manbites Dog Theater’s 2009-2010 season is made possible in part through gifts to the Durham Arts Council's Annual Arts Fund; and by grants from the NC Arts Council, an agency funded by the Department of Cultural Resources and the National Endowment for the Arts, which believes that a great nation deserves great art.

STAFF
Jeff Storer, Artistic Director
Edward Hunt, Associate Artistic Director, Managing Director
Jay O'Berski, Associate Artistic Director

BOARD OF DIRECTORS
Michael Hayes, President
Edward Hunt, Treasurer
John Martin
Gregor McElvogue
Edith McMillan
Alice Sharpe
Jeff Storer

(c) 2001-2010 Manbites Dog Theater Company, Durham, NC