Jobsite Theater
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Jobsite Theater is Downtown Tampa's regional theater company, and is the resident theater company of the Tampa Bay Performing Arts Center. Founded in 1998 by David M. Jenkins, Michael Caban, Alan Fessenden, John Lott and Jason Vaughan Evans using the intimate 54-seat Silver Meteor Gallery as their first home, Jobsite moved into the 130-seat Off Center Theater (now the Shimberg Playhouse) as resident theater company in 2003. Jobsite produces a broad range of theater, catering primarily to an under-served audience of 20 and 30-somethings but attracting audiences of all ages. Jobsite has modeled their company, their work and approach primarily off the work of two other companies - the San Francisco Mime Troupe and Chicago's Steppenwolf Theatre. A typical season can have the newest plays from New York and the West End, original works created locally, classics, late-night crowd-pleasing comedies and obscure plays from the dramatic canon.
