Daryl's Playhouse

About Us

We are a theatre company dedicated to taking a deep dive into a playwright's corpus. Each season, we produce a selection of plays by a single playwright.

Who We Are

We build each season around a single playwright — their language, their obsessions, their era. It's a format that rewards company and audience alike: our actors and designers get to live inside one writer's voice across an entire year, and our audiences leave each season having gone deep rather than wide.

One Writer, One Season

Recent and upcoming seasons have been built around some of the twentieth century's defining dramatists:

Leadership

The company is led by Artistic Director Michael Brennan, who has steered Daryl's Playhouse's single-playwright format and the ensemble of actors, directors, and designers who return season after season to bring it to life.

Community & Recognition

Our work has been recognized with three Thornton Award nominations and an Ember Award for Outstanding Production, and supported by a Canada Council for the Performing Arts project grant for new Canadian work and a multi-year partnership with the Toronto Community Foundation. Our Community Access Initiative works to keep every season within reach, regardless of ability to pay.

Get Involved

Our Annual Gala supports the Emerging Artists Fund, helping the next generation of theatre-makers find their footing. Join us for a performance, attend the gala, or reach out to learn more about how to get involved.