TheatreWorks was founded by San Francisco Bay Area native Robert Kelley in 1970 as a theatre arts workshop for teenage and college students. TheatreWorks is one of America’s outstanding professional theatres whose work celebrates the human spirit through innovative productions, new works and education programs inspired by and engaging the diverse Silicon Valley community. A pioneer in diversity programming, a welcoming home to world and regional premieres, and an acclaimed source of new works for the American stage, TheatreWorks is the nationally-acclaimed theatre of Silicon Valley. In June of 2019, TheatreWorks received the American Theatre Wing’s Tony Award for Regional Theatre.