Our Mission

Teatro Vista is a non-profit theatre-based company dedicated to multidisciplinary artists of color whose artistic expression on stage and beyond is rooted in the transformative power of owning and telling our own stories.

IMPACT

Since 1991, our intention has been to cultivate Latine and artists of color  into their excellence. We push our ensemble into innovative storytelling that uses the tenets of theatre to create live stage performances, film and media arts. We empower these artists into growing their resume beyond the stage and into executive leadership positions in the entertainment industry to be the representation we all seek. Our commitment to professional development opens up access to equity, not only within the company but out to the community at large. 

CORE IDEOLOGY

We empower the artist to own their own stories, to share their experience and to reflect back to the community we stand in. We do so by creating:

A Legacy of Change

  • We facilitate the sharing of resources with our artists to create an incubator that offers opportunities to grow the artist's resume and position them into leadership within the entertainment industry. When those artists grow into leadership, they turn around and open up that access for the next generation, creating a legacy of change.

Stories that Start with Us

  • The depth and breadth of the Latine/x community through the viewfinder of American life can give way to a multiplicity of experiences.

  • We encourage artists to tell their stories boldly. Through the access of our resources and shared industry experience, we offer the artist various modes of artistic expression that may grow the seed of their ideas. It can be planted and cultivated into excellence by journeying it via a sonic experience through your headphones, engaging with audiences directly through its aesthetic on social media, or workshopping it with top notch designers into a live stage experience. 

  • Teatro Vista is committed to finding the best way to develop the artist’s content into its most genuine expression.

Inclusion at Every Level

  • We drive artists to "write what you know" to "make your own" and to do so by disrupting mainstream narratives about who we are. We believe whatever the artist of color designs is innately genius, we do not ask them to fit into a mold that doesn’t feel authentic to their experience.

  • By including other identities that intersect with the Latine community, we are creating an archive of our shared history. 

Abundance

  • We are committed to the revolutionary impact of inclusion, we recognize that we won’t always get it right, but it is the journey to inclusion that is the most important. 

  • We empower artists with the resources they need to thrive in the industry, we are changing what the “top” looks like, which will ripple out into authentic representations of us on stage and screen.

  • We ask the community we stand in, “what do you need to thrive?” 

  • We engage with theater and media organizations as well as with local businesses and nonprofits, in order to plant seeds in the community that create a legacy of reciprocity.