Mission

Gum-Dip Theatre's mission is to celebrate, challenge, and reinvent community identity through choose-what-you-pay performances, story circles, workshops, and multicultural events.

Values

Gum-Dip Theatre creates theatre as a vehicle for practicing different factual and imaginary versions of oneself, for representing the narratives that are often ignored, and for elevating voices and identities that are not included in the mainstream.

What does "Gum-Dip" mean?

Gum dipping was a tire process used by the Firestone Tire and Rubber Company. They dipped all the cords and fibers in rubber gum before making the plies of the tire. Gum dipping a tire made it blowout-proof.

As gum dipping is to a tire, we hope to strengthen community through our own process. Gum-Dip Theatre also reclaims the name as a nod to the industrial history of the Rust Belt.