Founded in 2000, Bread & Water Theatre is committed to making the arts accessible and affordable to a broad based audience and acting as a positive agent of change in its community.  Under the artistic direction of J.R. Teeter, BWT develops theatre that speaks to our living, evolving, and dramatically-changing world through new works of drama and aspires to be a major force in American theatre, providing audiences with challenging contemporary drama and innovative community outreach programs.

Through new works of theatre, Bread & Water Theatre seeks to dramatize the struggle of the average American for knowledge about his country and his world in a tradition first started by the Living Newspaper, an organization first started in 1935.

It is this theatre's goal to dramatize the struggle of people against the great natural and economic forces of the time moving toward a better life for more people everywhere.