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saskatchewan was founded in 1966 by ken and sue kramer . it was the first professional educational theatre company . contents 1 background 2 artistic directors 3 see also 4 references 5 external links background edit old post office temporarily a city hall and scarth street mall . the globe was first in the jubilee theatre subsequently remained several times but in the globe theatre s time there most continuously known as hanbidge hall at the saskatchewan centre of the arts and then moved to rented quarters in downtown regina . in 1981 the company acquired its own permanent space in the prince edward building the old regina post office and then for a time the substitute city hall a heritage building on 11th avenue and scarth street . prince edward as a member of the canadian royal family granted his royal patronage to globe theatre in 1992 . the globe theatre is currently under the leadership of artistic director ruth smillie who succeeded susan ferley in 1998 . ferley served as artistic director of the globe theatre from 1990 when ken kramer retired following the death of sue kramer to 1998 . being a non profit organisation the globe theatre is overseen by a volunteer board of directors elected by the members of the globe theatre society . throughout the kramers tenure the globe theatre premiered a large number of new works by playwrights brian way and rex devrell the latter of whom would go on to publish a book of plays from his time at the globe theatre . in more recent years timeframe the globe theatre has seen premiers of works by author playwright gail bowen theatre artist joey tremblay and a variety of young artists through their shumiatcher sandbox series . with an annual operating budget of roughly two million dollars the globe theatre is saskatchewan s largest professional theatre company programming as many as ten productions between its mainstage season and shumiatcher sandbox series . the globe theatre s evraz mainstage is canada s only permanent professional theatre in the round seating 406 patrons . globe theatre is a member of pact professional association of canadian theatres and engages its stage management actors and artists under the canadian theatre agreement cta through the canadian actors equity association . the globe theatre is greatly involved in the development of new talent and boasts a popular theatre school program for children and adolescents and an actor conservatory program for adults to train the next series of professional actors and develop a company within the regina area . artistic directors edit ken kramer 1966 1989 susan ferley 1989 1998 ruth smillie 1998 present see also edit globe theatre of shakespeare list of canadian organizations with royal patronage saskatchewan royal connections culture in regina references edit external links edit official website wikimedia commons has media related to globe theatre regina . retrieved from https en.wikipedia.org w index.php title globe theatre regina & oldid 741523060 categories 1966 establishments in saskatchewanculture of regina saskatchewantheatre companies in saskatchewanorganizations based in canada with royal patronagevisitor attractions in regina saskatchewanhidden categories wikipedia articles with possible conflicts of interest from december 2010articles lacking sources from september 2012all articles lacking sourcesuse dmy dates from december 2010 navigation menu personal tools not logged intalkcontributionscreate accountlog in namespaces article talk variants views read edit view history more search navigation main pagecontentsfeatured contentcurrent eventsrandom articledonate to wikipediawikipedia store interaction helpabout wikipediacommunity portalrecent changescontact page tools what links hererelated changesupload filespecial pagespermanent linkpage informationwikidata itemcite this page print export create a bookdownload as pdfprintable version languages add links this page was last modified on 28 september 2016 at 01 36 . 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