The Alley was founded over 70 years ago as Houston’s theatre company. It exists to provide audiences with the highest quality theatre, offering a wide variety of work including new plays, classics, the re-discovered and the rarely-performed, and new musical theatre, with an emphasis on new American works – to provide the inspirational and the provocative – to make our audiences think, feel, dream, and be entertained.

The Alley Theatre is one of the few American Theatre companies that supports a company of actors, designers, artisans and craftspeople throughout the year. Our productions are built and rehearsed in the Alley Theatre Center for Theatre Production – a 75,000-square-foot facility adjacent to the theatres themselves – that is state-of-the-art and one of the most complete and largest facilities of its kind anywhere.

The mission of the Alley Theatre, under the direction of Artistic Director Rob Melrose and Managing Director Dean Gladden, is to deepen the understanding of ourselves, one another, and the world we share by uniting theatre artists and audiences to experience the power of stories that illuminate the breadth and complexities of the human condition.

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Dean R. Gladden

Nina Saunders

Kirsten Weber

Christie Debacker

M.k. Graham

Katie Maddox Clayton

Michael Bell

Don Poole

Deborah Lackey Cfre

Sajal Javid Shrm-Scp, Msw

Danyel Siler

Mary Sutton

Cathy Bencivenga

The Leadership Team at Alley Theatre is responsible for shaping the strategic direction and ensuring the operational excellence of the organization. This includes overseeing human resources, financial management, technological infrastructure, marketing, and development efforts to support the theatre's mission. The team collaborates to create an environment that fosters artistic innovation and strengthens the connection between the theatre and its diverse audience.

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