UTP makes and presents compelling new performance works, inspired by real people and their lives. Grounded in a social and political context, our work grapples with what it is to live in urban Australia and how this connects with the rest of the world. We work with both emerging and experienced artists, challenging notions of what theatre can be, who it can be by and who it is for.

UTP draws upon a 30-year lineage of distinctive new theatre works based on a process of dialogue between contemporary theatre practice and diverse communities. Stories and images of contemporary life are created in collaboration with teams of artists from hybrid art practices and diverse cultural backgrounds.

Intimacy, connectedness and the awkwardness of personal, political and social relationships sit at the heart of UTP's work. Our work articulates and reveals our contemporary state with which audiences, artists, communities and individuals engage.

Urban Theatre Projects, one of Australia's more intrepid and experimental performance companies. -

Bryce Hallett, SMH

UTP is based at the Bankstown Arts Centre in Bankstown, western Sydney. It's a transnational village centre with constantly shifting populations of Indigenous, established and emerging migrant communities, and as such reflects the mobility of contemporary Australian urban life and culture.

In 2002, UTP was awarded the Sidney Myer Award in recognition of the company's outstanding contribution to Australian theatre.