UpstART seeks to Awaken, Enliven & Entertain audiences in Ouray County and beyond by presenting professional theater and education through a Rural/Urban collaboration of artists. We produce 3-4 shows each year, bringing professional actors and other theater artists to Ouray for short, intensive rehearsal processes that culminate in performances of a quality hard to find outside of metro areas. We choose modern scripts that are intense and moving and often hilarious, everything from a sincere classic like Our Town to a zany physical comedy like Hold On To Your Butts (a parody of Jurassic Park). We also bring a No Holds Bard production of a Shakespeare play to the Wright each summer – the most recent three were Othello, As You Like it, and The Merchant of Venice.