JUTE Theatre Company is a Cairns/Gimuy-based theatre company creating, producing and touring new Australian theatre from regional Queensland. Since 1992, JUTE has championed regional artists, stories and audiences through main stage productions, new work development, artist pathways, youth and community programs, and sector-building initiatives including DARTS and RASN. Based at Bulmba-ja Arts Centre in Far North Queensland, JUTE connects local stories to national and international stages, supporting theatre that is artistically ambitious, socially relevant and deeply connected to place.

2026 PRODUCTIONS and PROGRAMS

Actors on bikes
Audience members
Young actors making different faces to the camera
Multicultural Women playing theatre games
Photograph from above looking down at a group of people standing on the theatre floor
3 actors on stage performing in Genius
Actor laying on his back on a rug surrounded by records, books, notes, record player
Book cover Lucky the little bird

IN DEVELOPMENT

Front cover of book Three Dresses
Woman smiling, clasping hands
Dizzy Doolan staring fiercely at the camera

SUPPORTED DEVELOPMENTS

2 female musicians dressed in black, one stood next to grand piano, one sitting holding viola
Colourful beading

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Acknowledgement of Country

JUTE wishes to pay its respects to Elders, past and present, of the lands where we work, live and perform. JUTE acknowledges the Traditional Owners and Custodians of this land as well as the many regional areas we visit, tour and produce work. We recognise that these lands have always been places of art and story-telling.