Factory Theatre
Factory Theatre is a theatre in Toronto founded as Factory Theatre Lab in 1970 by Ken Gass and Frank Trotz. Factory was the first theatre to announce that it would exclusively produce Canadian plays, but it soon became a widely emulated policy by other theatre companies. Factory quickly became known as the home of the Canadian playwright, and is especially associated with George F. Walker, most of whose plays premiered there. In 1999, the company was able to buy the Bathurst Street building in which it had been housed for past two decades, and it continues to make a vital contribution to Canadian theatre.