To provide a means for the public to experience the collaboration of a community of artists.

To give a voice to all artists.

To understand and include diverse perspectives .

To build community.

Bughouse Theater is a collection of artists, actors, writers, and filmmakers who decided to create a new venue for themselves and their community.

We are dedicated to building Ensembles, with the belief that a group of connected, supportive individuals can accomplish great things on stage and screen, in their communities and in their own lives.

We are dedicated to the enrichment of communities through the arts and the enrichment of the arts through community.

We are dedicated to the principle of the artist owned venue.

The name "Bughouse" is taken from Chicago's Bughouse Square, a gathering place for orators, free speech advocates and rabblerousers of old. "Bughouse" was slang for mental institution, and seemed to fit the cast of characters that frequented the square. It is in the spirit of that place that we hope to establish ourselves.