Theatre of Dare: Cultivating Creativity and Connection to the Community
Kelsey Thompson, Business Director for Theatre of Dare. (Photo credit: Brian Tress) Lobby billboard at the Kitty Hawk theater showing numerous volunteer opportunities. (Photo credit: Brian Tress)
By Brian Tress | Outer Banks Voice
In its initial years in the early 1990s, Theatre of Dare – the Outer Banks’ very own community theater – was a caravan of performers traveling from venue to venue across the Northern OBX. According to Kelsey Thompson, 43, Business Director for the organization, “We were always a nomadic theater. For the longest time, we used the old middle school auditorium at the College of the Albermarle. When it was torn down, we needed to find a place each time we did a show. We used the Lost Colony