Founded by five of the current members in the fall of 1994, the Company drew together Boston College graduate students from the English and Irish Studies departments. Since then, they have established a business manager, a public relations team, and they are now in the process of obtaining non-profit status. Their success is a tribute to the dedication that shows in each of the members. The Company is a cooperative experience, offering each participant an opportunity to take part in production, set design and construction, lighting, sound, writing, directing and acting. Koughan, who is the Assistant Director of Faith Healer, says he had no theater experience prior to the Bridge.
All members agree that their broad backgrounds and talents are united by a single vision.
We want to produce plays that have dynamic characters and a powerful theme, and we want to produce plays that are typically unseen, like Faith Healer. I think that's one thing the Company does that's very valuable. The purpose of art is to tell the truth in an imaginative way. We seek out the kind of plays that do that in ways that conventional plays don't. We choose plays that don't tend to have the commercial potential that you see in other theaters.