Specialties
Auburn Public Theater is an intimate, publicly accessible and affordable theater space in downtown Auburn, New York, that challenges and educates our community and fosters creative growth through shared performance experiences.
Performing Arts:
Through its Producing and Presenting Series, Auburn Public Theater brings national touring acts, live music, musical theater, plays, and comedians to our 200-seat Mainstage for compelling and diverse programming throughout the year.
Film:
Auburn Public Cinema is an independent, non-profit, 65-seat art house cinema that engages the community by providing affordable and accessible cinema programming to a diverse range of community members. Auburn Public Cinema seeks to increase film literacy and cinema appreciation through the screening of independent, documentary, foreign, classic and family films in an comfortable, convenient downtown theater with the highest quality digital projection and HD sound.
Education:
Auburn Public Theater offers year-round learning opportunities through its educational arm, Auburn Public Studio, an accessible and affordable studio space, offering ongoing, dynamic programs in dance, theater, music and writing for young people ages 3-18 and adults. Auburn Public Studio challenges and educates our community's children and fosters creative growth for all through shared performance experiences.
History
Established in 2005.
On December 7, 2005, Auburn Public Theater opened its doors to the public for an Open House. More than five hundred people came and took a tour and, since then, more than one hundred thousand patrons have come through the doors of APT.
It is our wish, the wish of all of us involved with Auburn Public Theater, that fifty or one hundred years from now programming will be going strong, the number of people through the doors will be in the millions, downtown Auburn will be the thriving city center it once was and has always deserved to be, and those people running the place will have as much fun working together as all of us have had dreaming it into existence.
Meet the Business Owner: Carey E.
Carey comes to Central New York from NY/Los Angeles, following a 25 year professional career as an actor, teacher, writer and director. He has a BA in Theater and Economics from Bucknell University. Carey studied acting at The Neighborhood Playhouse with Sanford Meisner and then with Wynn Handman of the American Place Theater. He was most recently seen at Syracuse Stage in their production of The Boys Next Door. Off-Broadway: Wild Oats (premiere), Home Movies, Twelfth Night. National Tour: The Wizard of Oz. Company member: Neighborhood Group Theater. LA: As You Like It, Channels (premiere). Played Sir Edward Ramsey in The King and I at The Merry Go Round Playhouse. A veteran of over 50 television shows and films, Carey has worked with many of the top professionals in the entertainment industry.
Television credits include Everybody Loves Raymond, The Amanda Show, 7th Heaven, General Hospital, Diagnosis Murder, 3rd Rock From The Sun, Yes Dear, Melrose Place, LA Law and many more.