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For a company as vibrant, enthusiastic, and whimsical as Makeshift Theatre Company, its humble beginning is rather unremarkable. In fact, the origin of MTC is no grander than a man waiting tables at nine o'clock on a Tuesday night in the spring of 2005 at a restaurant in Cambridge. His name was Andrew Rhodes.
After a miserable evening of table scrubbing, Andrew was suddenly struck with an epiphany: with twelve years of theatrical training and performance to his credit, having performed all over the nation, having had the desire to start his own theatre company since his undergraduate years, why shouldn't he do that now?
An hour later, Andrew Rhodes, seated in the Beacon Hill Tavern on Charles Street, had drawn up a plan for a company; a sort of thrown-together, make-shift company, but a company nonetheless. Its commitment was to affordable, high-quality theatre that would entertain and engage audiences of all
ages and excite a new generation of theatre-goers.
In June of 2005, Andrew, joined by graphic artist Shauna Fritsch, Larry Leggett, and an intern named Nero, formed TRiBE for CHiLDREN, a division of a larger artistic company in Boston at the time. In October, they opened their first season with Jack Neary's Robin Hood and by the spring of 2006, TRiBE for CHiLDREN had become the Makeshift Theatre Company, which continues to produce entertaining and engaging theatre for audiences of all ages to this very day.