Cloud Nine Theatre Company was established in 1997 by the North eastern playwright Peter Mortimer. The Company's aim is to produce only new theatre, commissioned only from Northern writers and to endeavour to take live theatre to places other theatre companies would not contemplate.

The Company achieved that aim in 2004 when it walked a play called “Off the Wall” the entire length of Hadrian's Wall giving 11 performances along an 84 mile stretch of the wall in various unusual venues in small remote communities.

In the summer of 2005 the Company produced probably the first play spread over a week and written for early morning commuters. The play “Ships that Pass” written by Alex Ferguson was performed in five minute episodes on the Shields Ferry as it crossed the river Tyne Monday to Friday during the week 4th to 10th July.

Cloud Nine has commissioned work from (amongst others) Julia Darling, Kitty Fitzgerald, Tom Hadaway, Steve Chambers, Valerie Laws, Peter Mortimer and Sean O'Brien.

The Company runs a regular series of Playdays, which workshop and perform extracts of new writers' work. We have also toured the regions pubs and small venues performing 4 different versions of our revue show Comedy Bites, where again we hold sketch workshops with new writers to encourage new material. Our new comedy show Laughter Factory toured in July/August 2007. Our plays are mainly professional productions, though we continue to produce community plays, such as 2007's Kat among the Pidgeons, workshopped, acted and produced by our Sixties Group which continues to thrive. Latest professional production, The Selkie, premiered at Sage Gateshead and toured the north from Berwick to York for two weeks, in February 2008. Peter Mortimer's RIOT was performed at South Shields, and also in Liverpool as part of the Arabic Arts Festival.

The Company is funded by various organisations including the Arts Council of England North East, Northern Rock Foundation and the Community Foundation .The Selkie was sponsored by Colette Stroud Solicitors.

We are always keen to become involved in new initiatives so please do contact us with your comments and ideas.

Contact Peter Mortimer, Artistic Director, on cloudninetheatre@blueyonder.co.uk