Dean Gilmour and Michele Smith met in 1978 while studying at the School of Jacques Lecoq in Paris, France. In 1980, they formed the company and since have created 30 shows, 16 of which were original plays. The company has toured across Canada several times and to 14 countries throughout Europe and Asia.

Our work has been nominated for 24 Dora Awards (winning 5) as well as being nominated twice for the Chalmers' Best Canadian Play Award. In 2000-2001, Chekhov's shortsplayed a total of 22 sold-out weeks with rave reviews at the Factory Theatre in Toronto, the Firehall Arts Centre in Vancouver, Workshop West in Edmonton, the Hong Kong Cultural Arts Centre in Hong Kong, Eastern Front Theatre in Dartmouth and the Saidye Bronfman Arts Centre in Montreal. The show returned to Vancouver for two weeks in March 2002.

Part II of the Chekhov Cycle, Chekhov longsIn The Ravine enjoyed a virtually sold-out run at Toronto's Factory theatre in February 2002 and was presented at Carrefour International Theatre Festival in Quebec City in May 2002, The Magnetic North Theatre Festival in Ottawa and the Festival des Ameriques in Montreal in May/June 2003. Part III of the Chekhov Cycle, Dr. Chekhov: Ward 6 premiered at the Factory Theatre in 2004 and Part IV, Chekhov's Heartache premiered at the Factory Theatre in 2005 and was remounted there in 2006.

In 2007 Smith and Gilmour travelled to Shanghai, China to create and perform Lu Xun blossoms with three actors from the Shanghai Dramatic Arts Centre and three actors from Canada. This show is the first ever Sino-Canadian co-production in theatre. In 2008, the world premiere of Katherine Mansfield was presented in Toronto, to great acclaim and revisited in Spring of 2009. In October 2009, Michelle and Dean partnered with Adam Paolozza and Ravi Jain for the incredibly successful run of SPENT!.

Smith and Gilmour are currently developing a play based on the stories of the Brothers Grimm. Grimm too will be presented in association with Factory Theatre in February 2010.