The Carlos Bulosan Theatre is the longest standing Filipino theatre company in Canada. CBT was founded in 1982 (under the name, Carlos Bulosan Cultural Workshop) as a cultural wing of CAMD, the North America-wide Coalition Against the Marcos Dictatorship. In the ensuing years, CBT staged the following productions:

• Carding (1984, 1986) a play about a Filipino immigrant in Canada
• If My Mother Could See Me Now/Inay Kung Alam Mo Lang (1989,1990) a play about domestic workers
• Ten Fingers/Sampung Mga Daliri (1991) a historical interplay of characters depicting the Philippines past and present
• Carlos Bulosan: A Trilogy (1992) a play about the life and works of Carlos Bulosan, a Filipino immigrant in North America
• Home Sweet Home (1993-1994) a play about violence against women in the Filipino-Canadian community
• Noong Kapanahunan Ko…Not On My Time (1994) a play about our generational gap
• No Boundaries (1995) a play about how current economic changes have affected the lives of Filipino-Canadians
• Walang Sugat/Undefeated (1996, 1998) a sarswela (musical production) set in late 1896 when Filipinos took arms against Spanish rule
• Images of 1896 (1997) a sarswela about the resistance to Spanish colonial rule
• Miss Orient(ed) (2001) workshop production 
• Miss Orient(ed) (2003) CBT’s latest play which examines the politics of cultural identity through the eyes of three young beauty pageant contestants
• The Romance of Magno Rubio (2005) a multidisciplinary piece about a young Filipino farm laborer’s experience with racism in Depression-era California
• PEOPLE POWER (2006) SummerWorks Festival workshop production about the 1986 Philippine People Power Revolution.

The Carlos Bulosan Theatre began as a community theatre group and has since evolved into a community-based professional theatre company. Miss Orient(ed) marked CBT’s first professional production, and has the distinction of being Canada’s first professional Filipino-Canadian theatrical production as well.

In December of 2004, CBT forged a partnership with the Kapisanan Philippine Centre and The Digital Sweatshop (a Filipino-Canadian run film and tv production company) in order to establish a Filipino arts and cultural centre aimed at Filipino youth. Less than one year later, this goal was realized with the opening of the Kapisanan Philippine Center for Arts & Culture (KPC) in November of 2005.

The Carlos Bulosan Theatre is unique in its mission to develop Filipino-Canadian theatre and encourage Filipino-Canadian artists. CBT has a long history of telling stories not often seen on Canadian stages, as well as creating work outside of mainstream theatre practices.