Slow Burn Theatre

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Slow Burn Theatre Company is a non-profit professional theatre in Fort Lauderdale, Florida. It was founded in 2009 by Patrick Fitzwater and Matthew Korinko to stage intelligent, lesser-known contemporary musicals. The first season featured Bat Boy: The Musical and Assassins and was funded by working in a beauty salon and donations.

For six seasons the company performed at West Boca Raton Community High School before moving to the Amaturo Theater at the Broward Center for the Performing Arts as its resident company. Until 2014 it hired only local talent; later it began inviting Actors’ Equity Association artists to perform in main-stage productions. Over more than ten seasons, Slow Burn has produced nearly thirty shows, including regional premieres of Carrie, Freaky Friday, Heathers: The Musical, Hunchback of Notre Dame, and Big Fish. The company has won Carbonell awards for musicals, direction, performance, and design, and has earned favorable reviews from outlets such as Broadway World, The Palm Beach Post, Sun-Sentinel, Florida Theatre On Stage, and the Miami Herald. The artistic director is Patrick Fitzwater, and the website is slowburntheatre.org.