The Frank Theatre Company (Screaming Weenie Productions Society) is Western Canada's award-winning professional Queer theatre company. We are incorporated as a non-profit society in British Columbia. (Registration S-44774). We are committed to the development of sexual and/or gender queer artists, and are actively inclusive of all gender identities, sexualities and ethnicities. Our Mission Screaming Weenie's mission is to produce and promote queer and sex positive performance, facilitating a stronger Queer community by creating and encouraging the performing arts and artists. We strive to create greater positive public awareness and acceptance, through the performing arts, of individuals and groups outside of sexual and gender norms. Queer Defined We define Queer as "outside the perceived norm of sexual and gender roles, including (but not limited to) those individuals who self identify as BGILPPTT32QQ - bisexual, gay, intersexed, lesbian, pansexual, polyamorous, transgendered, transexual, third-sex, two-spirited, queer or questioning." Queer Performance Defined the writing and production of stories that are: strange, curious, peculiar, innovative, unexpected, eccentric, odd, passionate, unconventional, dynamic, homosexual, inspiring, transgendered, amusing and/or comical. Past Artistic Directors include Ilena Lee Cramer, Seán Cummings, and Chris Gatchalian.