Forum Theater Company was unofficially founded at a Starbucks in September of 2008, by a group of friends committed to creating a new type of theater in the DFW area. Their goal was to create a theater company that would focus its energy on new and socially relevant works that challenge a younger audience to investigate their own ideas on social, political, and religious topics while still providing entertainment for the masses.

The name is two fold; the first is the definition of Forum, an assembly for the discussion of questions of public interest. The second influence deals with the show ‘A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum', since it was a production of this musical is what introduced the friends to each other.