Teesri Duniya Theatre was established in 1981 by Rana Bose, the current artistic director Rahul Varma, and the cast and crew of the Company's launch production, Julus by Badal Sircar in Hindi. Today Teesri Duniya is one of a handful of culturally all-encompassing companies producing plays about diverse communities, cultures, and identities that make up today's world. Teesri Duniya Theatre is pivotal in building cross-cultural bridges between Quebecers of Asian, African, Middle Eastern, Latinx, mixed-race, First Nations, and European origin.

Till the 70s, in Quebec, there wasn't a non-white company except for the Black Theatre Workshop. The notion of political theatre, mention of Indigenous people, and cultural plurality was confined to obscurity in the theatre world. With the institutionalization of multiculturalism in the 1970s and Québec's Quiet Revolution of the 1960s, Teesri Duniya Theatre emerged as one of the few multicultural companies with a decidedly political mandate.

Discriminatory policies at the arts-funding bodies prevented Teesri Duniya Theatre from receiving arts funding until the the mid-nineties. This situation changed with multiculturalism's institutionalization and implementation of racial equality in the arts. Today, all public arts-funding bodies support Teesri Duniya Theatre.

Since its inception, Teesri Duniya Theatre has produced over 75 plays and dance theatres in English, some in French, including Hindi, Urdu, Punjabi, English and Tamil. Most of our plays are premiers directed mainly by women. We present local plays with global significance in a manner that gives each play a distinctly Canadian voice.