was founded by artists Robert Rosen and Shawn McConneloug in 2007.
In its three years in action, 206 has been a creative resource
for over twenty-five local artists and art groups including:

Live Action Set, Jon Ferguson Theater, Open Eye Figure Theatre for Split Britches and for Sarah Agnew and Jim Lichtscheidl, Perpetual Motion, 3AM Productions, Augsburg Theater Department, Mark Abel Garcia, Alan Berks, Bedlam Theatre for Barbra Berlovitz, Robert Rosen, Shawn McConneloug/Orchestra, Karen Sherman, Morgan Thorson Dance, Emily Johnson/Catalyst, Super Group, Jane Shockley, Paula Mann Timetrack Productions, Dustin Haug and Tamin Todzke, Chris Schlicting, Wicked Sister Dance Theatre, and Composer Manjunan Gnanaratnam/Open Source Dance.

Examples of works that have utilized the resources at 206 and gone on for production at other spaces include: My Father’s Bookshelf (Live Action Set/ Guthrie Dowling Studio), Stories As Told In A Bed (Barbra Berlovitz/Bedlam Theater)
Super Monkey (Jon Ferguson/Guthrie Dowling Studio), My Favorite Kind of Pretty
and S. Gunter Klaus and the Story Before (Jon Ferguson/Southern Theater),
Force/Matter (Orchestra*/Tampa Bay Performing Arts Center),
Terrible Things (Emily Johnson/Catalyst/Performance Space 122/NY),
and Deviants (Robert Rosen/Live Action Set/Fringe Festival/Soap Factory). 

206 has initiated workshops and residencies in highly physical, cross-disciplinary approaches to performance (Train at 206 and Crosstrain). It has become the home base for an innovative artistic consortium called the Gymnasium. 
As a member of the Ivy Building for the Arts, 206 is actively involved in the Seward neighborhood and business association and has participated in the annual Art Crawl for the last three years, hosting over 400 visitors. In the fall of 2009, 206 collaborated with Interact Center for the Visual and Performing Arts, the University of Minnesota Department of Theatre Arts and Dance and Augsburg College Department of Theatre Arts co-hosting a residency by Fay Lecoq,
Director of l’Ecole Internationale de Theatre Jacques Lecoq in Paris.