The Digital Performance Institute (DPI) was founded in 2001 by the Gertrude Stein Repertory Theatre (GSRT) as an extension of their programs and services to the field. DPI has continued to grow, expanding to include an artist residency program providing technical services and rehearsal space for long-term production development processes, and an active web presence designed to encourage discussion, documentation, and archiving of the theater community's ongoing experiments in integrating digital technology into live performance. In addition, DPI provides equipment and consulting support for a wide range of theater groups and performing artists.

GSRT was founded in 1990 by Cheryl Faver, an MFA graduate from the Yale School of Drama, then John Reaves and Liz Dreyer, also Yale graduates, joined the theater in 1991 when GSRT began to experiment with digital technology in theater performance, training and production planning as a strategy to encourage artists and arts organizations to invent new forms and processes. Their work on the integration of theater and technology attracted some of the world's leading technology labs, including Bell Labs, NTT Labs, and IBM's Hursley Labs in the UK.
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DPI is a project of The Gertrude Stein Repertory Theatre, known for its use of cutting edge technologies to promote formal innovation in the theatre.

Operating with the fiscal sponsorship of the Gertrude Stein Repertory Theater (GSRT), DPI’s resources for artists include equipment access
and Learning World’s team of technology field professionals.
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The Digital Performance Institute (DPI) is a laboratory assisting artists in developing new dialogues between technology and performance. DPI’s programs are specifically designed to facilitate artist-driven investigation of technology’s role in multi-disciplinary performance works offering access to space, equipment and expert advice. The purpose is to encourage technology experimentation throughout a production’s entire development process.