Mission

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  2. Mission

Chance Theater is dedicated to the creation of exciting theatrical experiences, taking artistic risks, and collaborating with gifted and diverse artists on passionate and provocative plays and musicals.

Our mission is to contribute to a more connected, compassionate, and creative community.

We accomplish this by:

  • producing powerful, socially-conscious, provocative, intimate theater experiences
  • generating participation and dialogue between our diverse communities
  • nurturing and supporting local artists
  • inspiring and empowering creative young minds
  • promoting anti-racist and anti-oppression practices to ensure equity, diversity, and inclusion

Proud to be one of the leading ensemble-driven theatre companies in Southern California, CHANCE THEATER has received the National Theatre Company grant from American Theatre Wing for “nurturing a community of artists in ways that strengthen and demonstrate the quality, diversity, and dynamism of American theatre.” The Chance recently won 14 OCTG Theatre Awards, including Outstanding Production of a Musical (Next to Normal) and Outstanding Production of a Play (Cry It Out). Previously, Chance Theater has won eight OCTG Theatre Awards, including Outstand Production of a Musical (Fun Home), eight Ovation Awards, including four for Best Production of a Musical (Intimate Theatre), and four LADCC Awards, including the Polly Warfield Award for Outstanding Season. The Anaheim City Council named Chance Theater “the Official Resident Theater Company of Anaheim” in 2014, and Arts Orange County has twice named the Chance as “Outstanding Arts Organization.” Known for using bold and personal storytelling to promote dialogue and connection within the Southern California theatrical landscape, the Chance is committed to contributing to a more compassionate, connected and creative community. As a constituent member of Theatre Communications Group, The Theatrical Producers League of Los Angeles, and OC Theatre Guild, Chance Theater continues to bring national attention to the Southern California and Orange County theater scenes.

 

“But as audiences and other performance arts groups know, the storefront-size company has a reputation for quality that makes it a big player in the local theater scene.”  (Los Angeles Times)

“One of Orange County’s great local theaters” (Orange County Register)

“A major force on the Southern California theatrical landscape” (OC Weekly)

“Chance Theater is the best and most enterprising small theatre in Orange County…the Chance produces new, challenging, and rarely seen works with astounding professionalism.”  (Stage and Cinema)