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Mcc theater youth company s 15th anniversary
MCC Theater is an Off-Broadway theater company located in New York City, founded in 1986 by artistic directors Robert LuPone and Bernard Telsey along with six graduates of the New York University drama department, including Jana Herzen, now president of Harlem-based Motema Music.
Contents
- Mcc theater youth company s 15th anniversary
- Get to know the mcc theater youth company
- Mission
- Key Players
- Artists
- Mainstage Productions
- References
Get to know the mcc theater youth company
Mission
MCC Theater was founded in 1986 as Manhattan Class Company, then a collective of young actors, writers and directors eager to take a leadership role in their own artistic development. Initial peer-based “classes” led to showcases and eventually to the kinds of full-scale productions that have made MCC Theater one of New York’s leading off-Broadway theater companies.
MCC Theater carries out its mission through a four-play mainstage season, its literary development programs, and education and outreach initiatives that include the MCC Theater Youth Company, a free program for high school students, and several in-school partnerships.
Past productions include Neil LaBute's reasons to be pretty (moved to Broadway in 2009), In A Dark Dark House, Some Girl(s) and Fat Pig; Robert Askins's Hand to God; Frozen (which moved to Broadway in 2004); and Wit (winner of the Pulitzer Prize in 1999).
MCC Theater plans to move into a larger 25,000-square-foot (2,300 m2) theater space designed by architect Andrew Berman at 52nd Street and 10th Avenue in 2017.
Key Players
Artists
MCC has engaged a collection of notable directors and artists that have included: Lynn Redgrave, Michael Greif, Jo Bonney, Doug Hughes, Philip Seymour Hoffman, Julianna Margulies, Liev Schreiber, Jim Simpson, Benjamin Bratt, Swoosie Kurtz, Kathleen Chalfant, Allison Janney, Anna Paquin, Judith Light, Marisa Tomei, Lili Taylor, Sigourney Weaver, Jeremy Piven, Keri Russell, Calista Flockhart, Bridget Fonda, Eric McCormack, Fran Drescher, Peter Hedges, Jane Alexander, Ron Livingston, Ben Shenkman, Maura Tierney, Kyra Sedgwick, Joanna Gleason, Lisa Gay Hamilton, Gil Bellows, Polly Draper, Thomas Gibson, Michael C. Hall, Lisa Harrow,Derek Anson Jones, John Spencer, Kathleen Turner, Charles Busch, Stephin Merritt, David Greenspan, Piper Perabo, Frederick Weller, Sarah Paulson, Dominic Chianese, Hugh Dancy, Ben Whishaw, and Charles Busch.
Mainstage Productions
2014–2015
2013–2014
2012–2013
2011–2012
2010–2011
2009–2010
2008–2009
2007–2008
2006–2007
2005–2006
2004–2005
2003–2004
2002–2003
2001–2002
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1999–2000
1998–1999
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1996–1997
1995–1996
1994–1995
1993–1994
1992–1993
1991–1992
1987–1988