Santa Cruz Actors' Theatre

Mission

Serving Santa Cruz County since 1985, Actors' Theatre supports, champions, and provides a venue for the performing arts, with emphasis on the theatrical arts. To this end, Actors' Theatre: 

• Provides resources for theater artists to explore their creativities and develop their crafts.
• Presents new and established works by local, national, and international authors.
• Cultivates and maintains audiences for the theatrical arts.
• Collaborates and partners with other groups to create a stronger presence for theater.
• Offers a subscription season, some self-produced and others co-produced with local producers, hiring local actors and other theater artists.
• Holds playwriting contests for aspiring playwrights of ages K-12 and adults, in short short (5-minute) format, 10 minute format, and full-length plays, and bring the winners' plays to life on the stage.
• Offers low-cost workshops in theater crafts, such as directing and auditioning skills.
• Make our theater available to educational theater projects of the Empire Academy, the Georgiana Bruce Kirby School, Spring Hill School, and Gateway School.
• Rents out our theater at cost to independent theater companies, one-person shows, and improvisational theater groups who need affordable appropriate space in which to practice and perform their art.
• Hosts the summer Improvfest, showcasing many local improvisational theater troupes as well as out-of-town groups, entertaining Santa Cruz's many summer visitors.
• Are in the process of developing an apprenticeship program in conjunction with Cabrillo Community College. 

Actors’ Theatre programs are sponsored in part by grants from The Cultural Council of Santa Cruz County, the Monterey Peninsula Foundation, and a number of other generous sponsors.