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The Alley founded over 60 years ago as Houston’s theatre company.
It exists to provide audiences with the highest quality theatre, offering a wide variety of work including new plays, classics, the re-discovered and the rarely-performed, and new musical theatre, with an emphasis on new American works – to provide the inspirational and the provocative – to make audiences think, feel, dream, and be entertained.
The Alley Theatre is one of the few American Theatre companies that support a company of actors, designers, artisans and craftspeople throughout the year. Their productions are built and rehearsed in the Alley Theatre Center for Theatre Production – a 75,000-square-foot facility adjacent to the theatre. It is state-of-the-art and one of the most complete and largest facilities of its kind anywhere. It has earned a national and international reputation for artistic achievement, including the Tony Award. The Alley Theatre company was founded in 1947 by Nina Eloise Whittington Vance (1914-1980). And under the leadership of Vance, the Alley Theatre grew from its modest beginnings, of 85-seat theatre that had to be converted and struck for every performance, to one of the most prestigious nonprofit resident theatres in the United States. The world premiere of Paul Zindel's The Effect of Gamma Rays on Man-in-the-Moon Marigolds was staged at the Alley in 1964. In 1996, the Alley Theatre won the Regional Theatre Tony Award. The Alley sponsors what is known as the Houston Young Playwrights Exchange (HYPE), which offers a skills-enhancing experience for people under the age of twenty who want to write for the stage. Every year, several pieces are chosen from the greater Houston area to be produced.
THE STAFF
Gregory Boyd, Artistic Director
James Black, Associate Director
Kevin Rigdon, Associate Director/Design
Jacey Little, Associate Literary Manager & Dramaturg
Dean R. Gladden, Managing Director
Ten Eyck Swackhamer, General Manager
Christa Bean, Associate General Manager
Clemencia Hernandez, Executive Assistant
Jann Whaley, Company Manager
ALLEY ACTING COMPANY
Jeffrey Bean, James Belcher, James black, Elizabeth Bunch, Paul hope, Charles Krohn, Emily Neves, Melissa Pritchett, David Rainey, Jay Sullivan, Todd white.
Alley Theatre
615 Texas Avenue
Houston, TX 77002
USA
http://www.alleytheatre.org/Alley/Default.asp
Here are few videos reflect some of their work.