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MCC Theater founded in 1986 as Manhattan Class Company, then a collective of young actors, writers and directors eager to take a leadership role in their 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 theatre companies.
MCC Theater believes in the artist as the primary force in creating memorable theatre. They believe each experience in the theatre should be an event where artists in playwriting, acting, direction and design combine to induce an emotional reaction in the audience, getting them personally involved in the production at hand.
Some of their most significant successes were rejected by nearly every other theatre in Manhattan: Tim Blake Nelson's The Grey Zone, Margaret Edson's Wit, Marsha Norman's Trudy Blue, Neil LaBute's The Mercy Seat. These are tough, engrossing plays that investigate the issues and morality of our times.
Over the years, this dedication to the new work of new and emerging artists has earned MCC Theater a variety of awards, culminating in a Pulitzer Prize for production of Wit in 1999. This play, Ms Edson's first, was transferred to a larger theatre for a long commercial run and was made into an Emmy-winning HBO film.
In 2004, MCC presented the Lucille Lortel, Outer Critics Circle, Drama League nominated and Tony Award® winning Frozen, featuring Swoosie Kurtz, Brian F. O’Byrne and Laila Robins. MCC's critically acclaimed production of reasons to be pretty, by playwright-in-residence Neil LaBute, transferred to Broadway in 2009 and was nominated for three Tony Awards, including Best Play. In 2011, MCC Theater received the inaugural Laurents/Hatcher award for Jeff Talbott's The Submission.
MCC Theater
311 West 43rd St, Suite 302
New York, NY 10036
Phone: (212) 727-7722 -
Fax: (212) 727-7780
mcc@mcctheater.org
http://www.mcctheater.org/index.htm
Here are few videos reflect some of their work.