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MCC Theater (Manhattan Class Company) is an off-Broadway theater company located in New York City. The theater was founded in 1986 by artistic directors Robert LuPone, Bernard Telsey and William Cantler. Blake West joined the company in 2006 as executive director. MCC opened its current location in Manhattan's Hell's Kitchen neighborhood, as The Robert W. Wilson MCC Theater Space, on January 9, 2019.




Mission


MCC is one of New York's nonprofit off-Broadway companies, driven by a mission to provoke conversations that have never happened and otherwise never would. Founded in 1986 as a collective of artists leading peer-based classes to support their own development as actors, writers, and directors, the tenets of collaboration, education, and community are at the core of MCC Theater's programming. One of the only theaters in the country led continuously by its founders, Artistic Directors Robert LuPone, Bernard Telsey, and William Cantler, MCC fulfills its mission through the production of world, American, and New York premiere plays and musicals that challenge artists and audiences to confront contemporary personal and social issues, and robust playwright development and education initiatives that foster the next generation of theater artists and students alike.
MCC Theater's celebrated productions include:

Jocelyn Bioh's School Girls; Or, the African Mean Girls Play
Penelope Skinner's The Village Bike
Robert Askins' Hand to God (Broadway transfer; five 2015 Tony Award nominations including Best Play)
John Pollono's Small Engine Repair
Paul Downs Colaizzo's Really Really
Sharr White's The Other Place (Broadway transfer)
Jeff Talbott's The Submission (Laurents/Hatcher Award)
Neil LaBute's Reasons to Be Happy, Reasons to Be Pretty (Broadway transfer, three 2009 Tony Award nominations, including Best Play), Some Girl(s), Fat Pig, The Mercy Seat, and All The Ways To Say I Love You
Michael Weller's Fifty Words
Alexi Kaye Campbell's The Pride
Bryony Lavery's Frozen (Broadway transfer; four 2004 Tony Award nominations including Best Play, Tony Award for Best Featured Actor)
Tim Blake Nelson's The Grey Zone
Rebecca Gilman's The Glory of Living (2002 Pulitzer Prize finalist)
Margaret Edson's Wit (1999 Pulitzer Prize) and the musicals Coraline, Carrie, and Ride the Cyclone.
Many plays developed and produced by MCC have gone on to productions throughout the country and around the world.




Key players


Robert LuPone – Artistic Director
Bernard Telsey – Artistic Director
William Cantler – Artistic Director
Blake West – Executive Director




Artists


MCC has engaged a collection of notable directors and artists that have included:




Mainstage Productions


2022–2024

Only Gold by Kate Nash, Andy Blankenbuehler and Ted Malawer
Wolf Play by Hansol Jung
Bees and Honey by Guadalís Del Carmen
Wet Brain by John J. Caswell, Jr.
2021–2022

Nollywood Dreams by Jocelyn Bioh
Space Dogs (musical) by Nick Blaemire and Van Hughes (actor/writer)
Which Way to the Stage by Ana Nogueira
Uncensored
Soft by Donja R. Love
2019–2020

The Wrong Man by Ross Golan
Seared by Theresa Rebeck
All the Natalie Portmans by C.A. Johnson
Nollywood Dreams by Jocelyn Bioh
Perry Street by Lucy Thurber
2018–2019

The Light by Loy A. Webb
Alice by Heart by Duncan Sheik, Steven Sater and Jesse Nelson
BLKS by Aziza Barnes
Moscow Moscow Moscow Moscow Moscow Moscow by Halley Feiffer
2017–2018

Charm by Philip Dawkins
School Girls; Or, The African Mean Girls Play by Jocelyn Bioh
Relevance by JC Lee
Transfers by Lucy Thurber
Collective Rage by Jen Silverman
2016–2017

All The Ways to Say I Love You by Neil LaBute
Ride The Cyclone by Brooke Maxwell and Jacob Richmond
YEN by Anna Jordan
The End of Longing by Matthew Perry
2015–2016

The Legend of Georgia McBride by Matthew Lopez
Lost Girls by John Pollono
Smokefall by Noah Haidle
A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Gynecological Oncology Unit at Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center of New York by Halley Feiffer
2014–2015

The Money Shot by Neil LaBute
Punk Rock by Simon Stephens
The Nether by Jennifer Haley
Permission by Robert Askins
2013–2014

Small Engine Repair by John Pollono
Hand to God by Robert Askins
The Village Bike by Penelope Skinner
2012–2013

Don't Go Gentle by Stephen Belber
Really Really by Paul Downs Colaizzo
Reasons to Be Happy by Neil LaBute
2011–2012

The Submission by Jeff Talbott
Wild Animals You Should Know by Thomas Higgins
Carrie by Lawrence D. Cohen
2010–2011

The Break of Noon book by Neil LaBute
The Other Place by Sharr White
Side Effects by Michael Weller
2009–2010

Family Week book by Beth Henley
The Pride by Alexi Kaye Campbell
Still Life by Alexander Dinelaris
2008–2009

Coraline book by David Greenspan, music and lyrics by Stephin Merritt
Fifty Words by Michael Weller
The Third Story by Charles Busch
2007–2008

Spain by Jim Knable
Grace by Mick Gordon and A. C. Grayling
reasons to be pretty by Neil LaBute
2006–2007

In A Dark Dark House by Neil LaBute
A Very Common Procedure by Courtney Baron
Nixon's Nixon by Russell Lees
2005–2006

Some Girl(s) by Neil LaBute
The Wooden Breeks by Glen Berger
Colder than Here by Laura Wade
2004–2005

Last Easter by Bryony Lavery
Fat Pig by Neil LaBute
What of the Night based on the writings of Djuna Barnes
2003–2004

Bright Ideas by Eric Coble
Frozen by Bryony Lavery
The Distance from Here by Neil LaBute
2002–2003

Mercy Seat by Neil LaBute
Scattergood by Anto Howard
Intrigue with Faye by Kate Robin
2001–2002

The Glory of Living by Rebecca Gilman
Runt of the Litter by Bo Eason
A Letter from Ethel Kennedy by Christopher Gorman
2000–2001

A Place at the Table by Simon Block
High Dive by Leslie Ayvazian
The Dead Eye Boy by Angus MacLachlan
1999–2000

Trudy Blue by Marsha Norman
Sueño by Jose Rivera
Yard Gal by Rebecca Prichard
1998–1999

Wit by Margaret Edson
The English Teachers by Ed Napier
Angelique by Lorena Gale
1997–1998

Anadarko by Tim Blake Nelson
1996–1997

The Gravity of Means by John Kolvenbach
Good as New by Peter Hedges
1995–1996

Nixon's Nixon by Russell Lees
The Grey Zone by Tim Blake Nelson
Three in the Back, Two in the Head by Jason Sherman
1994–1995

Girl Gone by Jacquelyn Reingold
1993–1994

The Able Bodied Seaman by Alan Bowne
Liar, Liar by Dael Orlandersmith
1992–1993

Five Women Wearing the Same Dress by Alan Ball
D Train by James Bosley and Fay Simpson
1991–1992

A Snake in the Vein by Alan Bowne
1987–1988

Beirut by Alan Bowne




Awards and nominations






References






External links


Official website

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• Molly Gordon
• Jon Bernthal
• Chris Perfetti
• Tavi Gevinson
• Alison Pill
• Andrea Riseborough
• Mike Faist
• Anthony Ramos
• Sonderkommando
• Matthew Sussman
• MCC Theater
• Shit. Meet. Fan.
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