ABOUT CHALK REP

Now in our 15th year, Chalk Rep has become a leader in site-specific theatre in Los Angeles, partnering with sites as grand as the Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County and UCLA’s William Andrews Clark Memorial Library, and as rustic as the garage of a private home. In 2010 we kicked off our biennial FLASH Festival where playwrights, actors, and directors come together to create new short plays for a specific space. Through subsequent FLASH Festivals, at The Page Museum at the La Brea Tar Pits, a new downtown high-rise at 8th + Hope, and at St. John’s Episcopal Cathedral, this model has solidified into Chalk’s key program for meeting and working with new actors, directors and playwrights, and planting the seeds for new work.  In 2014 we also kicked off a monthly Writers Group to deepen our investment in Los Angeles playwrights. Scripts developed in the writers group often receive cold readings and developmental workshops by our company. And in 2017 we began hosting a quarterly salon event called “Open Circle,” a program that brings together artists and art-lovers for community and conversation.

A company of artists, led by a rotating duo of Co-Artistic Producing Directors, Chalk remains true to our original mission working with a diverse group of artists to create works that are intimate, accessible, and an event to attend.

Space Partnerships

A cornerstone of Chalk Repertory Theatre's success is collaborating with dynamic and community driven space partners. Past partnerships include:

• Natural History Museum Los Angeles County 

• Hollywood Forever Cemetery 

• UCLA's William Andrew's Clark Memorial Library 

• Page Museum La Brea Tar Pits 

• 8th+Hope DTLA 

• Center for the Arts Eagle Rock 

• Mount Hollywood Congregational Church

• Cafe Metropol 

• Saint John's Episcopal Cathedral 

• Private Homes Owned by Daring Patrons of the Arts 

• Columbia Memorial Science Center