The Acting Company

The Acting Company's mission is to develop emerging actors by touring theater coast-to-coast.

Our vision is to connect the past to the present as we re-imagine the future.

• We center next generation global majority artists because their perspectives and creativity are essential to the continued evolution of our form.
• We aspire to engage community spirit among neighbors in our diverse rural, suburban, and urban audiences.
• We commission new adaptations to tour in direct conversation with great works of the past as an invitation to today’s playwrights to interrogate timeless themes from their contemporary vantage point.

Founded over 50 years ago by legendary performer-producers John Houseman and Margot Harley with the first graduating class of the Drama Division of The Juilliard School, The Acting Company has helped more than 400 actors hone their craft. Celebrated performers including Kevin Kline, Rainn Wilson, Jesse L. Martin, Harriet Harris, Roslyn Ruff, and Kelley Curran, among many others, consider the Company their professional launchpad. We received a Tony honor for Excellence in the Theater in 2003 and we have produced over 150 plays in 48 states for over 4 million people.