Manhattan Class Company

MCC Theater is an Off-Broadway theater company located in New York City, founded in 1986 by artistic directors Robert LuPone and Bernard Telsey. Guided by the artistic vision of LuPone, Telsey, and associate artistic director William Cantler, MCC Theater brings together exceptional theater artists to produce works that force audiences to reexamine the world through the unique perspectives of extraordinary writers. MCC Theater was founded in 1986 as Manhattan Class Company, then a collective of young actors, writers, and directors eager to take a leadership role in their own 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 theater companies. MCC Theater carries out its mission through an annual three-play mainstage season, its literary development programs, including the unique Playwrights' Coalition, and education and outreach initiatives that include the MCC Theater Youth Company, a free program for high school students, and several in-school partnerships. Past productions include Neil LaBute's REASONS TO BE PRETTY (Broadway 2009), IN A DARK, DARK HOUSE, SOME GIRL(S), and FAT PIG, as well as FROZEN (which moved to Broadway in 2004) and WIT (winner of the Pulitzer Prize in 1999).