Orange Theatre Group's work is created through a process of collaboration. We are deeply and passionately committed to collaboration both as a way of making art and as a means of understanding and transforming the world. We see performance as one of the few remaining institutions with real democratic, humanitarian potential. Our work is about manifesting and nurturing that potential between ourselves and in our audiences.

We tell stories of contemporary life. While our repertoire is large and contains everything from the classics to completely new works, each project we undertake is an attempt to say something about the time and place we live in. This has led us to an exploration of new techniques and forms, utilizing emerging technologies in order to address with the ever changing face of American culture. We reach across disciplinary boundaries, both inside and outside the performing arts. Our works are collages of theatre, film, dance, music, fiction, poetry, sound art, live art, architecture, and sculpture.

Most of our pieces are developed over the course of one year in a sequence of workshops. We often work from a literary source, either a traditional play or a non-dramatic work; however, we do not adapt our sources. We treat them as provocations for entirely new works of art.

We work in non-traditional spaces. We have performed in galleries, a warehouse, a vacant home, and a subbasement beneath a theatre. Currently we are housed in Bragg's Pie Factory, a 5000 ft. warehouse space that also houses an art gallery.

We are committed to the continuing development of an American performance tradition outside the mainstream. We support this mission through our performance work, through training together, and through teaching. We have just started a free, weekly adult performance workshop.