The California Theatre Center is a company with three major programs: a resident company that performs primarily for students and families from October to May; a resident company that performs primarily for adults in the summer; and touring companies that perform regionally, nationally and internationally. The performing artist is the focal point of CTC. Since our society fails to recognize the value of performers, it is essential that their worth be fully appreciated in our theatre. We attempt to provide the performing artist with the best possible environment so that he or she can be as creative as possible. At CTC we believe it is important for us to think of excellence as a process rather than a product. Our company strives toward the goal of outstanding theatre. As we grow and mature our concern is with the future, not the past. What we are attempting in the present is always far more exciting than our past successes. We are passionately driven by our search for excellence.
--- Gayle Cornelison General Director & Founder
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Informational Summary/History
Status
- CTC, a not-for-profit professional theatre founded in 1976, begins its 35th full season in September 2010
- CTC has a current budget of 1.7 million; 90% is earned and 10% is from grants and contributions.
- CTC has a full-time operating staff of 22 to 30, comprised of performers, technical staff, and administrative staff.
Programs
- The CTC Season runs from September until July and presents 15-20 plays; more than 500 performances to an audience of more than 80,000 yearly in California's Santa Clara Valley and an additional 130,000 on tour.
- Six to eight plays each season are available for local, national, and international tours.
- CTC's Young Audience Series, running from September through May, includes school morning performances for grades K and up, and evening and weekend performances for families.
- CTC has year-round education programs and workshops for hundreds of school children each year. The CTC Summer Theatre Conservatory trains over 400 young people, ages six to eighteen, in theatre skills each summer at up to ten different sites in the Santa Clara Valley.
- CTC Summer Rep, running during June and July, presents three or four plays in repertory - three plays for adult audiences and usually one play for family audiences.
- In its history, CTC has presented over 17,000 performances of over 500 productions to an audience of more than 5.2 million.
Honors
- Recognized by the American Theatre Association in 1979 and 1984 as the top professional theatre for young audiences in the United States.
- Twice opened the season at the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts.
- Sponsored by the Canada Council for a month-long tour of Canada.
- Selected for a 52-day tour of Europe sponsored by the United States Government.
- Received the Sunnyvale Chamber of Commerce Award for International Leadership in the Performing Arts 1992.
- Received the City of Sunnyvale Award for Outstanding Contribution to the Arts for Dr. Gayle Cornelison, General Director 2004.
- Voted "Best of the Best" Family Theatre by Bay Area Parent Magazine in 2003 and 2006.
- CTC Summer Rep 2007 production of The Woman in Black was voted Standout Dramatic Production and Standout Lights and Sound by Artsopolis.com and Wave Magazine.
International
- CTC was selected for a partnership with the Apple Tree Library Foundation for tours to both perform and teach in China to promote English language libraries, starting in 2007 with Miss Nelson is Missing!
- CTC has had exchange programs with theatres in Sweden, Russia, Norway, Italy, Canada, and New Zealand.
- CTC members have participated in theatre festivals, seminars, and performances in Australia, Canada, China, the Cook Islands, Czechoslovakia, England, Fiji, France, Germany, Italy, Japan, Kenya, New Zealand, Peru, Russia, Scotland, Spain, Sweden, Yugoslavia and Wales.
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