Achievements

2008

#2 Live-Theater Group - OC Register's The Best of Orange County 2008

"Best Small Theater" - Orange Coast Magazine, Best of OC Issue

"Best O.C. Theater Group" - MyFoxLA

Back Stage West Critic's Pick
Talk About The Passion
Rabbit Hole

Grants

Allergan Foundation
Jane Deming and Robert & Doreen Marshall Fund
Disneyland Cast Community Fund
James Irvine Foundation CAA Initiative
Kiwanis Club of Greater Anaheim
The Lear Family Foundation
Target Corporation

Premieres

World Premiere
The Giant and The Pixie, by Jonathan Josephson

California Premiere
Talk About The Passion, by Graham Farrow

Orange County Premieres
     The Brain From Planet X, by David Wechter & Bruce Kimmel
     Rabbit Hole, by David Lindsay-Abaire
     Jacob Marley's Christmas Carol, by Tom Mula

2007

Awards and Honors

Los Angeles Drama Critics Circle (LADCC) Polly Warfield Award

#2 Live-Theater Group - OC Register's The Best of Orange County 2007

Arts Orange County Annual Achievement Honoree
Outstanding Individual Artist (Oanh Nguyen)

Arts Orange County Nomination
Outstanding Volunteer (John R. Karczynski)

Back Stage West Garland Award (Honorable Mention)
PRODUCTION:
Frozen, The Chance Theater

DIRECTION:
Oanh Nguyen, Frozen, The Chance Theater

MUSIC DIRECTION:
Bill Strongin, Sunday in the Park with George, The Chance Theater

SOUND DESIGN:
Casey Long, Frozen, The Chance Theater

     PERFORMANCE IN A (PRIMARILY) STRAIGHT PLAY:
     Michael Irish, Biloxi Blues, The Chance Theater
     Jonathon Lamer, Frozen, The Chance Theater
     Jennifer Ruckman, Frozen, The Chance Theater
     Karen Webster, Frozen, The Chance Theater

ENSEMBLE PERFORMANCE:
Sunday in the Park with George, The Chance Theater

Grants

Allergan Foundation
Anaheim Arts Council
Anaheim Rotary
Arts Orange County
Disneyland Cast Community Fund
Kiwanis Club of Greater Anaheim
Target
Wells Fargo Foundation

Premieres

World Premieres
     Best Chance, Chance Best, by John Bolen
     Minglers, by Max Espinoza
     Bitches and Cocks, by Jonathan Josephson
     The Best Lie, by John MacDonald
     Alpha Best, by Sarah Moreau
     Baseball to a Russian, by Peter Schnake

Orange County Premieres
     Inventing Van Gogh, by Steven Dietz
     Shakespeare's R & J, adapted by Joe Calarco
     Anne of Green Gables - The Musical, by Robinette and Swensson

2006

Awards and Honors

GLAAD Media Award Nominee, Outstanding LA Theater - Porcelain

Arts Orange County Nominations
Outstanding Arts Organization
Outstanding Individual Artist (Oanh Nguyen)

Back Stage West Garland Award (Honorable Mention)
PRODUCTION:
The Lying Kind, The Chance Theater

     PLAYWRITING:
     Anthony Neilson, The Lying Kind, The Chance Theater
     Annie Thoms, with their eyes: September 11th - The View from a High School at      Ground Zero, The Chance Theater

SOUND DESIGN:
Casey Long, The Lying Kind, The Chance Theater

     PERFORMANCE IN A (PRIMARILY) STRAIGHT PLAY:
     Courtney Hayes, Never In My Lifetime, The Chance Theater
     John M. Jurcheck, Never In My Lifetime, The Chance Theater

PERFORMANCE IN A (PRIMARILY) MUSICAL PRODUCTION:
Jocelyn A. Brown, The Last Five Years, The Chance Theater

     ENSEMBLE PERFORMANCE:
     Hot 'N' Throbbing, The Chance Theater
     Into The Woods, The Chance Theater
     with their eyes: September 11th - The View from a High School at Ground Zero,      The Chance Theater

MISCELLANEOUS:
Dialect Coaching, Glenda Morgan Brown, The Lying Kind and with their eyes: September 11th - The View from a High School at Ground Zero, The Chance Theater

LA Times Critic's Choice
with their eyes: September 11th - The View from a High School at Ground Zero

Back Stage West Critic's Pick
     Never in My Lifetime
     Into the Woods
     Coyote on a Fence

Grants

Anaheim Arts Council
Anaheim Community Foundation
Arts Orange County
Deluxe Corporation Foundation
Kiwanis Club of Greater Anaheim
Rotary Club of Anaheim
Washington Mutual

Premieres

World Premieres
Anaheim Home Companion, by Tira Palmquist and members of The Chance Theater Repertory Company
365 Days/365 Plays, by Suzan Lori-Parks

West Coast Premieres
with their eyes: September 11th - The View from a High School at Ground Zero, edited by Annie Thoms
The Lying Kind, by Anthony Neilson

Orange County Premieres
     Hot 'N' Throbbing, by Paula Vogel
     Never In My Lifetime, by Shirley Gee
     Coyote on a Fence, by Bruce Graham

2005

Awards and Honors

Arts Orange County Nominations
Outstanding Arts Organization
Outstanding Individual Artist (Oanh Nguyen)

Back Stage West Garland Award (Honorable Mention)
     OUTSTANDING PERFORMANCE IN A MUSICAL
     Erika C. Miller, Cabaret, The Chance Theater
     Beach Vickers, Cabaret, The Chance Theater

Best of 2005, OC Register
One Flea Spare (Production, Performance - Joshua Jones)
Porcelain (Production, Performances - Nghia Luu and Beach Vickers)
The Diary of Anne Frank (Ensemble)
The Laramie Project (Ensemble)

OC Weekly Award
The Eight: Reindeer Monologues (Best Ensemble)

8 OC Weekly Award Nominations
     Porcelain (Best Production, Best Direction - Oanh Nguyen, Best Actor - Nghia Luu)
     The Eight: Reindeer Monologues (Best Production)
     One Flea Spare (Best Production, Best Direction - Patricia L. Terry)
     The Rover (Best Direction - Josh Costello, Best Ensemble)

Winner of "Roar of the Crowd", Goldstar Events
Closer Than Ever
The Diary of Anne Frank

LA Times Critic's Choice
Closer Than Ever

Back Stage West Critic's Pick
     The Diary of Anne Frank
     Porcelain
     One Flea Spare
     Cabaret

Grants

Anaheim Arts Council
Arts Orange County
Disneyland Cast Community Fund
Target
Washington Mutual

Premieres

World Premiere Adaptations
The Rover, by Aphra Behn, adapted by Josh Costello
FIG: R.O.(retro opera), by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, adapted by Robert G. Leigh, Heather Howe, and The Chance Theater Repertory Company

Orange County Premieres
     Closer Than Ever, by Richard Maltby, Jr. and David Shire
     Porcelain, by Chay Yew
     One Flea Spare, by Naomi Wallace
     Big Love, by Charles L. Mee
     The World Goes Round, by John Kander and Fred Ebb

2004

Awards and Honors

Arts Orange County Annual Achievement Honoree
Outstanding Arts Organization

Arts Orange County Nomination
Outstanding Individual Artist (Jocelyn A. Brown)

Best of Orange County : Hidden Gem, Orange County Register

Honorary OC Weekly Award
Best Ensemble Oriented Theatre Troupe

OC Weekly Award
Goodnight Children Everywhere (Best Actress - Jocelyn A. Brown)

13 OC Weekly Award Nominations
     Goodnight Children Everywhere (Best Production, Best Ensemble, Best Direction - Oanh Nguyen, Best Actor - Brian C. Weed, Best Supporting Actor - Beach Vickers)
     The Cherry Orchard (Best Direction - Jocelyn A. Brown, Best Actress - Wendy Braun)
     The Lord of the Screen the Fellowship of the Pen (Best New Play)
     Company (Best Musical, Best Ensemble, Best Supporting Actress - Bonnie Wickeraad)
     Tape (Best Actor - Casey Long)
     The Eight: Reindeer Monologues (Best Ensemble)

Premieres

World Premiere
The Lord of the Screen: The Fellowship of the Pen - The Improv-ical, by Alex Bueno, Eric McGregor and Oanh Nguyen

Southern California Premiere
Goodnight Children Everywhere, by Richard Nelson

Orange County Premieres
Far Away, by Caryl Churchill
Tape, by Stephen Belber

2003

Awards and Honors

Honorary OC Weekly Award
Muchos Huevos, Lee Miller: The Angel and the Fiend

2 OC Weekly Awards
That Which Remains (Best Direction - Robert G. Leigh, Best Supporting Actor - Ken Rugg)

5 OC Weekly Award nominations
     The Mikado (Best Musical, Best Actor - Jonathan Talmadge)
     The Hanging of Mary Surratt (Best New Play)
     A Midsummer Night's Dream (Best Actress - Ruby Wendell)
     Lee Miller: The Angel and The Fiend (Best New Play)

Back Stage West Critic's Pick
The Mikado

Premieres

World Premiere
Lee Miller: The Angel and the Fiend, by Anthony Penrose (commissioned by The Getty Center; performed at The Getty Center and The Chance Theater)

Orange County Premiere
Spring's Awakening, by Frank Wedekind, translated by Carl R. Mueller

2002

Awards and Honors

Best of 2002, OC Register
     Three Days of Rain (Production, Director, Performance - Joseph Horn)
     The Gondoliers (Production - Honorable Mention)
     As You Like It (Performances - Ramlah Frediani, Joseph Horn, Erika C. Miller)
     Molly Sweeney (Performances - Jill Cary Martin and Tom Turnley)
     Trail of Tears (Performance - Richard Comeau)
     Nine (Performance - Erika Amato)

4 OC Weekly Award nominations
Nine (Best Musical, Best Actress - Erika Amato)
A History of the American Film (Best Musical, Best Ensemble)

3 Northern Lights Creson Awards
     Strongest Season
     Molly Sweeney (Best Actress - Jill Cary Martin)
     A History of the American Film (Best Ensemble)

Premieres

World Premieres
Trail of Tears, by Joseph Hullett
The Worthy Master of the Law, by Mark Scrivener

West Coast Premiere
Dead White Males, by William Missouri Downs

2001

Awards and Honors

Best of 2001, OC Register
Unrelenting Relaxation (Production, Director - Amanda DeMaio)
The Angelina Project (Performance - Sigalit Solitto)

OC Weekly Award
Unrelenting Relaxation (Best Ensemble)

2 OC Weekly Award nominations
For Pete's Sake (Best New Play)
Therese Raquin (Best Actress - Liz Simmons)

Northern Lights Creson Award
Unrelenting Relaxation

Premieres

World Premieres
     Confirmation, by Joseph Hullett
     The Angelina Project, by Frank Canino
     Dragons in New York, by Pattric Walker
     For Pete's Sake, by J.R. Sussman

West Coast Premiere
Therese Raquin, by Emile Zola, adapted by Neal Bell

Southern California Premiere
Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott, adapted by Lisa Duvall

2000

Premieres

World Premieres
     The Stroop Report, by Robert Preston Jones
     The Stop My Insanity Trilogy, by Chris Secor
     The Beach... Without Leo, by The Chance Theater Repertory Company
     Scream 4, by Chris Ceballos and Eileen Dreger
     X , by David LeMaster

West Coast Premieres
Nobody Knows I'm A Dog, by Alan David Perkins
Where Men Are Empty Overcoats, by Eric Pfeffinger

1999

World Premieres
     The Wednesday Night Save The World Society, by Dave Eisenstark and Fred Burke
     Memories On The Wind, by Kent Johnson
     Episode II, by The Chance Theater Repertory Company
     But I Don't FEEL Grown Up, by Chris Ceballos, Erika C. Miller, Jeff Hellebrand and Oanh Nguyen
     Green Stone Soup, by Green Stone Players
     Wish You Were Here!, by Joseph Hullett
     Holiday Tidings, by Green Stone Players

Affiliations:
     Theatre Communications Group
     Network of Ensemble Theaters
     Los Angeles Stage Alliance
     Arts Orange County
     Anaheim Arts Council
     Anaheim Chamber of Commerce
     Yorba Linda Chamber of Commerce
     Canyon Hills Community Council