Finding Aid for the Actors' Gang Records PASC-M.0319
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Online finding aid last updated 2015.
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Title: Actors' Gang records
Creator:
Actors' Gang (Theater ensemble)
Identifier/Call Number: PASC-M.0319
Physical Description:
1 unknown
(20 boxes)
Date: circa 1981
Abstract: The collection consists of the records of the Los Angeles theater company, The Actors' Gang. Included in the collection are
production records, business papers, scripts and assorted materials pertaining to the theater company founded by Tim Robbins.
The collection is in the midst of being processed. The finding aid will be updated periodically.
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Language of Material: Materials are in English.
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[Identification of item], Actors' Gang Records (Collection PASC-M 319). UCLA Library Special Collections, Charles E. Young
Research Library, University of California, Los Angeles.
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Historical Note
The Actors' Gang is one of Los Angeles' most enduring theatre ensembles. Founded in 1981 by a group of renegade theatre artists,
the Gang's mission is to create bold, original works for the stage and daring reinterpretations of the classics.
Over the course of our first 20 years the company has produced 68 plays and won over 100 awards, winning acclaim for their
interpretations of Shakespeare, Bruchner, Brecht, Moliere, Aeschylus, Ibsen and Chekhov, while developing in workshop new
plays that address the world today through a prism of satire, popular culture and raucous stagecraft.
Through co-productions, The Actors' Gang presented the West Coast Premiere of Eric Bogosian's "Suburbia" with the Namaste
Theatre Company, Roger Guenver Smith's "A Huey P. Newton Story," Danny Hoch's "Jails, Hospitals, Hip Hop" with Center Theatre
Group, and "Medea/Macbeth/Cinderella" with The Cornerstone Theatre Company. The Actors' Gang has toured with productions as
the US representative at the Edinburgh Festival and to New York's Public Theatre with "Carnage, A Comedy"; with "The Imaginary
Invalid" to the Rushmore Festival in New York, and in 2001 saw "Bat Boy, A Musical," developed at the Actors' Gang, won the
Lucille Lortel and Outer Critics award for best new musical Off-Broadway in New York.
Scope and Content
The collection consists of production files, financial papers, scripts, and other assorted materials pertaining to the Los
Angeles theater company.
The collection is organized into the following series:
Missing Title
- Series 1. Financial Papers
- Series 2. Production Files
- Series 3. Development
- Series 4. Clippings
- Series 5. Unprocessed Materials
Subjects and Indexing Terms
Theatrical companies -- California -- Los Angeles -- Archival resources.
Actors' Gang (Theater ensemble) -- Archives
Financial Papers Series 1.
box 1
Unprocessed Payroll Files
2001-2003
box 2
Unprocessed Credit Card Deposits
box 2
Unprocessed Payroll Files
2001-2003
box 5
Unprocessed invoices
1994-1999
box 8
Unprocessed invoices
1994-1999
Production Files Series 2.
Unprocessed Materials Series 5.
box 3
Assorted Materials (unprocessed)
box 4
Assorted Materials (unprocessed)
box 6
Assorted Materials (unprocessed)
box 7
Pitches (unprocessed)
1999
box 9
Assorted Materials (unprocessed)
box 10
Assorted Materials (unprocessed)
box 11
Assorted Materials (unprocessed)
box 12
Assorted Materials (unprocessed)
box 13
Assorted Materials (unprocessed)
box 14
Assorted Materials (unprocessed)
box 15
Assorted Materials (unprocessed)
