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Kitchen Theatre Company (KTC) is a
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professional theater company in
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that focuses on making “bold, intimate, and engaging" theater. The Kitchen was founded in 1991 and is now in its 27th season. KTC is a member of the
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and operates under a Small Professional Theater contract with the
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.


History

Kitchen Theatre Company was created in 1991. KTC resided at the Clinton House from 1995 to 2009. In 2010, Kitchen Theatre Company (KTC) moved to 417 W. Martin Luther King, Jr. Street, making history by becoming the first theater company in Ithaca to own its own location. They raised $1.2M to construct a LEED-certified
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building that includes a 99-seat thrust stage space, dressing rooms, green room, scene shop, inner lobby, outer lobby/art gallery, hospitality bar, box office, and a glass entranceway called "the beacon". Artistic Director Emerita Rachel Lampert led the company from 1997 to 2017. Lampert retired at the end of the 2016-2017 season, and M. Bevin O’Gara took the helm as the company’s new Producing Artistic Director. O’Gara came to the Kitchen from Boston, where she was Associate Producer at the
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and directed productions throughout the
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area.


Productions

Production highlights include: * Rob Ackerman’s play ''Call Me Waldo'' premiered at the KTC in January 2012 and was produced later the same year in NYC by the Working Theatre. * Kitchen Theatre Artistic Director Rachel Lampert and composer Larry Pressgrove (music director, ''
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'') have written five musicals together, all of which premiered at the Kitchen Theatre. Their musical ''The Angle of the Sun'' premiered at the Kitchen and was then presented at the New York Musical Theatre Festival. * Rachel Lampert's play ''The Soup Comes Last'' premiered at the Kitchen and then moved to the 59e59th street theater. Her play ''Precious Nonsense'' premiered at the Kitchen and had its second production at Circle Bar-B Dinner Theater in Santa Barbara, CA. * Four new plays by Brian Dykstra have had their first full productions at the Kitchen Theatre Company: ''Brian Dykstra Selling Out'' (2012)''The Two of You'' (2009), ''A Play on Words'' (2010, then played at 59E59 Street Theatres in the America’s Off Broadway Festival) and ''Strangerhorse'' (2007). * ''The Drunken City'' by
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was commissioned by the KTC and had its world premiere in 2005.The New York City premiere was in 2008 at
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. * First productions of plays by
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(''Archaeology'', 2009) and
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(''Pecan Tan'', 2005).


Achievements

* 2014 Best Theatre Company (Best of Ithaca 2014). * 2011 Best Theatre Company (Best of Ithaca 2011). * 2008
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Live Theater Award, Best Production of the Summer Season (''Souvenir'' by Stephen Temperley, directed by Sara Lampert Hoover). * Since 2007, the Kitchen Theatre Company has received operating support from the
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, a national foundation dedicated to sustaining and advancing the live performing arts in the United States. * 2006 Best Small Business of the Year Award,
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Chamber of Commerce. The Kitchen was the first not-for-profit recipient of this award. * 2005 Syracuse Live Theatre Award, Best Actor in a Season (Karl Gregory in ''Fully Committed'' by Becky Mode). * 2005 Syracuse Live Theater Award, Best Actress of the Summer Season ( Rachel Lampert in ''The Soup Comes Last'').


References

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