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The Orlando Theatre Project was a nonprofit professional
theatre company Theatre or theater is a collaborative form of performing art that uses live performers, usually actors or actresses, to present the experience of a real or imagined event before a live audience in a specific place, often a stage. The perfor ...
based in Sanford, Florida, near
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. The company was founded in 1985 and operates under an
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contract. The company was in residence at
Seminole Community College Seminole State College of Florida is a public college with four campuses in Central Florida. It is part of the Florida College System. Founded in 1965, the Florida State Legislature signed a charter creating "Seminole Junior College." The coll ...
and produced some of its plays with the college, enabling students to work with the company. The company also staged some of its shows at Orlando Repertory Theatre in Orlando's Loch Haven Park. Most of the Orlando Theatre Project's productions were contemporary plays which had been previously produced on
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, Off-Broadway, in the
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or in regional theatres in the United States. Orlando Theatre Project closed in 2009 after 23 years of operation citing the poor economy.


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