Chautauqua Theater Company (CTC), the resident theater company of Chautauqua Institution, produces high-quality, live theater during Chautauqua’s nine-week Summer Assembly. Committed to the development of new work and the next generation of theater artists, CTC offers the best in classical, contemporary, and new plays featuring a company of internationally acclaimed professional actors, directors, designers, playwrights, and faculty, alongside the finest emerging actors in the country. Under the leadership of Producing Artistic Director Jade King Carroll, CTC is dedicated to becoming a national home for exciting new plays: commissioning, developing and producing new and established American playwrights, including the development of Noah Haidle’s Birthday Candles, which went on to premiere on Broadway starring Debra Messing at Roundabout Theatre Company. Productions and workshops in the 2023 season included works by Kate Hamill, Chisa Hutchinson, Sofya Levitsky-Weitz, Mike Lew, and Harrison David Rivers. Chautauqua Theater Company is actively building the brighter future of the American theater.