About Us
Since 1986, the Shakespeare Center of Los Angeles (SCLA) has been a vibrant hub for award-winning, contemporary interpretations of Shakespeare’s plays and other great works while serving our community through programs designed to engage and enrich people from all walks of life. Our Mission is to provide Los Angeles with innovative, world-class theatrical productions of Shakespeare and other great works, high-quality arts education and workforce development programs for underserved youth, veterans, and formerly incarcerated people — because arts engagement builds community and changes lives.
SCLA has consistently produced critically acclaimed world-class theater linked to arts-based workforce programs and arts education initiatives that have been nationally replicated. We have created thousands of summer arts-based employment opportunities for poverty-threshold youth; have paid youth more than $2 million in wages; and have hired and trained hundreds of chronically under-employed veterans to crew our productions, paying them more than $500,000 in wages. Our programs and productions have received recognition from the National Youth Employment Coalition, U.S. Department of Education, and the National Endowment for the Arts, among others.
Core Beliefs
The Shakespeare Center of Los Angeles believes that live theater is a birthright. We create plays and programs that are catalysts for change and that reflect and engage the people, landscape, and history of Los Angeles.
Financial Documents
View our fiscal year 2022-2023 Consolidated Financial Statement & Form 990.
Land Acknowledgement
Shakespeare Center of Los Angeles respectfully acknowledges that its board of directors, staff members, artists, teaching artists, program participants, and patrons live, work, create art, present, and attend performances on the unceded territories of the indigenous Gabrieleño culture and Kizh, Chumash, and Tongva nations. We honor and respect the many indigenous peoples connected to this land and express our admiration for their resilience and for the many important cultural leaders in the region—past, present, and future.