With support from the California Arts Council, Latino Theater Company will produce and host “Encuentro: 2024”, a multicultural national theater festival dedicated to showcasing New American Theater of equality and underrepresented voices and artists at the Los Angeles Theatre Center.
LTC was founded in 1985, and has grown into one of the nation’s premiere Latino theater companies. As LTC has evolved, our role as the operator of the LATC has become critical to our mission. As we continue to explore the U.S. Latine experience in bold and contemporary terms in our work, we program our Fall and Spring Seasons with work that speaks to important issues and highlight new voices within the Latine, African-American, Asian-American, Jewish-American and LBTGQ+ communities. As the company has evolved, our role as the operator of the Los Angeles Theatre Center has become critical to our mission. Since assuming operations in 2007, we have:
Produced 164 plays and created over 4,318 jobs
Helped 1,080 nonprofit organizations by providing theater space and resources.
Welcomed an audience of 63,000 in 2019, and 20,575 in 2022.
Served Southern California by exposing new audiences and young people to the theater where they can see themselves, their culture, and their stories on our stages.
Made Los Angeles the global center for Latinx theater.
As the Latino Theater Company approaches its 38th year of operations as a culturally-specific and unique ensemble of artists who have created work essential to the Latine U.S. theatrical canon, the need to plan and implement a succession plan to a new generation of artists has become a priority. The incoming leadership will work in tandem with outgoing leadership to learn the company’s organizational culture, behavior and identity, participate in artistic and managerial decisions, and make a smooth transition into their respective leadership roles to guarantee organizational sustainability during and post-succession.

