With support from the California Arts Council, Center Theatre Group (CTG) will produce the fourth iteration of the Storytelling Residency program during the 2025/26 Season. The Storytelling Residency program engages nearly 100 high school students each year across three classrooms as they learn about the art of storytelling by collectively creating a play through a devised theatre project. Each iteration of the program is anchored in a dramatic text that serves as inspiration for students as they study the script and attend the play, with the 2025/26 Season anchor text being JAJA’S AFRICAN HAIR BRAIDING by Jocelyn Bioh. Led by experienced Teaching Artists, the Storytelling Residency provides access for students to engage in quality arts experiences, fosters young people’s voices and creativity, and cultivates skills such leadership and collaboration.
Comprising the 2,000-seat Ahmanson Theatre, the 736-seat Mark Taper Forum, and the 317-seat Kirk Douglas Theatre, CTG is one of the nation’s largest regional theatres and one of the few regional theatres to successfully produce a broad variety of programming each season. CTG is committed to furthering its mission through programming that meets the challenge of producing and presenting work of the highest quality, while engaging a broad and diverse audience, and expanding community access and arts learning opportunities. These efforts include a robust Artistic Development Program offering commissions of new work, readings and workshops, and an annual L.A. Writers’ Workshop; and an Education and Community Partnerships Department dedicated to providing comprehensive year-round arts education and access to over 20,000 students, educators, and community members each year.

