Hunger Artists Theatre Company
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Founded in 1996 by a group of longtime friends, The Hunger Artists Theatre Company is the first Orange County-based alternative theater to grow out of Orange Coast College's Repertory Theater. While at Coast, the future members of The Hunger Artists honed their craft as actors, directors, playwrights and technicians, while developing the hip, smart, irreverent attitude and subversive theatrical sensibility that would later earn them notice as one of the county's most adventurous and unpredictable small theater companies.
Named after a short story by Franz Kafka, the company received its start with a Halloween show titled Madame Guignol's Macabre Theatre. The show has become a Halloween tradition and is now in its tenth year.
Since then, the Fullerton, California troupe has received numerous acclaim and awards for plays like "The Metamorphosis", "Bash" and "4.48 Psychosis", reworkings of classic like "White Trash Private Lives" and an all-male "The Importance of Being Earnest", and musicals like "Sweeney Todd", "Assassins" and "Hedwig and the Angry Inch". In Winter 2006, the troupe performed an original comedy entitled "The Flying Spaghetti Monster Holiday Pageant," a parody of traditional holiday pageants based on Bobby Henderson's Flying Spaghetti Monster.
