Shotgun Players

OUR MISSION
The Shotgun Players is a company of artists on a mission to create bold, relevant, affordable theater. We believe in the power of theater as a mechanism through which we and our community examine ourselves and the world.

OUR STORY
Shotgun Players exists to create fearless, provocative, relevant theatre. Founding Artistic Director Patrick Dooley started the company in 1992 with four eager actors and a bucket of paint. Now approaching our nineteenth year, nothing pleases us more than to tackle projects other companies believe would be too expensive, too unwieldy or just plain impossible. For our first thirteen years we performed in 44 different spaces then in 2004 we found a permanent home at The Ashby Stage in South Berkeley. Rather than becoming complacent, we have a passionate hunger for bigger challenges. Audiences have come to expect astonishing theatre from Shotgun Players.