Our model is flexible by design. Semele Projects allows each project to find the shape it needs. A collaboration might become a commission, a workshop, a production, a residency, an educational program, a staged reading, or a public conversation.
What matters is the charge at the center of the work: a bold idea, an urgent question, and a group of people willing to make something alive from it.
Semele Projects collaborates with theatres, schools, arts organizations, venues, and community partners to bring ambitious projects into public view. We help shape theatrical work that is artistically rigorous, culturally engaged, and built for the audience it hopes to reach.
We support the creation and development of new work, from first impulse to full production. Whether commissioning a playwright, developing an interdisciplinary project, or helping a new theatrical idea find its structure, we make space for work that needs time, risk, and care.
Semele Projects invites artists into meaningful creative exchange. We are interested in voices that challenge form, ask difficult questions, and bring new theatrical languages into the room. Our work grows through conversation, rehearsal, experimentation, and trust.
Semele Projects has collaborated with organizations, institutions, and artists to produce projects that tell bold stories, explore vital questions, capture the imagination, and engage the mind.
Recent collaborations include the commissioning and development of This is the Subtext by Brian James Polak, creative producing for Chapman University’s College of Performing Arts, the development of a new high school theatre arts camp at Los Angeles Valley College, and the continued development of Independent, a verbatim play about the war in Ukraine and threats to American democracy at home.