The Center for New Performance at CalArts was established in 1999 as a forum for the creation of groundbreaking theatrical performance. Seminal artists from around the world are brought to the CNT to develop work that expands the language, discourse, and boundaries of contemporary theater. The Center supports a producing model that is artist and project specific, giving priority to performance that cannot be easily produced in other circumstances. The avant-garde aesthetic of the California Institute of the Arts provides the ideal context for rigorous collaborations between significant guest artists and the CalArts community.

Travis Preston, Artistic Director
Carol Bixler, Producing Director
Jon Gottlieb, Acting Dean of the School of Theater