Help Us Choose Our 2017 Season!

Please contact us with your suggestions for plays for Actors Ensemble to produce in the 2017 season.

Here are some ideas: The Importance of Being Earnest by Oscar Wilde – We earnestly think you will laugh hysterically. The Rivals by Sheridan - Ms. Malaprop runs amock! Lovers …

Watch out! Sense and Sensibility by Jane Austen. Prudence? Love? Heartbreak? Or Not … The Knight of the Burning Pestle by Beaumont - The first parody on the English Stage. Who needs the 4th wall? Rhinoceros by Ionesco - Everyone is turning into one …. except Berenger.

Like one of these ideas? Have another one? Or maybe you’d just like to be involved?  Email us with your suggestions at This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.  or send us a letter to our P.O. Box:

Actors Ensemble
P.O. Box 663
Berkeley, CA 94701

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Actors Ensemble of Berkeley or AEB, as it is nicknamed, began in a casual conversation about theatre between Bill Matheson and George Marchi 1955. This conversation lead to meetings that included Ernest Landauer, Joseph Landisman, George Marchi, Edward Markmann, Al Stern, and Arnold Wolf, and incorporation in 1957. In 1966 we had our first performance at Berkeley’s Live Oak Theatre, and more recently also in the John Hinkel Park Amphitheatre. The philosophy of AEB is attributed to UC Berkeley Professor Fred Harris and his wife Mary. They taught that Dramatic Action is created by the actor through his imagination and awareness of the interaction in the ensemble relationship with all the other