The Orlando Theatre Project is a nonprofit professional theatre company based in Sanford, Florida, near Orlando. The company was founded in 1985 and operates under an Actors' Equity Association contract.
The company is in residence at Seminole Community College and produces some of its plays with the college, enabling students to work with the company. The company also stages some of its shows at Orlando Repertory Theatre in Orlando's Loch Haven Park.
Most of the Orlando Theatre Project's productions are contemporary plays which have been previously been produced on Broadway, Off-Broadway, in the United Kingdom or in regional theatres in the United States.
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