Claude McNeal Productions

Founded in 2005, Claude McNeal Productions, is a non-profit educational theatre organization dedicated to empowering and changing the lives of youth and adults through the inspirational dynamism of theatre. With four separate programs, we partner with and serve a variety of artists, schools, and communities in the greater Indianapolis area to provide educational experiences through live theatre presentations, professional development workshops, classroom instruction, and summer training programs.

Our mission is "to inspire and transform lives and cultural organizations through the energizing power of theatre and of theatre-related educational programming, while creating timely and relevant original works that enhance and stimulate the performing arts in Central Indiana."

We partner with and serve a variety of artists, schools, and community organizations to bring alternative educational theatre experiences to children and adults. Our programs operate to inspire future artists and patrons, build healthy relationships, and build character, while instilling a greater sense of self, of cooperation, and belonging to a larger society.  We are committed to bringing high-quality programs to the lowest resourced schools and highest needs populations, primarily in Indianapolis. Our programs work for youth across a wide range of demographics, from elementary to postsecondary schools, inner-city, suburban, and rural students.

The purpose of our organization is to ensure the creation, development, and advancement of original, high-quality, innovative theatre arts and theatre education in the community by improving and increasing the making of theater arts and arts education opportunities for new talent by sharing experience, knowledge, and resources while engaging with the arts of other individuals and organizations. Specific goals are to teach and develop theatre arts skills, to educate with a sense of the changing world around us by highlighting historical context, to encourage bravery, self-expression, collaboration, and critical thinking skills through the arts, to raise self-esteem, to create opportunities for strengthened peer and mentor relationships, and to make and present quality theatre productions.