Chance Theater Gala Auction

Imagine an evening where every moment is filled with magic, elegance, and purpose. As you step into Lady Fyda-Mar’s Grande Soirée, you’ll be transported into a world where art, community, and celebration come together for a cause that’s bigger than all of us.

Your bids will help us raise funds to support our artistic programs, education and outreach efforts, new play development, and the incredible artists who make it all possible!

Prepare to step back in time to the elegance and grandeur of the Regency Era! This exclusive event will dazzle you with enchanting cocktails, elegant dining, a scintillating auction, and spirited performances by Chance artists. The best part? Your presence will help us raise funds to support our artistic programs, education and outreach efforts, new play development, and the incredible artists who make it all possible! To learn more, purchase tickets, or to become a sponsor, visit www.ChanceTheater.com/chance-gala-2024

PLEASE NOTE: The online portion of the auction will be using Extended Bidding. This adds 3 minutes to an item’s end time if a bid comes in during the final 3 minutes. This gives everyone—whether at the event or online—more time to respond and stay in the lead. Bidding continues to extend, up to 30 minutes, until no new bids are placed.

Chance Theater is dedicated to the creation of exciting theatrical experiences, taking artistic risks, and collaborating with gifted and diverse artists on passionate and provocative plays and musicals.

Our Mission:

To contribute to a more connected, compassionate, and creative community.

We accomplish this by producing powerful, socially-conscious, provocative, intimate theater experiences, generating participation and dialogue between our diverse communities, nurturing and supporting local artists, inspiring and empowering creative young minds, and promoting anti-racist and anti-oppression practices to ensure equity, diversity, and inclusion.

Proud to be one of the leading ensemble-driven theatre companies in Southern California, CHANCE THEATER has received the National Theatre Company grant from American Theatre Wing for “nurturing a community of artists in ways that strengthen and demonstrate the quality, diversity, and dynamism of American theatre.”

Recent Awards and Accolades:

The Chance recently won 14 OCTG Theatre Awards, including Outstanding Production of a Musical (Next to Normal) and Outstanding Production of a Play (Cry It Out). Previously, Chance Theater has won eight OCTG Theatre Awards, including Outstand Production of a Musical (Fun Home), eight Ovation Awards, including four for Best Production of a Musical (Intimate Theatre), and four LADCC Awards, including the Polly Warfield Award for Outstanding Season.

The Anaheim City Council named Chance Theater “the Official Resident Theater Company of Anaheim” in 2014, and Arts Orange County has twice named the Chance as “Outstanding Arts Organization.”

Education and Outreach:

For over a decade, The Chance has been helping our community to find their voice and “speak up” about their lives and experiences. Through our Speak Up Teens, Speak Up Spectrum, and Speak up Veterans Programs, we give participants the opportunity to speak so that we have the opportunity to listen. Greater understanding fosters greater empathy. Through these programs, we hope to contribute to a more connected, compassionate, and creative community. Thanks to the generosity of our sponsors, all participants receive full scholarships for these programs

Your Donations:

Known for using bold and personal storytelling to promote dialogue and connection within the Southern California theatrical landscape, the Chance is committed to contributing to a more compassionate, connected and creative community, and your donations help to make all of this possible.

As a constituent member of Theatre Communications Group, The Theatrical Producers League of Los Angeles, and OC Theatre Guild, Chance Theater continues to bring national attention to the Southern California and Orange County theater scene, while also empowering members of our community to share their story to contribute to a more connected, compassionate, and creative community.