Poison Apple Productions
Poison Apple Playhouse, 847 Arnold Drive, Martinez, CA 94553
About
Poison Apple Productions offers performing arts education classes, performance experiences, and live theatre entertainment. Participants take part in classes, shows, and playhouse performances as part of a professional children’s theater training program and a wide variety of performing arts experiences for youth and adults.
• Ages: 5–18 years old
Poison Apple Productions has been a non-profit 501(c)3 family run, volunteer based theater company since 2000. It is an international award winning non-profit children’s and community theater production company, and its programs and classes are described as award winning. The company has performed at the Lesher Center for the Arts in Walnut Creek for over 20 years and is known for innovative use of its playhouse performance space in Martinez.
Teaching artists and staff members are described as highly trained, vetted, and passionate about participants’ and audiences’ experience. The founding Artistic and Educational Director is Noelle Arms. The organization fosters original theater productions written and directed by young people, offers creative volunteer opportunities for young people on stage or behind the scenes, and provides scholarships for participants who cannot afford to participate otherwise.
The mission of Poison Apple Productions is to promote increased participation and understanding of live theater by providing affordable performing arts education and enrichment experiences to youth and young adults, as well as affordable access to live theatre entertainment for members of the community, including children, families, senior citizens, and disabled persons. The organization states a strong commitment to a positive, supportive, respectful, and safe environment that encourages learning, creativity, and artistic self-expression for all participants regardless of age, ability, gender, ethnic, or social background. It also states that it strongly stands against racism, discrimination, injustice, and prejudice, and that it is committed to championing policies and practices of cultural equity.
Poison Apple Productions describes its goals as bettering the community one story at a time in its 60 seat playhouse theater space, at the Lesher Center for the Arts, or at other community events, and aims to increase appreciation of performing arts in the local community. The organization also states that it offers fun-filled family entertainment and provides a clean creative space for young artists to feel safe and function productively. One testimonial shared by the program is: “We must all do theatre, to find out who we are, and who we might become.”
Last updated June 17, 2026.
• Ages: 5–18 years old
Poison Apple Productions has been a non-profit 501(c)3 family run, volunteer based theater company since 2000. It is an international award winning non-profit children’s and community theater production company, and its programs and classes are described as award winning. The company has performed at the Lesher Center for the Arts in Walnut Creek for over 20 years and is known for innovative use of its playhouse performance space in Martinez.
Teaching artists and staff members are described as highly trained, vetted, and passionate about participants’ and audiences’ experience. The founding Artistic and Educational Director is Noelle Arms. The organization fosters original theater productions written and directed by young people, offers creative volunteer opportunities for young people on stage or behind the scenes, and provides scholarships for participants who cannot afford to participate otherwise.
The mission of Poison Apple Productions is to promote increased participation and understanding of live theater by providing affordable performing arts education and enrichment experiences to youth and young adults, as well as affordable access to live theatre entertainment for members of the community, including children, families, senior citizens, and disabled persons. The organization states a strong commitment to a positive, supportive, respectful, and safe environment that encourages learning, creativity, and artistic self-expression for all participants regardless of age, ability, gender, ethnic, or social background. It also states that it strongly stands against racism, discrimination, injustice, and prejudice, and that it is committed to championing policies and practices of cultural equity.
Poison Apple Productions describes its goals as bettering the community one story at a time in its 60 seat playhouse theater space, at the Lesher Center for the Arts, or at other community events, and aims to increase appreciation of performing arts in the local community. The organization also states that it offers fun-filled family entertainment and provides a clean creative space for young artists to feel safe and function productively. One testimonial shared by the program is: “We must all do theatre, to find out who we are, and who we might become.”
Last updated June 17, 2026.
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