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. The program includes original theater productions written and directed by young people, along with creative volunteer opportunities for young people both on stage and behind the scenes. It also presents fun-filled family entertainment through its playhouse performances and other shows.
• Ages: 5–18 years old
Poison Apple Productions is an international award winning non-profit children’s and community theater production company and a family run, volunteer based theater company. It operates as a professional children’s theater training program with a wide variety of performing arts experiences for youth and adults 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, and the classes are award winning. The organization has been a non-profit, family run, volunteer based theater company since 2000 and has performed at the Lesher Center for the Arts in Walnut Creek for over 20 years. Leadership includes Founding Artistic and Educational Director Noelle Arms.
The stated mission 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 children, families, senior citizens, disabled persons, and other community members. The mission also emphasizes 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. The organization notes that it strongly stands against racism, discrimination, injustice, and prejudice, and it expresses a commitment to championing policies and practices of cultural equity, supported by a non-discrimination policy and transgender resources. It describes its space as a clean creative space for young artists to feel safe and function productively and offers the Kevin Redrico scholarship.
Poison Apple Productions states that its goals include bettering the community one story at a time through its 60 seat playhouse theater space, performances at the Lesher Center for the Arts, and other community events, and it highlights increased appreciation of performing arts in the local community. The company identifies itself as primarily a children’s theater that creates high quality theater that happens to include children. A quote shared by the program is, “We must all do theatre, to find out who we are, and who we might become.” — Augusto Boal.
Last updated March 18, 2026.
• Ages: 5–18 years old
Poison Apple Productions is an international award winning non-profit children’s and community theater production company and a family run, volunteer based theater company. It operates as a professional children’s theater training program with a wide variety of performing arts experiences for youth and adults 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, and the classes are award winning. The organization has been a non-profit, family run, volunteer based theater company since 2000 and has performed at the Lesher Center for the Arts in Walnut Creek for over 20 years. Leadership includes Founding Artistic and Educational Director Noelle Arms.
The stated mission 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 children, families, senior citizens, disabled persons, and other community members. The mission also emphasizes 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. The organization notes that it strongly stands against racism, discrimination, injustice, and prejudice, and it expresses a commitment to championing policies and practices of cultural equity, supported by a non-discrimination policy and transgender resources. It describes its space as a clean creative space for young artists to feel safe and function productively and offers the Kevin Redrico scholarship.
Poison Apple Productions states that its goals include bettering the community one story at a time through its 60 seat playhouse theater space, performances at the Lesher Center for the Arts, and other community events, and it highlights increased appreciation of performing arts in the local community. The company identifies itself as primarily a children’s theater that creates high quality theater that happens to include children. A quote shared by the program is, “We must all do theatre, to find out who we are, and who we might become.” — Augusto Boal.
Last updated March 18, 2026.
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