The Hunger Artists Theatre Company was an alternative theatre company located in a

business park in Fullerton, California. They were known for presenting challenging, thought-
provoking plays musicals, world premiere pieces, and re-imaginings of classic plays.

The Hunger Artists Theatre Company was founded in 1996 by a group of longtime friends is
the first Orange County-based alternative theater to grow out of Orange Coast College's
Repertory Theater.[1]

Named after a short story by Franz Kafka, the company received its start with
a Halloween show titled Madame Guignol's Macabre Theatre. The show became a Halloween
tradition and was presented each Halloween for ten years before retiring in 2005.[2]

The Hunger Artists received numerous acclaim and awards for contemporary plays such as
"Bash: Latter-Day Plays", "4.48 Psychosis" and "The Gog/Magog Project", world premieres
such as "The Land Southward", "The Flying Spaghetti Monster Holiday Pageant" and "The
Pledge Drive: Ruminations On The Hunger Artist", world premiere adaptations of literary
works such as "The Metamorphosis", "Little Women" and "Rudyard Kipling's Jungle
Book", reworkings of classic plays such as "White Trash Private Lives", "Re: Woyzeck" and
an all-male "The Importance of Being Earnest", musicals such as "Sweeney Todd",
"Assassins" and "Hedwig and the Angry Inch", one-act festivals such as Beyond Convention,
24 Hour Theater and Last Chance Fest, and original late-night entertainment such as the
Orange County Underground Burlesque Society and Muddville.[3]

The company closed in December, 2012.[4] Hit hard by the recession, the company became the
third Fullerton theater in two years to shut its doors due to financial pressures