The Shotgun Players is a critically acclaimed California

California

California is a state located on the West Coast of the United States. It is by far the most populous U.S. state, and the third-largest by land area...

 East Bay

East Bay

-Places:In Canada:*East Bay, Nova Scotia, a small town in Cape Breton County, Nova Scotia*East Bay , the east arm of the Bras d'Or Lake located in Cape Breton County, Nova Scotia on Cape Breton IslandIn the United States:...

 regional theater group

Regional theatre in the United States

Regional theaters, or resident theaters, in the United States are professional or semi-professional, theater companies that produce their own seasons. The term regional theatre most often refers to professional theatres outside of New York City...

 formed in a pizza parlor in Berkeley, California

Berkeley, California

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 in 1992 by artistic director

Artistic director

An artistic director is the executive of an arts organization, particularly in a theatre company, that handles the organization's artistic direction. He or she is generally a producer and director, but not in the sense of a mogul, since the organization is generally a non-profit organization...

 Patrick Dooley. The group specializes in unfamiliar productions by modern playwright

Playwright

A playwright, also called a dramatist, is a person who writes plays.The term is not a variant spelling of "playwrite", but something quite distinct: the word wright is an archaic English term for a craftsman or builder...

s, Greek

Greece

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 plays, and Shakespeare. In December 2007 the theater acting troupe became one of the first regional theaters in the nation to convert to solar power

Solar power

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 by installing solar panels on the roof of their Ashby Stage performance space in Berkeley's Lorin District

Lorin District

The Lorin district is a neighborhood located in the southern part of Berkeley, California, bounded by Ashby Avenue, Adeline Street, Martin Luther King Jr...

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