Company of Angels, founded in 1959 by a group of television and film actors that included Richard Chamberlain, Leonard Nimoy, and Vic Morrow, Company of Angels is now the oldest professional theater in Los Angeles. As such it has a revised mission to provide a space for the voices and audiences neglected by the major regional theaters. Company of Angels now produces original work by professional theater artists who reflect the communities that make up the City of Los Angeles and engages residents from low-income communities including Boyle Heights and Skid Row to develop original theater pieces for performance. In this way CoA re-envisions theater to reflect and respond to the richness, diversity, and complexity that is Los Angeles, entertaining new audiences and serving the City of Angels.

Ric Salinas is an original member of the critically acclaimed performance troupe Culture Clash; he and his co-creators, Richard Montoya and Herbert Sigüenza, have written dozens of plays. Ric is a theater artist, writer, social commentator and activist. He toured for several years with his solo show, 57 Chevy and also toured as the lead in the Salvadoran specific play, Placas: The Most Dangerous Tattoo. He has directed several shows for Teatro Zinzanni, a Cirque du Soleil-type show in San Francisco and Seattle. Ric wrote the books for two operas for the Long Beach Opera, adapting The Fairy Queen and King Arthur, both by Henry Purcell.  Culture Clash created the first ever Latino comedy sketch show airing on FOX-TV, producing, writing and starring in this television milestone. On the film front you can catch Ric in Encino Man, Hero, Mi Vida Loca, Larry Crowne.