The Company

Founded in 2017, Coin & Ghost is LA’s theatrical home for remixed mythology. We define “mythology” broadly, as any set of stories that simultaneously SHAPED and WAS SHAPED BY a culture, a lens that allows us to explore not only traditionally understood myths – Greek, Roman, Creation Myths, etc. – but contemporary source material as well. Comic books have a mythology to them, as do the collected works of James Baldwin; the Kennedy dynasty could be viewed as American mythology, as could the Kardashian dynasty.

We take these stories that exist somewhere within our collective understanding, then collaborate with playwrights and ensemble-devising techniques to forge our own, new understanding. We remix. That is to say, we sample, recontextualize, adapt, and transform, filtering the source material through Coin & Ghost’s voice and aesthetic. If the MYTHOLOGY belongs to the collective, to the community – then the REMIX is unique to the artists in the room.

Coin & Ghost has been invited to create/perform at some of LA’s most notable theatrical institutions – including Pasadena Playhouse, the Kirk Douglas Theatre, and A Noise Within – and our work has been praised as “visually captivating” and “ambitious” (Stage Raw), “thrillingly theatrical” (Stage Scene LA), and “uniquely entertaining” (LA Weekly).

Coin & Ghost is dedicated to adventurous and accessible theatre. Our mission is to inspire empathy, imagination, and community through creative works and education programs rooted in cultural mythologies. 

Bravery: We take big risks.
Authenticity: We bring our full selves to the work.
Connection: We take care of our community.
Resilience: We learn and grow from every experience.
Play: We explore freely and joyfully.

A COIN is, quite literally, a known quantity. It is a physical representation of stored value, a token of culturally-determined worth, and an accepted, established method of trade. A GHOST, on the other hand, defies universal understanding. If it exists at all, it is ephemeral. Volatile. An echo of what once was, whether painful, sentimental, warm, or dangerous.

We chose the name COIN & GHOST because our work juxtaposes the PERMANENT (what is accepted, expected, established, conventional, and ritual) with the UNSTABLE (what is ridiculous, surprising, experimental, bizarre, and eccentric).

As one would “coin a new term,” we create new mythologies out of thin air. As one would “ghost from a party,” we disappear these stories without a trace — and create brand new ones in their place.