ABOUT US

mission & Vision

Bottle Tree Theatre is a Black femme led creative collective dedicated to unapologetically bridging the gap between the rich world of artistic imagination and the often perilous reality of production through communal guidance and support.

In our work, and in honor of our ancestors, we acknowledge the past as present and revere the collective futures that belong to us all. This work is rooted in cultural connectivity, ETERNAL  history, and reflections of black joy.

who we are

chelsea. kacie. jaquita. Years before we even knew what we were waiting for, bottle tree was being built between laughs and dance parties and knowing looks. we are the reflectors of the future, the perpetuators of history, the conduits of right now. we are bottle tree.


  • Co-Founder and Artistic Director

    Chelsea is the co-founder and co-creative director of Bottle Tree Theatre Company. She is an actor, writer, and producer from Los Angeles and a graduate of Cal State Fullerton’s theatre program. Chelsea’s unapologetic hope for Bottle Tree is that with every project, forever seeking to illuminate all the ways in which creativity cultivates community and vice versa.


  • Co-Founder & Artistic Director

    Two time NAACP Award winning actor/writer, Kacie Rogers, received her classical training at AMDA College and Conservatory of the Performing Arts. You can find Kacie on screen as the face of the new board game Disparity Trap as well as on episodes of several TV shows including Curb Your Enthusiasm and Grace & Frankie. Kacie has also had the opportunity of working with several prestigious theatre companies in the Los Angeles area including The Robey Theatre Co., The Road Theatre Co., Circle X, Theatre40, Theatricum Botanicum, Greenway Court, The Getty Villa, Sacred Fools Theatre Co., The Skylight Theatre, IAMA, Inkwell Theatre and The Fountain Theatre. She is a proud member of the Center Theater Group Community Storytellers and you can find her self written & performed short, Ol' Auntie Jemmie, streaming on their website. In 2021, Kacie was a recipient of the Shay Fellowship; a program aimed at cultivating the next generation of theater professionals by providing the highest standard of training through immersion in the art. Through the fellowship, Kacie wrote her one woman show, I Sell Windows. Kacie's full length play, Oladele or The Forgotten Song, was selected for the IAMA New works Festival in 2022 and received its first public reading during the festival. Kacie co-produced, wrote, and starred in her first short film, SHOUT, in 2022 which enjoyed a successful run on the film festival circuit. Kacie is more than grateful to God, her friends, family, and agent/manager dream team for all of their support on this journey. To keep a closer eye on what Kacie is working on next, sign up for Kacie's Guest List at kacierogers.com.


  • Co-Founder & Artistic Director

    A lifelong Angeleno and 3rd generation artist, Jaquita Ta’le is honored to be making her official directorial debut with “I Sell Windows”. While training at NYU Tisch’s Experimental Theatre Wing, she also studied spoken word performance and poetry at Johannesburg’s University of Witwatersrand and modern, folkloric, and experimental dance in Havana, Cuba. Jaquita is a co-founder and co-creative director for the emerging theatre company Bottle Tree Theatre. Special thanks to Alani and Zozi for your unconditional love and patience! Credits include: (Theater) The Heal (The Getty Villa), Too Heavy For Your Pocket (Sacred Fools), (Little Children Dream of God (The Road Theatre), And Then They Fell (Atwater Village Theatre), (Film/Television) Pinocchio, Good Behavior, Castle, Shameless, Criminal Minds, ER. As a DJ under the moniker “Eartha Littt”, Jaquita’s spun at venues like The Line Hotel, The Beverly Wilshire Hotel, The Montalbán, The Craft Contemporary Museum, Space 1520, and Los Globos.

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