Crowded Kitchen Players was born in Pamela Wallace's kitchen in January 2000 and began with the production of Larry Gelbart's comedy "Sly Fox," produced at the Mauch Chunk Opera House in Jim Thorpe. For two years CKP produced such classic productions as "The Front Page," "Twentieth Century," and "A Christmas Carol." The next few years found CKP producing shows at various locations in Allentown and Bethlehem, PA. In 2007, they took up residence at McCoole's Arts & Events Place in Quakertown, PA. Past productions include: The Cocoanuts, Born Yesterday, Parfumerie, Design for Murder, Animal Crackers, Death Takes A Holiday, The Maltese Falcon, The 39 Steps, Brendan, Rumors, State of the Union, Driving Miss Daisy,Tovarich, To Be or Not To Be, The Sleeping Princess & The Ballad of Nail Broth, (CKP's first children's show), The Manchurian Candidate, Play Ball (aka Chicago), The Prisoner of Zenda, Witness for the Prosecution, Arsenic and Old Lace, Room Service, Noises Off, I Hate Hamlet, Inspecting Carol, Rumors, A Christmas Carol, Sherlock Holmes, A Thurber Carnival, A Slight Case of Murder, And Then There Were None, Inherit the Wind, Heaven Can Wait and Sly Fox, as well as six original plays by Ara Barlieb:The Down of a Thistle, It Would Take a Miracle, Here Lies Seymour P. Needlemeyer, Sherlock Holmes & The Adventure of the Christmas Goose, The Resurrection of Seymour P.