In 2006, The Actors Gang was selected by the Culver City Redevelopment Agency to be the Resident Company in the historic Ivy Substation.

The Ivy Substation, so-called for the land development where it was located, was built in 1907 by the Los Angeles Pacific Railway Company. The Ivy was a branch of the electrical generation and distribution system in which electricity was transformed and distributed for use by the electric railway system.

The first electric trains had motors which used direct current (DC). However, electric power is distributed as alternating current (AC) for its higher efficiency. Ivy Substation was one of the power substations in which electric current was received as AC to be transformed and distributed as DC.

One of the largest electric substations along the "Balloon Route" rail line from downtown Los Angeles to the Pacific Ocean, construction of the Ivy Substation was one of a number of improvements made possible by the acquisition of a 51% interest in the company by Southern Pacific in early 1906.

Southern Pacific invested large sums of money in upgrading Los Angeles Pacific Railway's system, including acquiring larger, heavier and more powerful railcars that required more energy to run. The new Ivy Substation thus was essential to supply the additional electrical power needed for this heavier rolling stock, and continued in importance after the Los Angeles Pacific merged into the Pacific Electric (PE) in 1911. The Substation was reported to have contained two thirteen-hundred kilowatt motor-generator sets during the PE era.

The Ivy Substation was last used to furnish current for the Santa Monica Air line, whose one daily round-trip passenger run was discontinued in 1953; at about the some time, the electric locomotives used for freight service on the line were replaced by diesel-electrics, and the Substation was retired from use as such and all electrical equipment removed.

The Ivy Substation is listed on the National Register of Historic Places, and is designated as Los Angeles Historic-Cultural Monument No. 182. The Substation is believed to be the only remaining major structure built by the Los Angeles Pacific Company to survive with a substantially unaltered exterior, and one of the least-altered electric railway substation buildings to survive in Southern California. It may also be the only major Mission Revival style industrial building in Los Angeles County to survive with an essentially unchanged look, including its original park-like setting.

Spring 1993 heralded the completion of the two-million-dollar renovation of Ivy Substation and Media Park. The renovation is the result of interjurisdictional cooperation between the City of Los Angeles and the Culver City Redevelopment Agency. Renovation of the building and park was funded by the Culver City Redevelopment Agency pursuant to a 40-year lease with the City of Los Angeles. Design and construction plans for the renovation were prepared by Architect Milford Wayne Donaldson, FAIA, and the renovation contractor was Driver-Eddy Construction Company. Construction Management service was provided by Tishman Construction Corporation of Los Angeles.

In the fall of 2002, the interior of the Ivy Substation was renovated from a multi-purpose performance event space into a 99-seat theater. The interior design was produced by Steven Ehrlich Architects with construction performed by Matt Construction.