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...to the website of Paula Cizmar, an award-winning playwright whose work often combines poetry and politics to get at the heart of a matter. Her plays have been produced all over the world. Here you'll find information about upcoming performances, past productions, and new plays, plus news and reviews, photos, and thoughts, always changing, always growing.
The Pageant – Cast & Crew
Filming in the pandemic while keeping everyone safe and secure–that’s what director Diana Wyenn and 3Gems producers Christopher Sepulveda and Sandy Barnum decided to take on so that The Pageant could be part of the 2021 Climate Change Theatre Action. The intrepid cast and crew worked outdoors to pull it...
The Pageant – an eco-justice comedy has a screening
The global arts event, Climate Change Theatre Action, happens every two years to coincide with the UN climate change conference, and so the 2021 CCTA is underway. I’m delighted that my short comedy, The Pageant, is part of it. This year’s theme is A Green New Deal–so I couldn’t help but imagine...
Invisible – A Bolt of Dramatic Lightning
Our short opera INVISIBLE was part of Snapshot this summer–and the San Francisco Chronicle doled out some much-appreciated compliments, calling it a “compressed explosive bundle, just primed to erupt.” Produced by West Edge Opera at the outdoor Bruns Amphitheatre in the Bay Area, the live performance was a welcome change...
ideas and issues
and thoughts about life, justice, culture, and the way we can all try to make a better world. that's the goal. keep on keeping on.