How do we talk about what is beautiful and what we are in danger of losing? How do we look at places that are in crisis and people who are in danger of losing their homelands, their livelihoods, and all that they love? One way is through theatre. Monica Sanchez–director,…
Writers are alone with the blank page when they create. As a natural introvert, this is something I look forward to much of the time. But then there is a gnawing sensation that won’t go away: What is going on outside? What am I missing? How can I be a…
There are some projects that are fun and satisfying from the very beginning, and getting selected to write THE VIG for season two of Antaeus’ series The Zip Code Plays – Los Angeles definitely fits that description. Now, as icing on the cake, we have been nominated for an Ambie…
Selected for the Palm Beach Dramaworks New Year/New Play Festival, The Chisera was performed Saturday, February 5, 2022 at 7:30 pm Eastern (4:30 pm Pacific), directed by Emilie Pascale Beck. The cast: Liza Fernandez, Erin Ruth Walker, Jason Grasl, Romi Dias, Dinah Lenney, Steven Sean Garland, and Leianna Weaver. For…
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 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…
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…
What could be better? Or more natural? Lower Depth Theatre Ensemble really gets it. They understand that supporting the work of writers today ensures that there actually will be a theatre of tomorrow. They want to make sure that stories will not go untold and voices will not go unheard.…
Now available, the tour of the zip codes featured in the Zip Code Plays, season 2, produced by Antaeus Theatre. Now you can go on a little trip to Inglewood 90303, then time travel back to 2013–days before Hollywood Park closed its doors forever in THE VIG. Directed by Bernadette…
Season 2 of Antaeus Theatre’s Zip Code Plays has dropped! Antaeus’ popular series of audio plays has launched six new plays out into the universe, all available for listening–for free. Journey to the far under visited corners of Los Angeles, meet the real people in the diverse neighborhoods, take a…