Following tremendous success with their first season of Zip Code Plays, Antaeus Theatre Company presents a second season, coming in Spring 2021. The Zip Code Plays are radio plays that take you on a tour of Los Angeles–and all you have to do is sit back and listen. I’m delighted…
Coming in the New Year of 2021–the Year of the Ox–is our brand new short opera, FIRECRACKERS, commissioned by White Snake Opera in Boston. FIRECRACKERS (composer Guang Yang, librettist Paula Cizmar) will be presented as a workshop performance in January, with a full World Premiere production in December 2021. Details…
In May, West Edge Opera presents SNAPSHOTS, a performance of scenes and excerpts from brand new operas–and we’re happy to announce that a scene from I N V I S I B LE, music by Guang Yang, libretto by Paula Cizmar, will be presented along with the works of such…
UNDERGROUND was first presented on Thursday, July 2, 2020 with Jason Delane Lee playing James, Jeanne Sakata playing Anna, and Aaron Lyons playing Bo. UNDERGROUND was shown on the Pandemic Play Re-Play from July 3 – July 10.
DELIVERY premiered on June 30, 2020 with Mia Ellis playing Reyna, Bonnie Bailey-Reed playing RoseEllen, and Veralyn Jones playing The Voice. Available on the Pandemic Plays RePlay from July 3 – July 10.
Details will be coming soon re: how to sign up to attend the Pandemic Plays event, produced by Lower Depth Theatre Ensemble. We recorded my two short pieces, DELIVERY and UNDERGROUND, last week with two stellar casts directed by Gregg Daniel. Just a few recordings to go and then the…
LA Theatre Works’ production of SEVEN was in the middle of a 27-city tour of the U.S. when the pandemic closed down theatre venues across the country. But LATW thought it was important for people to have access to our play during the time of quarantine–and so they are making…
More news soon, but I’m thrilled to announce that I was one of the playwrights selected to create a short play for Lower Depth Theatre Ensemble’s Pandemic Plays project. The founders and artistic directors of LDTE are a multitalented, dedicated crew with a beautiful mission: “We are a social change…
I love the message from Playwrights Arena: ‘L.A. Playwrights will be heard again soon.’ Of course, the question is: When? And maybe more interestingly, how? The fact of the matter is that theatre artists haven’t stopped working. Playwrights are still out there, plugging away, hitting deadlines that only barely seem…
Playwrights are noted for their unique voices on the page, but singing? Well, that’s another matter entirely. So when artistic director Jon Lawrence Rivera asked a few of those of us who had been produced at Playwrights Arena in LA to sing a song on Zoom, the response was….uh….gulp….uh….really, are…
