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…
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…
A scene from THE NIGHT FLIGHT OF MINERVA’S OWL, music composed by Guang Yang, libretto by Paula Cizmar, is being presented on Friday April 30 by Thornton School of Music at USC. Performed online with animations and puppetry, OWL tells the story of three young women in different parts of…
Sacrifice Zone: Los Angeles (SZ:LA) is now launched. This ongoing, evolving project about environmental justice issues was presented in its first-phase form in March 2021. Produced online with a hybrid of live performances, video, and animation, this multimedia, documentary theatre project has many moving parts–and they each got a test…
I’m so honored to be a part of this! From The Arctic Cycle and the 2021 Climate Change Theatre Action: ANNOUNCING OUR CCTA 2021 PLAYWRIGHTS – We asked them to write short plays inspired by the Green New Deal and its global equivalents. We encouraged them to show us what their dream future…
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…
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…