Climate Change Theatre Action continues, with plays geared to the theme The Time Is Now being presented in Kenya. Esther Kamba, in collaboration with Goethe-Institut, Nairobi, Kenya, is producing a reading of CCTA plays including Appealing by Paula Cizmar on October 9 at 6 pm. The event is part of…
The timeless story, a single person, seemingly powerless, facing an unjust law. Will she stand up for what is right? Will anyone join her? This contemporary update of Sophocles’ play puts its namesake Antigone front and center, rather than Creon (as in the original). Ismene becomes Esme, and reminds us…
What a wonderful group. It’s not an exaggeration to say that over 100 people have come together over the three years we’ve been developing this project–designers, researchers, writers, video makers, interactive creators. Here are a few of them at our first rehearsal! Cast members Claudia Elmore, Xol Gonzalez, David Huynh,…
Announcing the launch of the brand new website for Sacrifice Zone: Los Angeles! Now there’s a place to view all the research and info and work that has been going on since 2020. Plus news of the immersive installation & performance that opens January 13. Lots to check out, and…
Our new short opera, FIRECRACKERS, premiered at White Snake Opera in Boston as part of their Let’s Celebrate festival on December 10–and what a fun show it was! Here are some early views of the production.
Sacrifice Zone: Los Angeles (SZLA) is an Arts in Action project created and curated by Michael Bodie and Paula Cizmar to look at the many ways our environmental policies–or lack of them–fail the people of certain neighborhoods. Neighborhoods where industrial pollution is rampant. Neighborhoods where health risks are a matter…
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…