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,…
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…
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…
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…
As we get closer and closer to being able to be together–live, in person–for performances, adjustments get made! INVISIBLE (music by Guang Yang, libretto by Paula Cizmar) was rehearsed outdoors in a socially distanced responsible way–in a board member’s back patio. Then dress rehearsal happened in Bruns Amphitheatre–an outdoor venue–and…
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…
West Edge Opera and Earplay present Snapshot, a series of new operas, which will be performed on May 15, 2021 at the Bruns Amphitheatre in the Bay Area. INVISIBLE, music composed by Guang Yang and libretto by Paula Cizmar, will be a part of the program, which also includes THIS…