Current and Alumni News for Feb 28th

CURRENT NEWS

MFA3 Producer, Jackie Banks-Mahlum, is returning to The Will Geer Theatricum Botanicum as their producer for their upcoming Summer repertory season.

D&P Administrative Assistant, Barb Edwards was recently accepted to Oregon State University. Don’t worry, she won’t be leaving us; Barb plans to take her courses through their distance learning programs.

Alum Sayda Trujillo (BFA ‘00 Acting) presents “I was Raised Mexican”

“I Was Raised Mexican” investigates the experience of acquired identity. A Guatemalan teenager finds herself identified by her community as Mexican. Visually, it is a peeling of layers, each offering a possible answer to What is Mexican? Asking, What do you see when you see me? What do we carry with us? What is impossible to leave behind? Through movement, song, absurdist and poetic text, “I Was Raised Mexican” pays close attention to what the immigrant carries with him/her and what this translates in their adopted new home/country.

Upcoming Screenings of Derek Magyar’s (BFA 03 Acting) feature film debut Flying Lessons

I’m pleased to announce the Los Angeles and New York distributor screenings of Derek Magyar’s “Flying Lessons,” this year’s honored opening night film at the Santa Barbara Film Festival. One of Variety’s 2010 list of ‘10 Actors to Watch,’ Maggie Grace (Lost, Taken, upcoming Knight and Day) stars as a woman who’s forced to return home to face old demons and her estranged mother (Christine Lahti). Cast also includes Hal Holbrook and Cary Elwes. Worldwide rights are available.

Russell Means Lecture, March 4th from 5 to 6 p.m. CalArts Gallery D301

CalArts 24700 Mc Bean Parkway, Valencia, CA, Gallery D301

Once described as “the most famous American Indian since Sitting Bull and Crazy Horse” by the LA Times, and pop-rendered by Warhol himself, Means has been a part of public demonstrations, activist interventions and performances, and continues to be a controversial figure in American politics, art, and culture. Means is also a printmaker and painter, most famously known for his lithograph series titled “Indian Killers” (2004). In an act of “political performance” part satire-part political statement, Means ran for office as V.P. to Larry Flynt in 1984. In Hollywood, his was the voice of Chief Powhatan in Disney’s Pocahontas (1995) and he acted in Natural Born Killers (1994) and Last of the Mohicans (1992). Most recently, he starred in “Palestine, New Mexico,” a work by Richard Montoya of Culture Clash which premiered in LA last month.

The Coffeehouse Theater is now accepting submissions for Phase Four

The Coffeehouse Theater is now accepting submissions for Phase Four, which will run from April 1 through April 24. All submissions are due no later than Friday, March 5 at 5 p.m.

Special CalArts Invitation to Theatre of Note’s Titus Andronicus, Discount Tix

Special CalArts Invitation to Theatre of Note’s

Titus Andronicus

By William Shakespeare

Directed by Thomas Craig Elliott

Special Talk Back with Harry Lennix

As seen in the films Titus, The Matrix Revolution, Ray, Barber Shop 2 and Stomp the Yard

Brimmer St. Theatre Co. is casting for an upcoming evening-length farce

CASTING NOTICE

Brimmer St. Theatre Co. is casting for an upcoming evening-length farce to be rehearsed April – May and performed June – July.

Set in German-occupied Paris, Leiris/Picasso twists the true story of an underground meeting between Picasso and the French existentialists into a slamming-doors sex farce. Enduring hunger, the Nazis, and each other, the greatest thinkers of the 20th century risk their lives to find that the master has written a play so unwatchable that even they cannot stomach the pretension.

PQ 2011 submission entry deadline nears

SUBMISSION INFORMATION for FROM THE EDGE

SELECTION PROCESS:
Only work that has been created since May of 2006 will be considered for the exhibition.

Virginia Grise’s blu wins the 2010 Yale Drama Award

2010 Yale Drama Series Prize for Emerging Playwrights

Read the announcement in the New York Times.

Read the announcement in Playbill.

Read the announcement in Theatre Mania.

From Virginia: I’m proud to announce my play blu has been named the winner of the 2010 Yale Drama Series competition by playwright David Hare. blu was selected from over 960 submissions. As part of the award, the play will be published by Yale University Press, have a public reading at the Yale Repertory Theatre in September and I will also receive a $10,000 award issued by theDavid C. Horn Foundation.

Audition Invitation from the Creators of American Idol

We would like to thank you for expressing interest in auditioning for If I Can Dream.

From Simon Fuller, the creator of American Idol, we are proud to present If I Can Dream. If you think you have what it takes to make your Hollywood dream come true, audition now at http://www.myspace.com/ificandream

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