Silken Veils by Leila Ghaznavi (MFA 10 Acting) at the Hollywood Fringe and Beyond!

It is with great pleasure that I cordially invite you to the Hollywood performance of my original work Silken Veils, appearing at the Art|Works theater June 24^th @ 10:30 pm, June 26^th @ 5pm, and June 27^th @ 2 & 5pm. Please come out to support the first public performance of this interdisciplinary piece that was developed entirely by CalArts performers and designers.

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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.
Written and Directed by David Jette

A Collection of Shiny Objects & Son of Semele Ensemble present the workshop of THE EXILE OF PETIE DELARGE

A Collection of Shiny Objects & Son of Semele Ensemble present the workshop of THE EXILE OF PETIE DELARGE

A New Play by Jennifer Barclay

The Exile of Petie DeLarge is a collaborative experiment in language, performance and music. Telling a story of youthful rebellion, lost innocence and dark moral questions, the text is inspired by three iconic novels, Peter Pan, The Lord of the Flies and A Clockwork Orange. In The Exile of Petie DeLarge, Petie, the expelled leader of a campus coup, and her small gang of renegade students (Borgies and Bessies) violently battle the spirit-kill and corruption of adulthood as personified by their oppressors, the professors (the Bum-Bums). Wendy has fallen to her death in a murder/suicide that Petie and her gang construct an elaborate plot to avenge, while retaking control of their student body (the Rummies). Live sound and recorded music, choreographed movement, and a raw, impulsive performance style using masks and puppeted objects bring this playful yet disturbing text to life.

Deborah Asiimwe’s (MFA Writing for Performance 09) Cooking Oil will be read at the SITI Theatre Company in New York

Deborah Asiimwe’s Cooking Oil will be read at the SITI Theatre Company in New York on May 28th at 8:00pm. Cooking Oil will then prepare for a performance run at the National Theater of Uganda in October 2010, directed by Emily Mendelsohn, designed by Shannon Scrofano, produced by Miranda Wright, and with video and documentation by Qadriyyah Shamsid-Deen. The play will be performed by professional actors in Kampala, and will be produced in collaboration with the Nyoonyozi Cultural Troupe.

Piedra de Sol (Sunstone) at Villa Theater Lab (Getty Museum Programs)

Piedra de Sol (Sunstone)

Date: Friday–Sunday, May 14–16, 2010

Time: 8:00 p.m. on Friday and Saturday, 3:00 p.m. on Saturday and Sunday

Admission: Tickets $7. Call (310) 440-7300 or use the “Get Tickets” button below.

Virgina Grise (MFA Writing for Performance 09) invites you to Love Your Body Panza Party

Love Your Body Panza Party

May 15th at 7pm

Join me on May 15th at 7pm for a special one night only Panza Party at Breath of Fire Theatre, celebrating the newly released Panza Monologues DVD.

hollywood fringe – once more, with feeling

Once More, With Feeling

produced by laura youngkin, not your average bears, 60 minutes, ages 18+

“Chloe’s a drag queen. She’s got somebody tied up on her sofa. Also, that boy and that girl keep breakin’ up and yellin’ about it. Cue the music.”

CASTING CALL – THE CAR SHOW

About the show: DARON drives his underage love interest GENEVA to his home. To fill the void of the car ride, they begin a conversation—a playful type of interrogation. They confess, evade, confirm, and question each other. They talk about what their lives would be like if they were different ages. Meanwhile, the world begins to melt apart as they consider committing their act of taboo. DARON and GENEVA identities become scrambled, split, and confused to include DARON’s DOUBLE and GENEVA’s DOUBLE—who reflect a mixture of their fears, fantasies, and their expectation of Hollywood ending. It is an exploration of how communication is manipulated/distorted by its modes of transmission—including technology, space, age, status, taboo, the internal/external divide.

The Closest Farthest Away in Los Angeles

For all of you in Los Angeles Who’ve been wondering what the heck we were doing in Cuba & Miami over the past few months here’s your chance to find out. This will be more of a panel discussion and we will be showing some of the work but not the full production, YET. Mostly it will be fielding questions about the process, the collaboration, the travel, the show itself and plans for the future. So, please come out to support and see what the HECK we’ve been up to. Feel free to email with any questions, and I hope to see you there.

screening of the award-winning movie Mississippi Damned on Monday, May 10, 2010, at 7:30 p.m

The schools of Theater and Film/Video will be hosting a screening of the award-winning movie Mississippi Damned on Monday, May 10, 2010, at 7:30 p.m. in the Bijou Theater. The screening will be followed by a Q&A moderated by Fran Bennett, Voice Faculty, with Writer/Director Tina Mabry and Actress Simbi Khali Williams, Acting alum.