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Nightingale, by Lynn Redgrave "When we die, what mark do we leave? What is left of us to tell the world that once we lived and breathed and laughed and wept?...Not long ago, I went looking for Beanie’s grave and to my dismay found that her name had been washed away by the acid rain. The gravestone was blank. So I’ve given her a new name, Mildred. And I’ve dreamed up a life. A memorial. For no one dies who is remembered. " -- Lynn Redgrave, January 2006
Mark Taper Forum, CTG ,
Los Angeles
Directed by Joseph Hardy
Orson's Shadow An ingenious tale of two Hollywood giants – Orson Welles and Laurence Olivier. The time is 1960; the place is a London theatre. Legendary critic Kenneth Tynan has made a startling proposal: Welles should direct Olivier and the young Joan Plowright in Rhinoceros, Ionesco’s absurdist masterpiece. But it is the rehearsal process that brims with absurdity as titanic personalities, including Vivien Leigh, wrestle the muse. Based on an actual event, Orson’s Shadow is a witty and incisive depiction of the drama of theatre.
Pasadena Playhouse,
Pasadena
Directed by Damaso Rodrieguiz, Associate Artisic Director of Pasadena Playhouse
Cricket was named a "Young Designer to Watch" by Live Design Magazine. See that article here.
Come Back Little Sheba When Lola and Doc Delaney rent a room to Marie, a beautiful and vivacious 18-year-old college student full of youthful sexuality, their home suddenly is infused with the ghosts of their own failings, both personal and professional. As the precarious balance of their life together is upset, their tiny domestic tragedy becomes a gripping drama. Whether their marriage can survive is beautifully revealed as the emotions and resilient hopes of Lola and Doc come to light.
Kirk Douglas Theater, Center Theater Group
Culver City, CA
Directed by Michael Pressman
Some Girl(s) Seattle. Chicago. Boston. Los Angeles. Not battlegrounds that you may recognize from history but watch the painful laughter flow when a writer returns to the scene of four crimes of the heart. Before getting married, 'Guy' decides to make amends with some girls he left behind. Or does he? Some Girl(s) is a searing, funny portrait of the artist as a young cad.
Geffen Playhouse,
Los Angeles
Directed by Neil LaBute
Trying The boss is an aging legend, cantankerous but charismatic. The new assistant is young and vulnerable, but full of grit. And then the fun begins. Based on the playwright's own real-life experience, the play is a hopeful and humorous tale of friendship amidst life's most inevitable adventure -- growing old.
The Colony Theater,
Burbank
Directed by Cameron Watson
Nominated for Sound Design, Ovation Awards, 2007
The Bacchae
Celebration Theatre's THE BACCHAE is a radical re-imagining of Euripides' tragedy incorporating original music and dance. Whereas in the original play, the women of Thebes are driven mad and made into all-powerful, voraciously sexual beings, enraptured by the God Dionysus, in this version it is the men who are entranced. In representing the Bacchae as gorgeous, leather-clad, shirtless "West Hollywood" club kids, the play explores modern images of gay sexuality, examining the consequences of a marginalization of what it means to be gay outside of a sexual context, using the mythology of the Bacchae to represent this marginalization as stemming from a societal and governmental denial of the homosexual as a whole person.
Celebration Theater Company,
West Hollywood
Directed by Michael Matthews, Artistic Director of the Celebration
Nominated for Sound Design, Ovation Awards, 2007
Runner up for Best Sound Design, 2007, Ticketholder Awards
Walkin Thru The Fire From John Difusco, creator of the groundbreaking, critically acclaimed Vietnam play TRACERS comes yet another inspiring play. Walk'n Thru The Fire is a memoir and spiritual journey through life,love and loss;from a small New England town, to Vietnam, to California.From the 1950's to the present. It is John Difusco's personal Odyssey told through a mixture of poetry,storytelling,humor,music and movement and brought to life by a talented ensemble of five.
Hayworth Theater,
Los Angeles
Directed by Che Rae Adams
Zanna Don'tHeartsville, U.S.A. -- where gay is good, chess is cooler than football, and the Army has a strict “Don’t ask, don’t tell” policy for heterosexuals. Here at Heartsville High, Zanna, the school’s magical matchmaker is busy keeping everyone in town happily, homosexually paired up … until all hell breaks loose when quarterback Steve falls in love with overachiever Kate. Can a straight boy and a straight girl find happiness in this topsy-turvy world? Buy a ticket and find out!
West Coast Ensemble,
Silverlake
Directed by Nick Degruccio
A Chorus LineA Full Production using all of the original Broadway Chorography
Negri Learning Center, Norris Center for the Performing Arts
Rolling Hills Estates, CA
Directed by Robert Marra
Impending Rupture of the Belly How far would YOU go to defend your family? AN IMPENDING RUPTURE OF THE BELLY concerns Clay Stilts' desire to fortify his house in preparation for both a new baby and the apocalypse he's convinced is just around the corner. Clay worries about so many things, nuclear terrorism, avian bird flu, killer earthquakes, riots, small pox crop dusters flying over Dodger Stadium. His obsessions are sidetracked when a slowly escalating battle with a neighbor who refuses to curb his dog explodes in an impulsive act of violence. In one reckless moment, Clay's world spins out of control, becoming a microcosm for a global struggle against threats to our security, both real and imagined.
Furious Theater Company,
Pasadena
Directed by Damaso Rodriguez,
Artistic Director of Furious Theater Company
Stage Struck, By Simon Grey STAGE STRUCK opens in the living room of one Robert Simon. Formerly a first rate stage manager in a provincial repertory company, he now he keeps house for his West End actress wife while amusing himself with various sexual adventures. He is a thoroughly happy man until the clumsy intervention of a psychiatrist destroys his happiness and his marriage. He plans a hideous revenge on his wife and the psychiatrist - a revenge which allows him to rediscover all his old stage secrets!
The Colony Theater,
Burbank
Directed by Rick Sparks,
Iphigenia Crash Land Falls on the Neon Shell that was Once Her Heart.
By Caridad Svich
IPHIGENIA hurls one of Greek tragedy’s most compelling sagas into a modern netherworld of mass-media overload, sex, drugs and mind-thumping trance music.
Son of Semele, Silverlake
Directed by Matthew McCray, Artistic Director of SOSE
Nominated for Sound Design and Production Design, LA Weekly Awards, 2006
I Have Before Me a Remarkable Document Given to Me By A Young Lady From Rwanda
A touching and heartfelt journey shared by a young survivor of the Rwanda massacre and the burned-out English poet who befriends her. Profoundly moving, surprisingly humorous, ultimately uplifting, this is the must-see play of the season, making its West Coast Premiere.
The Colony Theater Company,
Burbank
Directed by David Rose
Back of the Throat
One man's homeland security is another's alienation effect in Furious Theatre Company's production of Yussef El Guindi's effective, troubling chamber piece about an Arab American writer harassed by government agents. — Charlotte Stoudt June 30, 2006
Furious Theater Company,
Pasadena
Directed by Damaso Rodriguez, Artistic Director of Furious
Honorable Mention for Sound Design, Garland Awards, 2006
High School Musical
Disney's Hit Musical, at the Norris Center for the Performing Arts. Two casts, one ages 8-12 and the second cast ranged from 13 to 20 years old.
Negri Learning Center,
Norris Center for the Performing Arts
Rolling Hills Estates, CA
Directed by Jon Engstrom
The Wizard Of Oz
Just as we all have come to know and love it.
Milken Community High School, Feb. 2007
Los Angeles, CA
Directed by Robert Menna
Also with The Negri Learning Center,
Norris Center for the Performing Arts,
Rolling Hills Estates, CA in July 2007
Directed by Jon Engstrom
King Cat Calico Finally Flies Free This twisted, dark comedy focuses on Heidi K. Hendrickson and her needy plight for recognition. She has an obsession, a compulsion really - she has 150 cats in her 1,100-square-foot apartment, including 60 dead ones in the Frigidaire. Heidi has an especially intimate relationship with the alpha cat, one King Cat Calico, who keeps trying to escape this tuna filled, Stench-ridden prison, to no avail.
Son of Semele,
Silverlake
Directed by Edgar Landa
Inconcievable
This curious comedy by Tim and Dan Furlong might be called Trials and Tribulations in the Life of Sperm, as they struggle to fight their perilous way to fertilization. It combines farcical treatment with a fairy-tale plot, and a dollop of romantic comedy, equating biological imperatives with romantic love
The Globe Theater,
Hollywood
Directed by Rick Sparks
A Vast Wreck
Richard Caliban's press release describes his play A Vast Wreck as "Peer Gynt crashing into Our Town". Lacking the poetic grandeur of the first and the humanity of the second, the result is what Thomas Hobbes described as "nasty, brutish and short." With make-up and costumes that combine commedia del arte and early 20th century German decadence, director Dara Weinberg's acrobatic blocking keeps the violence symbolic and lightens its dark sadism. The story follows the trail of Peer Gynt, here called Peter Gibbs (Mark McClain Wilson) from a childhood of physical abuse by a monster mother (Gabby Sanalitro) and everyone else he meets.
Theatre of NOTE,
Hollywood
Directed by Dara Weinberg
Tuesdays with Morrie
Tuesdays witih Morrie follows a successful sports journalist who is driven solely by his career, until he learns that a former college professor is battling Lou Gehrig's disease. The student and teacher are reunited, and what begins as a quick visit turns into a weekly pilgrimage and an unforgettable and astonishing lesson on the meaning of life.
The Rubicon Theater,
Ventura
Directed by Jenny Sullivan
Floyd Collins
Floyd Collins is an extraordinary musical based on the true story of a young Appalachian man in 1925 Kentucky. While he is trapped in a cave 150 feet below the surface, the rescue effort explodes into America's first full-blown media circus. Hysteria descends on the mouth of the cave as reporters from across the country manipulate the nation into a frenzy of anticipation, despair and hope.
West Coast Ensemble Theater Company,
Hollywood
Directed by Richard Israel
Won the Los Angeles Drama Critics Award for Sound Design, 2005
Clutter: The True Story of the Collier Brothers Who Never Threw Anything Out
The incredible story of Homer and Langley Collyer, brothers who became known as the world’s most famous packrats when they were found dead in their New York mansion surrounded by 150 tons of junk, drew rave reviews from the critics.
The Colony Theater,
Burbank
Directed by Rick Sparks
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