Company of Angels
& The Alexandria Workshops
present

THE OTHER SIDE OF THE FRAME

Created and performed by residents of the Alexandria Hotel and the downtown Los Angeles community.
The Other Side of the Frame, is the culminating production of this season’s workshops and features
passionate monologues, poetry and song on topics that range from homelessness, AIDS, celebrity media, street activism and more.

The Alexandria Workshops is a Company of Angels Department of Education community outreach program.

Directed by Lui Sanchez with Instructor Pat Cochran.
Produced by Joyce Liu.

with
Gregory D. Alexander
Martha Breedlove
Djallon Charles
Stephanie Clark
Vincent Clark
Adam Dowell
Rodney Frazier
Francisco Frias
Victoria Gallardo
Berta Hyken
Damon Pablo
Brynn Sillyman
Carmen Vega
De Anna Maria Weakly
Virgil Wilson

December 9, 10, 11, & 16, 17, 18
Friday & Saturday at 8 pm
Sunday at 7pm
Tickets: $10.00
(Pay what you can on Sunday night)

Company of Angels at The Alexandria
501 S. Spring Street, 3rd Floor
Los Angeles, CA 90013
213-489-3703
info@companyofangels.org
www.companyofangels.org

This activity is funded in part by the California Arts Council, a state agency,
as well as the National Endowment for the Arts, a federal agency.

A Conversation on Spring – A Happy Hour Fundraising Salon
Honoring Teddy Cruz and Moderated by Rubén Martínez

Company of Angels presents the first of a new series of conversations with artists, community leaders and others whose innovative ideas and work inspire our art and have the potential to bring about positive change in Los Angeles. The first conversation will be with acclaimed architect Teddy Cruz and moderated by award-winning journalist and author Ruben Martinez. Mr. Cruz will discuss the conflict between architecture and everyday life, especially in low-income and immigrant communities, and how he responds to that conflict by designing sustainable communities from the bottom up to create a more organic space that promotes community.

Monday, October 24, 2011
5:30 to 8:00 P.M

at

MALDEF
(Mexican American Legal Defense Fund and Education Fund)
National Headquarters – Edison Room
634 S. Spring Street
Los Angeles, CA 90014

Pay-What-You-Can – RSVP at info@companyofangels.org
or To make a donation with the official ticket price of $35 individual or $50 couple visit www.companyofangels.org

Teddy Cruz was born in Guatemala City. He obtained a Master in Design Studies at Harvard University in 1997 and established his research-based architecture practice in San Diego, California in 2000. He has been recognized internationally for his urban research of the Tijuana-San Diego border, and in collaboration with community-based nonprofit organizations, such as Casa Familiar, for his work on housing and its relationship to an urban policy more inclusive of social and cultural programs for the city. In 1991 he received the prestigious Rome Prize in Architecture and in 2005 he was the first recipient of the James Stirling Memorial Lecture On The City Prize, by the Canadian Center of Architecture and the London School of Economics. In 2008 he was selected to represent the US in the Venice Architecture Biennial and in 2011 he was a recipient of the Ford Foundation Visionaries Award, the Global Award for Sustainable Architecture and was named one of the 50 Most Influential Designers in America by Fast Company Magazine. Teddy Cruz is currently an associate professor in public culture and urbanism in the Visual Arts Department at University of California, San Diego, and the co-founder of the Center for Urban Ecologies.

Rubén Martínez is an award-winning journalist, author and musician. His essays, opinions and reportage have appeared in the New York Times, Washington Post, Los Angeles Times, San Jose Mercury News, Salon, Village Voice, The Nation, Spin, Sojourners, and Mother Jones, among others. As a political commentator, he has appeared on ABC’s Nightline and Politically Incorrect, PBS’s Frontline, NPR’s All Things Considered, and on CNN. He is an associate editor for Pacific News Service and is a former news editor of the L.A. Weekly. He has received a Lanna Foundation fellowship, a Loeb Fellowship from Harvard University’s Graduate School of Design, a Freedorm of Information Award from the ACLU, a Greater Press Club of Los Angeles Award of Excellence, and and Emmy Award for hosting PBS-affiliate KCET-TV’s Life & Times. As a musician, Martinez has been featured on albums by Concrete Blonde, Los Illegals, and the Roches, and he is currently working on his solo album

About Company of Angels Founded in 1959 as an artist’s cooperative by actors Richard Chamberlain, Leonard Nimoy, Vic Morrow and legendary entertainment attorney Bertram Fields, Company of Angels (CoA) recently celebrated it’s 52nd Anniversary, making it the oldest non-profit professional theater in Los Angeles. Today the Company is dedicated to depicting stories relevant to a diverse Los Angeles audience. The Company develops emerging artists and re-envisions theater to entertain new audiences by producing new work for first-run productions and fosters staged readings and workshops on a regular basis. The Company aims to share and give voice to the many stories that exist in their surrounding communities. Since it’s founding in 1959, the Company has earned a reputation for strong productions of classic American theatre as well as presenting new works. In doing so, the Company has received almost every Los Angeles theatrical award, including the LA Drama Critics’ Circle Award, the Drama-Logue Award, the LA Weekly Award, and the LA Stage Ovation Award. Company of Angels is a proud constituent member of Theater Communications Group (TCG) and the Los Angeles Stage Alliance (LASA). For more information call 213-489-3703 or visit us at www.companyofangels.org

La Colectiva Chorizo y Maguey present with Company of Angels
The World Premiere of

blu
by Virginia Grise
Directed by Laurie Carlos

“blu is technically expert. … Grise’s choral effects are thrilling and unexpected. But, just as important, the play uses a heady mix of Latino and musical influences to cast oblique light on people you don’t usually come across on the English speaking stage.”
-David Hare, playwright, Yale Drama Award Judge

Set in Barrio, USA, Virginia Grise’s blu traces the explosive after-effects of prison and hunger, desire and war. Told in a heightened poetic language of street talk, the play follows a queer Chicana/o family as they try to envision an earth and sky without police and their helicopters. Soledad and her woman Hailstorm raise Blu, Gemini and Lunatico while their father Eme serves a three-strike sentence. Blu seeks a better way, Hailstorm fights for beauty amidst all the hurt and ugly, Eme yearns for his lost love and fam, Lunatico is true to tradition and Gemini dreams dreams for everyone while Soledad tries to hold it all together without having her bruised heart touched or broken, one more time. blu is a tattooed offering to Los Angeles audiences, the gods and the ancestors that might be listening.

Featuring:
Diana DeLaCruz*
Romi Dias*
Luis Galindo*
Phillip Garcia
Alexandra Jimenez
Xavi Moreno
*Member of Actors’ Equity Association

Produced by Ricardo A. Bracho & Xavi Moreno
Scenic Design: Rafa Esparza
Sound Design: Ivan Robles
Lighting Design: Jose Lopez
Stage & Production Manager: Lupe Lucero
Assistant Stage Manager: Irlanda Pulido
“blu” artwork by: Ana Salinas
Graphic Design & Typography: Xavi Moreno

Performances:
Thursday, November 17 at 8pm
Friday, November 18 at 8pm // SOLD-OUT
Saturday, November 19 at 8pm
Sunday, November 20 at 7pm

Tickets:
Thursdays $10
General $20
Seniors $15
Students $12

Purchase your tickets at www.companyofangels.org

[Tickets on sale September 1]

Group Discounts available
Contact: Xavi Moreno: xmoreno@companyofangels.org

Company of Angels at The Alexandria
501 S.Spring St., 3rd Floor.
Downtown Los Angeles, CA90013
213.489.3703 • info@companyofangels.org
WWW.COMPANYOFANGELS.ORG

This production is made possible by an ARC grant from the Center for Cultural Innovation, funding from the NALAC Fund for the Arts, National Association of Latino Arts and Culture, the Ford Foundation, Southwest Airlines and is supported (in part) by The Cultural Collaborative, City of San Antonio Office of Cultural Affairs and the generous contributions of Company of Angels supporters and contributors.

Company of Angels would like to thank The Amerland Group, LLC, and Buxbaum Group for their patronage to CoA at The Alexandria.

Company of Angels
presents

SUN SISTERS
A new play by Vasanti Saxena
Directed by Lui Sanchez

A daughter’s homecoming. A mother’s secrets. SUN SISTERS explores the clash between unspoken desires and cultural traditions as one woman’s illness forces her to examine her life’s choices.

Starring:
Jennifer Chang*
Robert Hardin
Peter Kwong*
Jully Lee
Andrea Lwin
Momo Yashima*
Elaine Kao*

Understudies:
Joyce Liu-Countryman
Kurt Yamamoto
Stephanie Silver*

*Members of Actors Equity Association

Produced by Joyce Liu-Countryman, Daniel Munoz & Amelia Worfolk
Stage Manager: Jennifer Perez
Sound Design: Howard Ho
Set Design: Luis Delgado
Lighting Design: Sarah John Templeton
Costume Design by Karla Contreras
Graphic Design: Xavi Moreno

July 27 – August 28, 2011
Wednesday, July 27 at 8pm / Preview
Thursday, July 28 at 8pm / Preview
Friday, July 29 at 8pm / Opening Night
Saturday, July 30 at 8pm
Sunday, July 31 at 7pm / PAY-WHAT-YOU-CAN NIGHT!!!
Friday, August 5 at 8pm
Saturday, August 6 at 8pm
Sunday, August 7 at 7pm
Friday, August 12 at 8pm
Saturday, August 13 at 8pm
Sunday, August 14 at 7pm
Friday, August 19 at 8pm
Saturday, August 20 at 8pm
Sunday, August 21 at 7pm
Friday, August 26 at 8pm
Saturday, August 27 at 8pm
Sunday, August 28 at 7pm
Friday, September 2 at 8pm / *Extension
Saturday, September 3 at 8pm / *Extension Closing Night

SPECIAL EVENTS:

Come early on Sunday August 21, 2011 and Saturday August 27,2011 to sign up for a worthy cause.
Asians for Miracle Marrow Matches will be holding a drive before the show starting at 7 pm.  5 minutes can help save a life.
For more information about A3M got to www.a3mHOPE.org

Tickets:
OPENING NIGHT – July 29, $25 all seats, includes post-show reception with cast & crew
General: $20
Seniors: $15
Students: $12

Purchase your tickets at
WWW.COMPANYOFANGELS.ORG

Group Discounts available
Contact: Xavi Moreno: xmoreno@companyofangels.org

Company of Angels at The Alexandria
501 S.Spring St., 3rd Floor. Downtown Los Angeles, CA 90013
213.489.3703 • info@companyofangels.org
WWW.COMPANYOFANGELS.ORG

CoA would like to thank The Amerland Group, LLC, and Buxbaum Group for their patronage to CoA at The Alexandria

This production is made possible in part by a grant from The Durfee Foundation ARC (Artists’ Resource for Completion) and the generous contributions of Company of Angels supporters and contributors.

LITTLE GIRLS: Imitations by me / Artwork by Ricky Sencion
A collection of prints that pays tribute to the artists that have inspired Ricky Sencion’s work. They are: Picasso, Modigliani, Dali, Angel Botello, Marlene Dumas, Frida Khalo, Keith Haring, Jerome Caja, and David LaChapelle.

$50 Print

Ricky Sencion
I am a first generation Mexican American and self-taught artist. I started my series of Little Girls in the summer of 1998 after moving back to Los Angeles. The idea stems from a drawing I completed 27 years ago while in high school. My Little Girls are a reflection of myself; they are simple, colorful, silly, and each has a little twist to her. I use mostly acrylic and pencil on 4’x6’ canvas.

Why not a “little boy?”
With a little boy I feel restricted to what I can imagine. With a little girl, I feel freedom, joy, and endless sense of possibility. It’s like playing with dolls and dressing them up

Sit down, shut up and LAUGH!
ArtWalk Comedy Night at the Company of Angels

Come out for two different comedy shows this THURSDAY, JULY 14th at the Company of Angels on the 3rd Floor of the Alexandria on 5th and S. Spring Streets!

8:00 p.m.
Cold Tofu
Name a place you take a date. “A Strip club.” What?
Bring your random suggestions and shout outs as this award-winning improv troupe takes them to a whole ‘notha level.
http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=207332099313326

10:00 p.m.
18 Mighty Mountain Warriors
Are Asians funny? Damn straight they are! This three-man gang keeps it lively with their irreverent and fast-moving comedy sketches. Small dick jokes? Whatevs–that’s old school.
http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=215305945180074

$15 per show, $25 for both, cash or checks at the door. Reserve seats by emailing sunsisters.coa@gmail.com with name and number in party.

We’ve only got 50 seats in the house, so don’t get left out in the cold. Procrastination’s a bitch!

Proceeds benefit the next CoA mainstage production of SUN SISTERS (Fridays and Saturdays at 8 p.m., Sundays at 7 p.m. July 29 through August 30).

BORDERING ON LOVE

A new play by Evangeline Ordaz
Directed by Armando Molina

“The shows energy, humor and story match up perfectly with an in your face “Sex in the City” attitude mixed in with some “To Wong Foo: Thank For Everything Julie Newmar” and “Under the Same Moon.” - LA EASTSIDE, El Random Hero

Evangeline Ordaz Walks the Borders Between Art and Community - LA STAGE TIMES, Cindy Marie Jenkins

Drag and immigrant experience collide onstage - USC Daily Trojan, Louis Lucero II

Beauty can be a drag… or a path to citizenship. But, is there room for love in this pageant world? Bordering on Love, is new play by Evangeline Ordaz that combines two of our most provocative questions that confront our nation – the definition of marriage and immigration. It’s a platonic love-story dramady with a drag queen chorus.

Starring:
Christian R. Gibbs
Kamil Haque
Rudy Marquez
Anne McCarthy*
TJ O’Connell*
Kenneth Sears
Silvia Tovar
Jeff Vinall

*MEMBERS OF ACTORS’ EQUITY ASSOCIATION

Produced by Richard Azurdia & Xavi Moreno
Assistant Director: John Miyasaki
Second Assistant Director: Isabelle Ortega
Stage Manager: Ivan Noel Acosta
Set Design: Jessica Wiebel
Sound Design: Cricket S. Myers
Lighting Design: Bosco Flanagan
Costume Design: Isabelle Ortega
Assistant Costume Design: Marc Martinez
Choreographer: Don Allen
Graphic Design: Xavi Moreno
Drag Consultant: Don Allen

June 2 – July 10, 2011

Thursday, June 2 at 8pm / Preview (ONLY $10)
Friday, June 3 at 8pm / Preview (ONLY $10)
Saturday, June 4 at 8pm / Opening Night Gala
Sunday, June 5 at 7pm
Friday, June 10 at 8pm
Saturday, June 11 at 8pm / Talk-Back with the artists after the show
Sunday, June 12 at 7pm
Saturday, June 18 at 8pm / Talk-Back with the artists after the show
Sunday, June 18 at 2pm
Sunday, June 19 at 7pm
Friday, June 24 at 8pm
Saturday, June 25 at 8pm
Sunday, June 26 at 7pm
Thursday, June 30 at 8pm
Friday, July 1 at 8pm [SOLD-OUT]
Saturday, July 2 at 8pm
Friday, July 8 at 8pm /
Saturday, July 9 at 8pm
Sunday, July 10 at 8pm / Closing Night

SPECIAL EVENTS:

Every Sunday is Union Sunday: $5 off for any Union Member with ID
Saturday, June 11 – Post-Show Discussion with Playwright, Director & Cast
Saturday, June 18 – Post-Show Discussion with Playwright, Director & Cast

Tickets:
Previews: ALL $10
Opening Night – June 4, $30 all seats, includes pre & post-show reception with cast & crew
General: $20
Seniors: $15
Students: $12

Group Discounts available

Contact: Xavi Moreno: xmoreno@companyofangels.org

Company of Angels at The Alexandria
501 S.Spring St., 3rd Floor. Downtown Los Angeles, CA 90013
213.489.3703 • info@companyofangels.org
WWW.COMPANYOFANGELS.ORG

CoA would like to thank The Amerland Group, LLC, and Buxbaum Group for their patronage to CoA inside The Black Box at The Alexandria.

Bordering On Love is sponsored in part by
The James Irvine Foundation.

THE MEXICAN AS TOLD BY US MEXICANS
A retelling of Jack London’s The Mexican
Written and Directed by Ricardo A. Bracho and Virginia Grise

The Mexican as Told By Us Mexicans is an adaptation/theatrical retelling of an overlooked short story by the important literary figure Jack London as it is also a collaborative attempt to join avant-garde theatre and cinematic techniques to the historical problematics arising from annexation and conquest, revolution and industrialization, gender and border politics. The adaptation by Ricardo A. Bracho and Virginia Grise, as Californian and Texan Mexicans, immigrant/indigenous chican@s, queer theater artists seeks to advance an aesthetic that pulls the populist carpa, most known in the US through the work of Teatro Campesino and other Chicano teatro collectives, towards a reckoning with Brechtian epic theater, gender queer performance art practices and the legacy of experimentation found in the work of Maria Irene Fornes and Adrienne Kennedy.

SYNOPSIS
To that end, The Mexican as Told By Us Mexicans retains much of London’s narrative, originally written while reporting on the Mexican Revolution from the border town of El Paso, Texas. Based in part on the life of the boxer Joe Rivers who donated the earnings from his matches in the US to the cause of the Mexican Revolution – The Mexican as Told By Us Mexicans follows a boxer, renamed here Mexico. The character Mexico joins a group of committed revolutionists who doubt his commitment to the revolutionary cause. He proves his worth and faith, first by donating much-needed monies to the revolution and later, while on a mission to communicate information to comrades in California, kills an adversary to the cause. He then expresses his desire to fight for the Mexican Revolution in a boxing ring in California in a highly publicized and racialized bout with a legendary white boxer.

The latter half of the short story, and subsequently, our play takes up the negotiations towards the big match and the story’s great set piece – a fierce battle told from multiple perspectives: Mexico, his opponent, their respective coaches and figures in the crowd. Significantly, Mexico while in the ring recalls the horrific death of his parents at anti-revolutionary hands as his own hands are locked in a battle in which he eventually triumphs, allowing in London’s words, for “the revolution to go on.”

Featuring:
Richard Azurdia
Horacio Galaviz
John Kaisner
Ephraim Lopez
Gilbert Molina
Xavi Moreno
Amalia Ortiz
Liam Springthorpe
Kendra Ware
Carolyn Zeller

Produced by Richard Azurdia & Xavi Moreno as part of
“to READ and STAGE in L.A” Reading Series.

Wednesday May 18 at 8 pm.
Pay-What-You-Can

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Company of Angels at The Alexandria
501 S. Spring Street., 3rd Floor, LA, CA 90013
Office: 213.489.3703 | Email: info@companyofangels.org
www.companyofangels.org

Company of Angels’ “to READ and STAGE in L.A” Reading Series is our promise, to you the patrons of Los Angeles, to work with, support and develop new plays by emerging and established Angelino artists whose work address the issues relevant to serving multi-generational and urban communities that celebrate contemporary language and culture. Join us every third Wednesday of the Month as we “produce theater that reflects and responds to the richness, diversity, and complexity that is our city.”

CoA would like to thank The Amerland Group, LLC, and Buxbaum Group for their patronage to Company of Angels at The Alexandria.