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Company of Angels presents

SPOKEN MOVEMENT: Our L.A!
A creative showcase by Urban L.A Youth
Developed & Directed by Xavi Moreno

Thursday May 16, 2013 at 8 pm.
FREE!!

OPEN MIC – To follow performance!

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’ “SPOKEN MOVEMENT” Is a culmination performance of Creative Writing, Performance and Spoken Word Workshops with Teaching Artist: Xavi Moreno.

For the past weeks youth met developing their own creative works of Spoken Word, Dance and Theater. Each individual work combines the topics: Violence, Drugs, Equality, Peace, Freedom, Unity, Change, Family, Culture, Language, Social Justice & Love.

This project is part of our promise, to you the patrons of Los Angeles, to work with, support and develop works by Angelino Youth artists whose work address the issues relevant to serving multi-generational and urban communities that celebrate contemporary language and culture. “We produce theater that reflects and responds to the richness, diversity, and complexity that is our city.”

This production is made possible by in part by the City of Los Angeles – Department of Cultural Affairs, the Los Angeles County Arts Commission 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.

BROWN BUFFALO
Written by Carlos Morton
Directed by Guillermo Aviles-Rodriguez
Q&A to follow moderated by Jorge Huerta
…
Oscar Zeta Acosta, a prominent figure in the Chicano Movement, died mysteriously in 1974 at the age of 39 in Mexico. His body was never found. In this one act play the self-proclaimed “Brown Buffalo” is expelled from the Inframundo by the elders for being “too loud and profane.” They urge him to return to the world of the living in a quest to “find his body.” In his search he collides with the people he was closest to in his life, including his therapist, ex-wife Betty, son Marco, and best friend and chief antagonist Hunter Thompson.

Featuring:
Richard Azurdia* as Oscar Zeta Acosta
*Members of Actors’ Equity Association

Sunday April 28 at 1pm
Sugested donation, $5.00

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

Playwright
CARLOS MORTON professional playwriting credits include the San Francisco Mime Troupe, the New York Shakespeare Festival, the Denver Center Theatre, La Compania Nacional de Mexico, the Puerto Rican Traveling Theatre, and the Arizona Theatre Company. He has also written for Columbia Pictures Television and worked as a consultant for Fox Television. In 2011 he received an “Ambassador’s Scholars’ Award” to the University of Malta. He is currently Professor of Theater at UC Santa Barbara.

Director
Guillermo Avilés-Rodríguez is a Company of Angeles Artistic Associate and Assistant Professor of Theater and Cinema at Los Angeles Mission College. He holds a Bachelors of Fine Arts from the University of Utah and a Masters of Fine Arts from UC San Diego. Guillermo holds the distinction of being the first Chicana/o ever to star in a main-stage production at the University of Utah. He is the originator of Meet Me @Metro a site specific performance extravaganza. Some of Guillermo’s directorial and literary highlights include two commissions from Center Theatre Group to write Student Discovery Guides for En Un Sol Amarillo and Culture Clash’s Palestine, New Mexico. His career is built around using theatre as a way of exploring issues of social inequality as well as self-empowerment. He is currently working on Towards a Moving Theatre a book exploring exoteric theater in America.

Moderator
JORGE HUERTA is a leading authority on contemporary Chicana/o and US Latina/o Theatre as well as a professional director. He has published a number of articles, edited three anthologies of plays and written the landmark books: Chicano Theatre: Themes and Forms (Bilingual Press, 1982) and Chicano Drama: Performance, Society, and Myth (Cambridge 2000). Dr. Huerta has also directed in theatres across the country, including the San Diego Repertory, Seattle’s’ Group Theatre, Washington D.C.’s Gala Hispanic Theatre, La Compañía de Teatro de Albuquerque and New York’s Puerto Rican Traveling Theatre. Huerta has lectured and conducted workshops in Chicana/o theatre throughout the U.S. Latin America and Western Europe. In 2007 Huerta was honored by the Association for Theatre in Higher Education for “Lifetime Achievement in Educational Theater.”

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.

L.A Views: pLAylist Online Fundraiser!

L.A Views: pLAylist hits play on some of the best LA Songs from the last 25 years. Come see what songs CoA’s Playwrights Group have chosen to turn into 10 minute plays. Launched in 2008, the L.A. Views series embraces a different City of Angels theme each year. Previous L.A. Views productions explored the concepts of hunger, gentrification and the wanting of community, as well as the famous former residents of Company of Angels Home at The Alexandria Hotel and the 1992 L.A Civil Unrest.

Today we ask for your support to bring this story, YOUR story to the stage. Consider making a tax-deductible contribution to L.A VIEWS: pLAylist and make this production a come to life!

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57 CHEVY
Written & Directed by CRIS FRANCO

Starring:
RIC SALINAS of Culture Clash

A new play from multiple L.A. Emmy Award winning writer Cris Franco performed by Culture Clash’s Ric Salinas.

It’s 1964 and ten-year-old “Junior” is in crisis: his Old World Mexican dad is loading their entire familia into his 1957 Chevy and moving from their familiar East Side neighborhood to a new tract home in the middle-class homogeneous San Fernando Valley. This one-man memory play (written by Cris Franco and performed by Culture Clash’s RIC SALINAS) explores the Baby Boomers’ generation of “double immigrants” who first moved from their homelands to the U.S. barrios in search of opportunity — then moved into the suburbs in search of color TV and the middle-class American dream!

Produced by: Richard Azurdia & Armando Molina
Stage Manager: Adam Gonzalez
Graphic Design: Xavi Moreno

Performances:
ONLY 3 PERFORMANCES!!!
Friday March 22 @ 8pm
Saturday March 23 @ 8pm
Sunday March 24 @ 7pm

Tickets:
General: $10
Purchase your tickets online at www.companyofangels.org
Discounts for Groups of 10 or more contact 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

This production is made possible by in part by Los Angeles County Arts Commission 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.

REACHING AUTONOMY
Written by Penelope Lowder
Directed by Ayana Cahrr

Jones County, Georgia, 1959, at the dawn of the civil rights movement and Mayann Brock’s Thirtieth birthday. She has had enough of being a mistress to a prominent southern white doctor and Klansman, Jackson Mayflower. This night she celebrates her birthday and new life with her young African American boyfriend Robert King. Mayann and Robert’s love rise victorious over Jackson’s mad reality of domination and oppression however its the unexpected encounter with Jackson’s wife, Camilla, that forces them on a road that will challenge their love as dark secrets alter their identity and perceptions of each other. In this Southern gothic tale we will discover how far one woman will go in finding her voice, her independence in Reaching Autonomy.

Featuring:
Lee Sherman
Tamika Simpkins
Paul Mabon
Kierston Morgan

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

Sunday March 31 at 3pm
Sugested donation, $5.00
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PENELOPE LOWDER Ms. Lowder is a 2012 Cosby Screenwriting Fellow and her first short film script, 4Closure, is being produced by Hilldog Productions and Keep It Short Productions which shot in October. Recently, Black Women State of The Union premiered her two short plays, The Follicle Prison War and 15 Minutes at The Skylight Theater in Los Feliz. The Short Playwriting Festival in New York selected “Honest Sam” about an African war criminal that finally receives his comeuppance as a semi finalist in 2009. Her other works that have been performed in Los Angeles and New York are “Pushing Yellow”, “And So We Supped”. In addition to her work in the industry she has performed on the stage in London, New York and Los Angeles. Ms. Lowder is a graduate of the University of Southern California School of Theater and is a past member of the Guy Hanks and Marvin Miller Screenwriting Program, Audrey Skirball Kenis Playwrights Lab, Los Angeles Playwrights Center, Che’Rae Adams Playwright Workshop, Robey Theater Playwrights Lab

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.

“BWSOTU-Taking Flight” theatrical pieces include Sigrid Gilmer’s “Simulacra,” which pokes fun at the representations of Black women in recent feature films; Lisa B. Thompson’s “I Don’t Want to Be,” about the ties of survival that strengthen the mothers of innocent crime victims; Kellie Dantzler’s “Evolutionary” takes a look at a prominent Civil Rights activist mother giving deathbed advise on the need for humor; Tanya Alexander-Henderson’s “Ritual” is a poetic inspirational meditation; and Penelope Lowder’s “The Follicle Prison War,” an hilarious parody about notions of beauty and hair weaves set in the future, and “15 Minutes’” which attempts seeks a solution to Black women’s quest for love.

Written by: Tanya Alexander-Henderson, Kellie Dantzler, Penelope Lowder, Sigrid Gilmer & Lisa B. Thompson
Directors: Ayana Cahrr, Nataki Garrett & Kila Kitu
Stage Manager: Ellen De la Cruz-Sandor
Lighting Design: Justin Huen
Set Design: Justin Huen

Ensemble: Michelle Flowers, Austen Jaye, Kila Kitu*, Lony’e Perrine, Lee Sherman, Tamika Simpkins & Hari Williams

Performances:

Tickets:
General: $20
Seniors: $15 w/I.D
Students: $12 w/I.D
Purchase your tickets online at www.companyofangels.org

For more information please visit www.BWSOTU.org

Company of Angels’ presents

“GO!” LA WEEKLY -
“Director Justin Huen’s staging and direction are beautifully rendered. Performances from the cast of eight are all good, especially the precision and detail of Liang’s somewhat one-note paranoid paternal figure.”

Examiner.com -
“‘Their Eyes Saw Rain,’ directed seamlessly by Justin Huen, opens in a world that from start to end is a touch ethereal, yet contrastingly raw and real.”

“A MUST SEE!” Playwriting in the City -
“The suspense within the play keeps the audience alert and waiting for one of the characters to snap, either in passion or madness. A must see.”

Joe Straw #9 Reviews -
“Their Eyes Saw Rain is a wonderful Twilight Zone science fiction thriller, with wonderful performances, by a very exciting cast.”

THEIR EYES SAW RAIN
By West Liang
Directed by Justin Huen

Bang!
Thunder kicks.
Rain falls for seven months.
Incessant.
In the small, crumbling town of Castle.
There is indolence and apathy.
Three brothers make it their mission to keep from being washed away.

Featuring:
Oscar T. Basulto, James Thomas Gilbert, Pamela Guest*, Samantha Klein, West Liang*,
Gregory Niebel*, Kavin Panmeechao*, Marc Pelina
*Members of Actors’ Equity Association, The Union of Professional Actors and Stage Managers in the United States

Produced by: Richard Azurdia*
Stage Manager: Jennifer Perez
Assistant Stage Manager: Adam Gonzalez
Scenic Design: Gregory A. Crouch
Lighting Design: Justin Huen*
Costume Design: Jackie Gudgel
Sound Design: Howard Ho
Prop Master: Art McDermott
Fight Director: Edgar Landa*
Graphic Design: Xavi Moreno

Performances:
EXTENDED FOR ONLY 6 PERFORMANCES!
January 4 – January 13, 2013
Fridays & Saturdays @ 8pm, Sundays @ 7pm

Friday January 4th @ 8pm
Saturday January 5th @ 8pm
Sunday January 6th @ 7pm
Friday January 11th @ 8pm
Saturday January 12th @ 8pm
Sunday January 13th @ 7pm (MUST CLOSE)

Tickets:
General: $20
Seniors: $15 w/I.D
Students: $12 w/I.D
Purchase your tickets online at www.companyofangels.org
Discounts for Groups of 10 or more contact 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 in part by Los Angeles County Arts Commission 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.