-May-19, 2013: Staged reading of ¡SOLDADERA! as part of The Playwrights Union Reading Series; Son of Semele Theatre, Los Angeles
Upcoming:
-June 7-20, 2013: "Back Stock" in The Source Festival; Washington DC
¡SOLDADERA! will be read as part of the Playwrights Union Reading Series on Sunday, May 19th at 6pm at Son of Semele Theater. Six other plays written by LA playwrights will be read as well, so check it out!
¡SOLDADERA! by Jami Brandli:
Directed by Sara Wagner
The Mexican Revolution. A teenage girl with face blindness searches for her mother who left to become a revolutionary soldadera (female solider). As she uncovers secrets in the soliders camp, she discovers her own courage.
The Cast:
Christine Avila
Leandro Cano
Laura Hughes
Adriana Sevahn Nichols
Steve Madar
Elia Saldana
I'm a Finalist for the 2013 Playwrights' Center Core Writer Fellowship for my play BLISS (or Emily Post is Dead!).
S.O.E. (formerly The Sinker) receives its World Premiere and it just got extended--YAY!
Darin Anthony directs and S.O.E. will feature Jessica Hanna, Michael Kass and Diana Wyenn. And Cece Tio is co-producer.
Purchase tickets here! Check out the Press Release here!
Performances
March 23–April 22nd, 2013
Saturday & Mondays at 8PM; Sundays at 7PM
Venue
The Speakeasy @ Atwater Village Theater
3269 Casitas Ave, Los Angeles
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My short play, Back Stock, will be produced as part of the 2013 Source Festival line-up this June in Washington DC. Maureen Monterubio directs.
The full schedule of performances will be announced in March. Yay!
The opening scene of my new play, ¡SOLDADERA!, will be streamed live on #NEWPLAY TV, on Thursday, January 31st, at 7:30pm EST/4:30 PST. ¡SOLDADERA! will be presented by Generous Company in Baltimore, Maryland as part of Gumbo, a six-night festival of new works from theater, visual arts, and music blurring the lines between art and neurobiology.
Technicolor Life receives a reading at New York Theatre Workshop on Monday, September 10th at 3pm as part of their Mondays @3 reading series.
Pam Berlin directs.
The cast:
Maxine: Molly Carden
Billie: Ryman Sneed
Susan: Janet Zarish
Franny: Delphi Harrington
Peter/Jake: Skylar Adams
Capt Rye/Mike: Kevin O'Rourke
Lorelei Lee: Geneva Carr
Dorothy Shaw: Kim Gambino
Stage Directions: Sarah Sirota
BLISS (or Emily Post is Dead!) receives a staged reading as part of the Theatricum Botanicum Seedlings Spring Playreadings in Topanga Canyon, CA; Sunday, June 10th at 11am.
Directed by Randee Trabitz
BLISS (or Emily Post is Dead!) is selected as MainStage Reading for the 2012 Great Plains Theatre Conference in Omaha, NE; May 26 to June 2. Kip Fagan directs. Reading takes place on Saturday, June 2nd. Looking forward to being a MainStage Playwright!
Technicolor Life receives staged reading at ROCA; West Nyack, NY. Cast includes Jordan Baker and Kevin Kilner. Pam Berlin directs.
Flooding produced as part of The Car Plays at Off Center Festival/Segerstrom Center for the Arts with Moving Arts; Costa Mesa, CA
Normal produced as part of Milwaukee Repertory’s Rep Lab Short-Play Festival
Looking for Bruce produced as part of Pan Theater’s Anything Can Happen Play Festival; Oakland, CA
Contributing playwright for Loyola Marymount’s Hidden Heroes: Service to the World (collection of one acts); Los Angeles, CA
Flooding produced as part of The Car Plays at RADAR LA with Moving Arts; Los Angeles, CA
Once Removed produced as part of Piper Theater’s Living on the Edge Festival; Brooklyn, NY
Technicolor Life named Finalist for 2011 O’Neill National Playwrights Conference
Technicolor Life receives Roundtable Reading at the Lark Play Development Center
The Sinker nominated for a 2011 Kevin Kline Award for Outstanding New Play; produced by HotCity Theatre; St. Louis
Technicolor Life named Winner of the 2010 John Gassner Memorial Playwriting Award; New England Theatre Conference
Technicolor Life named Winning Play at the 2010 Ashland New Plays Festival; Ashland, OR
Technicolor Life named Finalist for New Dramatists 2010 Princess Grace Playwriting Fellowship, New Dramatists and 2010 Global Age Project New Works Program at The Aurora Theatre
Technicolor Life developed at 2010 WordBRIDGE Playwrights Lab; 2010 Fellow
The Sinker world premieres at HotCity Theatre; St. Louis