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Join with Special Guests, Actors/Activists
James Cromwell & Mike Farrell
to Celebrate our Los Angeles – Florence Connection and
the Power of Art
DECEMBER 11TH | 7pm
ACT 1 Bilingual Presentation: ‘A Stubborn Woman’
ACT 2 Panel: the impact of violence reprisal against journalists
ACT 3 Reception & Action with Amnesty International
at the Los Angeles Theatre Center in historical downtown LA | Theatre 1 | 514 S Spring St, LA 90013
Event begins at 7:00pm
TICKETS begin at $15* for students,
$25 for balcony seating
$75+ for orchestra seating
INFO at TheGlobalTheatreProject.com or call 818.823.0891
ACT 1 celebrates the ongoing relationship between The Global Theatre Project and Florence, Italy with the US premiere of ‘A Stubborn Woman, a theatrical memorandum on Anna Politkovskaya’ by Florentine playwright Stefano Massini. Presented bilingually in English and Italian with corresponding supertitles. Directed by Bari Hochwald. Cast includes: Carolina Gamini (who arrives from Florence in support of the Global Theatre Project), Henri Lubatti, Judith Scarpone, Lisa Ciricione, Alexandra Goodman, Kate Maher, Steve Mazurek, Jason Thomas and Randolph Thompson. Bios can be found on our site.
ACT 2 is a panel discussion which explores the impact imposed on civil rights and developing and existing democracies when journalists suffer violent reprisal for reporting truth in conflict zones. And why we in the states should care about this issue. Panel members include journalists Sandy Tolan, Allison Hope Weiner and Amnesty Regional Field Director Kalaya’an Mendoza. Bios below and on our site.
ACT 3 offers the choice of a cocktail with the event participants in the theatre or engaging in an human rights action in the lobby with members of Amnesty International and special guests, actors/activists James Cromwell and Mike Farrell.
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MISSION and PURPOSE
The Global Theatre Project develops and supports opportunities for creative engagement and collaboration that will unite American theatre artists and students with their international counterparts positively affecting the communities in which they are working. The Global Theatre Project seeks to promote cross-cultural alliances and improve the perception of Americans abroad by placing two valuable segments of our citizenry into productive action: our professional theatre artists and our youth.
THE PRESENT AND THE FUTURE
Puppets as part of the Creative Campus Global Initiative last summer which paired Italian artists and Univ of TX students. Photo by Luca Fontanella.
After five years of developmental work in Florence, Italy, the time has come to now expand that work to a broader audience through the establishment of The Global Theatre Project. By basing the organization in the United States and continuing to build on the work in Florence, The Global Theatre Project, a US 501(c)(3) nonprofit corporation, seeks to create its permanent international home and laboratory in Florence in order to launch and establish the format of additional projects which will allow it to engage additional communities around the world. The Global Theatre Project recognizes and addresses the importance of providing opportunities for American artists and students to engage internationally in a positive and collaborative way and to explore the full potential of live theatre and events to promote cross-cultural understanding. In doing so, the work done abroad will be brought back to the US and shared in events which bring active attention to the importance of recognizing our global citizenry and the impact that the US has overseas.
JAMES CROMWELL, born in Los Angeles but raised in Manhattan and educated at Middlebury College and Carnegie Tech, James Cromwell – the son of noted film director John Cromwell – studied acting at Carnegie-Mellon. He went into the theater (like both his parents) doing everything from Shakespeare to experimental plays. He started doing TV in 1974, gaining some notice in a recurring role as Archie Bunker’s buddy Stretch Cunningham in “All in the Family” (1968), made his film debut in 1976, and goes back to the stage periodically. Some of his more noted film roles have been in Revenge of the Nerds (1984) and the surprise hit about a charming pig, Babe (1995). He garnered some of the best reviews of his career – many of which said he should have received an Oscar – for his role as a corrupt, conniving police captain in L.A. Confidential (1997).
The presentation of STEFANO MASSINI’s play is the first step toward both fulfilling this intent and celebrating the
relationship The Global Theatre Project values with the city of Florence. The unique aspects of The Global Theatre Project were born in the city of the Renaissance and the relationship between this growing organization and the city has and will afford the advancement of exciting and relevant cultural initiatives in ways that allows for a continual interaction between Florence and the city of Los Angeles.Stefano Massini: playwright. In 2007 he received the National Prize of the Critic as a Young Artist the highest Italian award for playwriting, the Premio Vittorio In the last two years is a finalist in the Ubu Prize for “The Cage” Finalist Prizes also for the Olympic Theatre in Vicenza ETI. The libraries in all his plays and the volume of sales is imposed in Meanwhile, the texts are translated and published abroad, from Czech Republic I have Kammerspiele of Monaco of Bavaria in do not re-education” dedicated to the memory of Anna Politkovskaya Italy with success. The text “The smell of deafening white” was produced and directed by the author Metastasio Theatre highest in Italian theaters in 2007/2008, as well as “Trial of God” directed by Sergio Fantoni and intense interpretation of Ottavia Piccolo, show that in 2008 the crown his success with over 180 performances throughout Italy. Trilogy still on the cage produced by the Women’s Theatre, which was accomplished in 2008. ” Memoirs of the Executioner ” tells the strange meeting between the elder Charles Sanson Executioner (the King of the Gallows, beheadings with 2700 …) and a well known young French writer, the text flows like a thriller, a ghostly backdrop of Paris by night nell’innevato winter 1829. In the season 2004 / 5 the text has been set up successfully with a scene painted by renowned artist Lele Luzzati. “The smell of deafening white” text is the winner of Pier Vittorio Tondelli 2005, produced in Italy in autumn 2006 , directed by Stephen Massini, for the Teatro Metastasio / Stable of Tuscany, in Prato.
President and artistic director Ms. BARI HOCHWALD began her career as an actress in regional theatres throughout the United States. On television she has been seen as a Guest Star on major US television productions. In 2005 she successfully introduced the concept of a resident English language international theatre organization to Florence, Italy when she cofounded Florence International Theatre Company. As Producing Artistic Director at FITC for four seasons she developed performances, projects and initiatives which focused on bringing together the various and separated communities of the city. To this end, she developed the Creative Campus program which integrated US students with the residents of Florence through creative projects; introduced the participation of US students in Tuscany’s Festival della Creatività; instituted FITC’s participation in the European Union’s Day of Memory for the Holocaust (for which she received a developmental grant from Rothschild Europe Foundation); instituted ‘V-Day Firenze’ in 2008 which brought residents, U.S. students and professional artists together in bilingual events to raise money and awareness to violence against women and created the English Spettacolare! programming which uses theatre to ‘activate’ English for children and adults. In addition Ms. Hochwald directed many of the productions for FITC focusing on reflecting the internationality of Florence by working with local and visiting artists. Her work as a playwright has been developed at the GeVa theatre, Syracuse Stage and The MeT Theatre with full scale productions in Los Angeles, Syracuse, Florence and Edinburgh, Scotland where her solo play ‘Net Worth’ premiered to rave reviews at the 2005 Fringe Festival. As President and Artistic Director of The Global Theatre Project, Ms. Hochwald intends to incorporate the experiences, observations and insights of her career as artist, producer, educator and arts advocate to focus on the innate value of international collaboration, mentorship and community engagement through theatre productions, multidisciplinary creative projects and live events.
CAST
CAROLINA GAMINI is a British trained actress who has been working in film and theatre since 2001. She studied
Duo-Acting for six years with the London Guildhall School of Music and Drama and later moved to Florence, where she now lives, and continued to study both at film school and with individual Italian and American acting coaches until 2006. Her Italian-Argentine background and British schooling allow her to act in Spanish as well as English.
Among other lead roles Carolina played an Italian Juliet in Romeo e Giuliettain 2005, she was Agnes in 2007 in an English production of Agnes of God, in 2009 she combined “Commedia dell’Arte” with Stanislavski and her three languages to play all the female roles in a bilingual production of The Comedy of Errors. Recently she played Gus in a female production of The Dumb Waiterand last year debuted on her own on stage as Leslie in Her Big Chance, Talking Heads.
Her performance in the short film “Carlos y Anna” won her Best Lead Actress in the Cinema Libero Film Festival in Rome in 2009. In 2005 together with five other actors, she co-founded La Compagnia Del Giallo, a successful, interactive and improvisation-based theatre company, with which she continues to perform regularly all over Italy.
HENRI LUBATTI is a member of the Antaeus theater company in Los Angeles.His theater credits include work at the Mark Taper Forum, SouthCoast Repertory Theater, The Old Globe in San Diego, the Seattle Repertory Theater, and the Intiman Theater in Seattle. Henri starred in the Showtime drama series “Sleeper Cell.” He was last seen guest starring on the shows: “Grimm” and “Supernatural.”
JUDITH SCARPONE: Credits include THEATRE (BROADWAY): The Twilight of the Golds (BOOTH THEATRE). Over
CHORUS
LISA CIRINCIONE is thrilled to be working with The Global Theatre Project again after having been part of several inaugural productions back in Florence, Italy. Theatre credits include: The Jersey Shore House, A Dog in Space and Juliet inDoublets and Hose (a loose adaptation of Romeo and Juliet) directed by April Webster, all at The Blank Theatre. Also seen in the world premiere of Loyalties at Pacific Resident Theatre (108 performances including 2 sold-out extensions). With the Grand Guignolers in A Grand Guignol Kabarett and A Grand Guignol Children’s Show* not for children. FOR PACIFIC STAGES: Kenneth Lonergan’s Lobby Hero and Lee Blessing’s Great Falls with Alan Blumenfeld. EDINBURGH FRINGE FESTIVAL: Johnny Guitar and the award winning Star Wars Trilogy in Thirty Minutes. Neil Simon’s I Ought to be in Pictures at the Long Beach Playhouse, Douglas Carter Beane’s The Country Club, Lorca’s Blood Wedding, Anita in West Side Story and Adelaide in Guys and Dolls. Lisa is a graduate of the B.F.A acting program at U.S.C. and a proud member of Actors Equity. She currently studies with Diana Castle at The Imagined Life. Lisa is also the founder and president of English Language Universal, a L.A. based language institute, which teaches English to artists and diplomats from around the globe. www.englishlanguageuniversal.com. Tanti Grazie a Bari e inboca a lupo.
ALEXANDRA GOODMAN: Celebration, Cousin Bette, Arcadia, The After Dinner Joke,Camino Real (Antaeus);Arcadia (Sierra Madre Playhouse); Uncle Vanya, Rhinoceros, Freud Scenario (Wright Theatre), Antigone, Midsummer Night’s Dream, Steel Magnolias (City Theatre). Films include “The Selling,” “Stik Men,” “Brain Dead” and “Fear Ever After,” and thehilarious webseries “Lien On Me.” She is a proud member of the A2 Ensemble, Antaeus’ young company.
KATE MAHER has a BFA from University of Southern California. While there, she was seen in The Last Days of Judas Iscariot, Mansfield Park, Playing with Fire, Barbarians and The Crucible. She is also a proud member of Antaeus’ A2 Ensemble and New American Theatre Company (formerly known as Circus Theatricals). Kate is honored to be working with The Global Theatre Project on such a worthy cause.
STEVE MAZUREK Currently can be seen in Hollywood in Show At Barre’s concert series For The Record: Tarantino,
Baz Luhrmann, Coen Brothers, and John Hughes, Also with Show At Barre: Rocky Horror (Brad), Hip Hipsteret,and Stoned Soul Picnic (The Music of Laura Nyro). Steve has travelled around North America as a featured solo artist with the Cincinnati Pops, Vancouver Symphony, Philadelphia Orchestra, and Southwest Florida Symphony Orchestra. LA THEATER: Les Miserables (Hollywood Bowl), Great Expectations (Odyssey Theater), REGIONAL: Yeast Nation (PCLO), The Irish Crossing (Pittsburgh City Theater) and As You Like It (Unseam’d Shakespeare). TV debut this summer in HawthoRNe on TNT. Steve is a graduate of The Interlochen Arts Academy and received his BFA in Acting from Carnegie Mellon University.
JASON THOMAS is a graduate of the Acting Program at the University of Northern Colorado. Jason is an A2 Ensemble member at Antaeus. Theater credits include Cato in Julius Caesar at Theatricum Botanicum, Henry Furley in Easy Virtue at Antaeus, Starveling in A Midsummer Night’s Dream at Hermosa Beach Playhouse, Brad in A Devil Inside, Renfield in Dracula, Agamemnon in Apollo and Cassandra, Benvolio in Romeo and Juliet, Grumio in Taming of the Shrew, Boulot in Paradise Hotel, among others. Television credits include “Cold Case,” “12 Corozones,” and “Fed Up.” Jason can spin flat items extremely well and make balloon animals. Thank you for supporting the theater.
RANDOLPH THOMPSON: Favorite productions include Shortlived 2.0 (PianoFight L.A.), Monkey Madness(L.A. Theatre Ensemble), Dancing vs. The Rat Experiment(LaMama, E.T.C.), Schriebstück (U.S. & Canadian Premieres),Roberto Zucco (The Ohio Theater), Love’s Labour’s Lost(Baryshnikov Arts Center), and Twelfth Night (The Wild Project). Graduate of Tisch School of the Arts, NYU.
PANELISTS
KALAYA’AN MENDOZA has been an activist, organizer and mobilizer for various issues ranging from Queer rights to Tibetan independence to anti-racist organizing and beyond. He is currently serving as Amnesty International-USA’s Western Regional Field Organizer,coordinating with human rights activists in Southern California, Colorado, Idaho and Wyoming. Prior to working at Amnesty International-USA he was the Grassroots Coordinator for Students for a Free Tibet International during the Beijing 2008 Olympics campaign. In his role as Grassroots Coordinator Kalaya’an launched and coordinated numerous social network-based campaigns globally, utilizing social media platforms ranging from Facebook to Twitter to Youtube.
SANDY TOLAN is a journalist, teacher, and documentary radio producer. He is associate professor at the Annenberg
School for Communication and Journalism at USC. He has reported in more than 30 countries, especially in the Middle East, Latin America, the Balkans and Eastern Europe. He has produced dozens of documentaries for National Public Radio and Public Radio International, and has written for more than 40 newspapers and magazines, including the New York Times, the Los Angeles Times, the Christian Science Monitor, USA Today, and The Nation. Much of his focus has been on land, water, natural resources, ethnic conflict and indigenous affairs. He has received more than 25 national and international honors, including two from the Overseas Press Club, the DuPont-Columbia Silver Baton, three Robert F. Kennedy awards for reporting on the disadvantaged, a Harry Chapin World Hunger Year award, and a United Nations Gold Medal award. He was a 1993 Nieman Fellow at Harvard University and an I.F. Stone Fellow at the Graduate School of Journalism at the University of California at Berkeley, where he taught international reporting. In 2006 his students won the prestigious George Polk Award for their public radio series on the early signs of climate change – the first time students have received a Polk Award. Sandy is the author of The Lemon Tree: An Arab, A Jew, and the Heart of the Middle East (Bloomsbury, 2006), based on his award-winning documentary for NPR’s Fresh Air about a Palestinian man, an Israeli woman, and their common bond: a stone home in the town of Ramla, between Jerusalem and Tel Aviv. The book was Booklist’s “Editor’s Choice” for best adult non-fiction book of the year. It was a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award, and received the 2006 Christopher Award. His first book, Me and Hank (Free Press, 2000), which the New York Times called “a solid hit,” is an exploration of heroes and race relations in America through the experience of baseball slugger Hank Aaron.
ALLISON HOPE WEINER was a Century City entertainment litigator before she began writing about Hollywood as a journalist. A graduate of Columbia University and the University of Southern California Law Center, she joined the legendary firm of Wyman, Bautzer — where she represented entertainers and corporate media clients. After leaving Wyman and spending four years at another West Side law firm, Ms. Weiner began writing freelance articles about the business of entertainment for Los Angeles Magazine, George, Entertainment Weekly, TV Guide and Buzz. Hired byEntertainment Weekly in 2001, she covered the industry for five years, writing cover stories and features, and reporting many articles for the magazine’s must-read annual Power List. Ms. Weiner landed exclusives such as an interview with James Gandolfini during his contentious contract dispute with HBO over “The Sopranos”; the only print interview with Paul Reubens after his plea deal for possession of child pornography; and access to the personal files of Bonnie Lee Bakeley, the actor Robert Blake’s slain wife, for a piece about how Bakeley’s obsession with celebrities led to her death. Weiner left Entertainment Weekly as a senior writer in 2005 to report for The New York Times, beginning with a Styles section profile of the legendary Hollywood lawyer Bert Fields, a subject of the Pellicano investigation. For the past few years she has written about the investigation into Anthony Pellicano, landed an exclusive interview with Mel Gibson and delved behind the scenes in Hollywood to write revealing stories about the drug use anduntimely death of the model-turned-bounty hunter Domino Harvey and the criminal investigation into the turbulent world of the Los Angeles paparazzi.
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