This is the first year since 2005 that my April hasn’t been all about promoting awareness of the nuclear accident at Chernobyl. The history of the project is longer than the piece itself, and links to learn more are at the end. I urge you to read the excerpt below, and for one month full …
Tag Archive: Chernobyl
Jul
25
Closing a Chapter | VFC
Many many thanks for your continuing support! We thank Theatre Asylum, Art|Works Theatre & Studios & Coeurage Theatre Company at Actors Circle Theater for their Best of the Hollywood Fringe Festival offer. With an awareness & charity project, finances and schedules are always an important factor to continue increasing the audience, and I did not …
Jun
15
2 Plays Premiere, San Diego & a Lab
Hi all! A special thank you to everyone for your support through our Voices From Chornobyl 25th Anniversary Events. Thanks to your support we were able to bring the show to three very different groups of audiences, and #3 on this list is greatly due to what we were able to accomplish in April. The …
Feb
28
The Origin of Panic
I’m in the middle of revising an interactive childrens’ script for our awareness project Voices FromChornobyl. This scene always hits home for me: The Origin of Panic. Characters IRINA: mother, a nurse VASILY: father, a scientist KATYA: daughter, 9 years-old This scene takes place a few days after the accident on April 26, 1986. _________________________________________ …
Feb
23
Belarus Free Theatre
I recently made the acquaintance of Bari Hochwald through LAFPI and the LAThtr Meetups. She is a soul sister, creatively and personally, and her work through The Global Theatre Project inspires me every day. Their presentation this Friday of “Being Harold Pinter” supports the Belarus Free Theatre, and Bari took a few moments out of …
Feb
16
Donate so awareness is accessible
Many reading this site know about an ongoing awareness effort of mine, Voices From Chornobyl. This year we want to mount a children’s interactive show at the Hollywood Fringe Festival, create a completely accessible experience with ASL interpreters and visual describers, and reach even more people than ever. “How can you talk about radiation when …
Jun
22
Voices From Chornobyl: Sample play pages
Since 2005, I’ve worked with a dedicated ensemble and collaborators around the world to raise awareness of the 1986 Chornobyl disaster (often spelled Chernobyl). I was invited to be the Key Note Speaker for the Remember Chernobyl Conference in 2008 and Anniversary Readings were held all across Los Angeles in 2009. As part of the …
