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Tag Archive: Hollywood Fringe Festival
Sep
06
The Little Logo That Could
I recently watched a special feature for Monsters Inc. called The Pixar Story. In it, I saw the short film that introduced their logo. Luxo the Lamp hops across the screen and pounds the poor capital “I” until there is a place for him. You know the one. That’s the point: even before I described …
Aug
17
The Working Director Follow-up | Richard Tatum
I recently started an interview series The Working Director, very much modeled after Adam Szymkowicz’s I Interview Playwrights blog. Since the idea is to start conversation around what it means to be a working director, I followed up with the original interviews. We’d love your comments! First up is Richard Tatum, who had two shows …
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
20
More Experiences On The Fringe
Headscarf and the Angry Bitch by Cindy Marie Jenkins · June 20, 2011 I heard this show was fantastic and sold out in earlier Fringes, and I was not disappointed at all. Zehra Fazal delivers a wonderfully conducted bumpy journey through her Muslim upbringing through song and just the right mix of props, lazzi, and …
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 …
Jun
15
On The Fringe | More Reviews
Chela “Chela” is an entrancing story, beautifully performed by Dulce Maria Solis. She masters these people, takes her time without slowing the pace, and embraces all the laughter and horror of what must be a hard story to tell: her mother’s sexual awakening after years of emotional and physical danger. If you enjoy quality storytelling, …
Jun
10
On the Fringe: The Next Best Thing
If you have a Hollywood Fringe Festival account, any audience member is also a participant, and can also create word-of-mouth via submitting your own review after seeing a show. Since I do that anyway, I figure it can only help the shows I see if I cross-post here. Not that I have millions of visitors …
May
30
The Working Director | Dan Berkowitz
I met Dan Berkowitz perhaps the way that many in LA have: through the Director/Dramatist Exchange, a wonderful networking opportunity with the Alliance of Los Angeles Playwrights, or ALAP. Wonderful to hear how he is also an incredible Working Director, and thrilled to profile him here! Not to mention that I am also attracted to …
May
28
The Working Director | Richard Tatum
I had the pleasure of seeing two Richard Tatum productions, The Girl Who Would be King by Jan O’Connor and Group when it premiered in early 2011. After King I decided to see anything and everything he directed. Tatum clearly has a mastery over a play’s story and his own craft. It also always seems …
May
23
The Working Director | Che’Rae Adams
Che’Rae Adams is a good friend, and amazing collaborator as Director & Dramaturg. Remounting Karen Anzoategui’s solo show SER at the Hollywood Fringe Festival interests me and so I invited her to be profiled as a Working Director. You can also read about my personal experience in her workshop at the LA Writer’s Center here, …
May
17
The Working Director | Jacob Smith
I was interested in interviewing Jacob because of the high praise he received from a colleague Gregory Crafts , while in rehearsals and performance at Theatre Unleashed . This theater company and director caught my attention in large part because they always donate a portion of their ticket income to a related cause, much like …
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
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 …
Sep
07
It's Fringe, not The Ring Cycle
Guest Blog by Jacquetta Szathmari I asked Jacquetta about her experience with the Hollywood Fringe Festival last June, bringing her short stories to the L.A. stage. Despite not being able to get arrested in the NYC comedy scene, I decided to debut my one-woman show 3000 miles from home, in a brand new festival, in …
Sep
01
Guest Blogger: Jacquetta Szathmari
I’m starting to invite Guest Bloggers here, people who have a unique perspective on my topics. Here is an introduction to the first Guest Blogger, Jacquetta Szathmari. I first met Jacquetta online while she was promoting her Hollywood Fringe Festival show: That’s Funny, You Didn’t Sound Black on the Phone. With that title alone, I …
Jun
13
Life From a Home Office
It’s been about a month since I really set up my home office. It’s been a little over a month since I quit a steady job in theater (contradiction in terms) to focus on a freelance lifestyle. All I knew was that I wanted to write and I wanted to connect the community to their …
