2010 Highlights
May 17-27, 2010

Steven Leigh Morris (right) interviews actor Kristina Wong after her solo performance at REDCAT.

 

• “Wong Flew over the Cuckoo’s Nest” solo performance by writer, actor, educator and filmmaker Kristina Wong at Roy and Edna Disney/CalArts Theater (pictured left)
  
• Keynote address by Hilton Als, staff writer and theater critic for The New Yorker (watch keynote address here)
  
• Multimedia workshops “Visual Storytelling with Photographs,” “Shooting Video” and “Keep It Short: Basic Video Editing” with Douglas McLennan, founder and editor of artsjournal.com, and Matt Frank, Annenberg’s new media specialist
  
• World premiere of “The Twentieth-Century Way” by Tom Jacobson, directed by Michael Michetti at Boston Court Performing Arts Center
  

 

2009 Highlights
April 14-24, 2009 

• Front row (left to right): Ann Powers, Jeff Weinstein, Barbara Isenberg,  Robert Christgau, Ella Taylor and Steven Leigh Morris.

  Back row (left to right): Dominic Papatola, Sasha Anawalt, Douglas McLennan, Ariel Swartley and David L. Ulin.

  Not pictured: Gordon Davidson, Laura Emerick and Michael Phillips

  Master classes -- one-on-one sessions -- with writing experts. (pictured right)
• "What is Theatre Song?" -- a lecture-demonstration by Jack Viertel, artistic director of New York City Center Encores! and creative director of Jujamcyn Theaters, with live performers, including pianist Brad Ellis of "Glee."
• Keynote address by Steven Leigh Morris, playwright and critic-at-large for L.A. Weekly. (watch keynote address here)
• Workshop on distinguishing what a director brings to a production vs. what actors bring vs. what the playwright brings at A Noise Within. 
• Workshop on the contributions of costume, set and lighting designers at the Mark Taper Forum.
• Group flip camera projects with Douglas McLennan. (video coverage produced by Kirstin Heinle, communication management student '09) 
• World premiere of "Our Mother's Brief Affair" by Richard Greenberg at South Coast Repertory.
• World premiere of the new adaptation of Moliere's play, "Le Bourgeois Gentilhomme" at City Garage.

 
2008 Highlights
February 5-15, 2008 

From left: Christopher Smith, Wendy Rosenfield, Carola Weil, Francis Ma, Beverly Lindsay-Johnson and Elizabeth Bell Haynes

• Carey Perloff, artistic director of American Conservatory Theater (A.C.T.), gave the keynote address, "Theater as an Alternate Space."
  
• Oprah Winfrey's “The Color Purple” at The Ahmanson Theatre
  
• A discussion with top light, costume and set designers of Los Angeles, "Lights, Costumes, Sets -- From the Page to the Stage"
  
• World Premiere of the musical, "Bloody Bloody Andrew Jackson" at the Kirk Douglas Theatre
  
• Three Fellows participated on the panel discussion, "Representations of African Americans in the Arts: The Color Purple," held at USC (pictured left)
  
• Los Angeles Premiere of The Wooster Group's "Hamlet" at the Roy and Edna Disney/CalArts Theater (REDCAT)

 

2007 Highlights
January 30-February 9, 2007

• John Lahr, senior drama critic for The New Yorker, gave the keynote address and taught a writing class (pictured right, click image to watch)
  
• Beckett’s “Krapp’s Last Tape” and Albee’s “The Zoo Story” at Deaf West Theatre
  
• A conversation with Culture Clash, “Taking Identity Politics on the Road”
  
• Nilo Cruz’s translation and adaptation of Pedro Calderon de la Barca’s “Life is a Dream” at South Coast Repertory
  
• Jason Robert Brown’s new musical, “13” at the Mark Taper Forum

 

 

2006 Highlights
January 9-19, 2006

• “A Producer’s Lot: The Economics of Broadway” with Jack Viertel and Gordon Davidson
• Joint production by Robey Theater, Greenway and CTG of “Permanent Collection” at the Kirk Douglas Theater
• World premiere of “The Further Adventures of Hedda Gabler,” written by Jeff Whitty, author of “Avenue Q” at the South Coast Repertory
  

 

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