Get your tickets NOW for the upcoming “Says You! LIVE: Uncut, Unglued, and Unabridged!” online events! The NPR comedy-quiz show is jumping into the virtual realm — since you can’t come to our live shows, our live shows will come to you! Recorded live on the specific dates for our ticketed virtual audience, then edited for our regular NPR radio broadcasts.
The first one is May 6, so get your tickets now!
Join me for a free Salon event featuring my one-act radio play “90024: Westwood – “ALL INFORMATION HEREIN IS CLASSIFIED” commissioned by Antaeus Theatre Company as part of their inaugural Zip Code Plays series!
On April 17 at 7:00 pm Pacific time (USA), there will be a FREE live panel discussion (over Zoom) co-presented by Antaeus Theatre Company & The Westwood Village Improvement Association.
We’ll begin the event by listening to the 30-minute play, which will be followed by a discussion with me and Director Carolyn Ratteray, Artistic Director Kitty Swink, and Executive Director of the Westwood Village Improvement Association, Andrew Thomas. Together, we’ll delve into the creative process behind the play, as we learn more about the local landscape and community in Westwood.
Please register HERE for this FREE webinar today !
And if you can’t make it, please join the 40,000 others who have taken a few moments to listen HERE to the radio play — it’s also FREE! Here’s a synopsis: Fresh from participating in her first street protests, 80-year old Eleanor Pender McAdams seems an unlikely subject for an FBI investigation — but who really has the upper hand? This “official file” of recordings and interviews reveals the complexities of standing up for something bigger than yourself in the modern world.
UPDATE: OVER 20,000 have listened to the podcasts so far, in over 5 continents!
The Los Angeles Times called the series “Delightful… exceptional… quick and fun and surprising!”
Featured in LAist’s “Best Online Post-Election Diversions!”
Commissioned by Antaeus Theatre Company in August and recorded remotely in September, the 30-minute radio play “90024: Westwood — All Information Herein is Classified” is now available for streaming at Antaeus.org or wherever you get your podcasts.
Directed by Carolyn Ratteray and starring Dawn Didawick, Bo Foxworth, and Catia Ojeda, the play is collection of digital audio FBI files on Eleanor Pender McPherson, an alleged participant in protests in and around UCLA. The two FBI agents assigned to her surveillance learn never to underestimate an 80 year old woman.
I’m so grateful to Antaeus for selecting me to create this piece, to Jeff Gardner for mastering the audio production, and to the director and cast for bringing it to life. I hope you all take a few minutes to listen, and enjoy!
Proud to be a part of a unique project called “SALEM: POST-MORTEM” which is a poetic new play by Peter Gray, directed by Michael Alvarez. It’s the inaugural project for a new theater company in New York, and if starting a theater company during a pandemic isn’t an act of courage and love, I don’t know what is!
In “SALEM: POST-MORTEM” the witches of Salem awaken once more--this time in the afterlife-- to seek resolution of their unfinished stories and confront the fear which left their town in tatters. When the veneer of Puritan decorum falls away, old voices scramble to regain their status and new voices awaken power they never touched on earth.
It was an international cast of 16 actors, and we all acted as our own film crew, with Michael and Peter guiding us remotely. Such a joy to create during the pandemic, and work with these two amazing creative spirits.
It will be free to watch and can be accessed at www.the-muse-collective.com with donations going to raise money for the Audre Lorde Project.
The Muse Collective was created by Michael Alvarez in 2020 as an umbrella for collaboration and theatrical investigation. Their philosophy is to create art in an attempt to see beyond the veil of waking life, excavating the invisible worlds of our mind, heart, soul, and shared humanity.
Here’s the Broadway World press release with more info, and here’s where this project was featured in Time Out New York’s “Best Live Theater to Watch Online” list!
