El Centro Del Sur: Tu Hogar Digital Program

2023

APCH Board Of Directors Junta Directiva de APCH Gareth Schweitzer Barbara Glazer Susan Napier Hamed Tavajohi Maryellen Zarakas Dawn Campbell Sister Patricia Connor, RSHM Michael Converse Louise Hamagami Sharon Hauptman Bob Israel

Board Chair | Presidente Vice Chair | Vicepresidenta Vice Chair | Vicepresidenta Treasurer | Tesorero Secretary | Secretaria

Jacqueline Jimenez Michelle Raimo Kouyate Tom McCabe Edgar Morales Melissa Palazzo-Hart Kathryn Price Converse Adam Rosenblatt

Howard Sherwood Stephanie Sherwood Ethan Smith Vera Stewart Marshall Wax Susan Wolf

El Centro del Sur is made possible in part through the generous support of El Centro del Sur es posible en parte gracias al generoso apoyo de

The Cast of the First ACT@APCH Production No Saco Nada de La Escuela (Dec 2019)

Welcome to A Place Called Home!

Bienvenido a A Place Called Home!

We are so excited to be sharing our space with you! APCH is a youth development Center in South Central located on the historical Central Avenue corridor. Our founder, Debrah Constance, saw the dire need for a safe space, specifically for youth who had no other place to go but into the danger of its streets after the 1992 Uprising. Central Avenue historically was the heart of the African-American community with a vibrant Jazz and Rhythm & Blues music scene. Although the surrounding neighborhood has gone through many changes, A Place Called Home continues to understand how the arts build community, bringing people together regardless of subject, and leave all feeling uplifted and motivated to continue to build together, regardless of background.

This is A Place Called Home’s 30th anniversary and we celebrate this milestone with our community here in South Central, but also with all of Los Angeles. Currently we serve hundreds of families annually, and have sent over 500 youth to college. We have six programmatic departments with eleven programs specifically dedicated to the arts, higher education, vocational assistance, academic assistance, and wellness. Our Counseling Department is at the heart of all our programs, which provides a safe space with a trauma informed lens, serving our youth, their families, and staff as it relates to youth development. Our Bridge Theater at A Place Called Home, the most recent addition to our campus, serves as a space to share the beauty, enrichment, and success of our community. We hope that South Central will become another hub in the city for expressing its richness, its voice, and its desire to be seen and heard.

We hope you enjoy your time at the Bridge Theater at a Place Called Home. It is here for all of us, and we hope you will come back to visit another production or enroll any youth 8–17 in our day to day programming.

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Welcome to A Place Called Home!

Bienvenido a A Place Called Home!

¡Estamos muy emocionados de compartir nuestro espacio contigo! APCH es un centro de desarrollo juvenil en South Central ubicado en el corredor histórico de Central Avenue. Nuestra fundadora, Debrah Constance, vio la necesidad extrema de tener un espacio seguro, específicamente para los jóvenes que no tenían otro lugar adonde ir excepto a las calles peligrosas después del Levantamiento de 1992. Central Avenue fue históricamente el corazón de la comunidad afroamericana con una escena vibrante de música de Jazz y Rhythm & Blues. Aunque la urbanización ha pasado por muchos cambios, A Place Called Home continúa entendiendo cómo las artes construyen una comunidad, uniendo a las personas sin importar el tema y haciendo que todos se sientan animados y motivados para continuar construyendo juntos, sin importar su origen. Este es el aniversario de 30 años de A Place called home y celebramos este hito con nuestra comunidad aquí en South Central, pero también con todo Los Ángeles. Nosotros servimos a cientos de familias anualmente y hemos enviado a más de 500 jóvenes a la universidad. Contamos con seis departamentos programáticos con once programas específicamente dedicados a las artes, la educación superior, la asistencia vocacional, la asistencia académica y el bienestar. Nuestro Departamento de Consejería está en el corazón de todos nuestros programas, lo que brinda un espacio seguro con una perspectiva informada sobre el trauma, sirviendo a nuestros jóvenes, sus familias y al personal en lo que se refiere al desarrollo juvenil. Nuestro Bridge Theatre en A Place Called Home, la incorporación más reciente a nuestro campus, sirve como un espacio para compartir la belleza, el enriquecimiento y el éxito de nuestra comunidad. Esperamos que South Central se convierta en otro centro de la ciudad para expresar su riqueza, su voz y su deseo de ser visto y escuchado. Esperamos que disfrute su tiempo en el Bridge Theatre en A Place Called Home. El teatro está aquí para todos nosotros y esperamos que regresen a visitar otras producciones o que inscriban a cualquier joven de 8 a 17 años en nuestra programación diaria.

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Festival Schedule of Events

Calendario de eventos del festival Thursday, September 14th 8:00 PM

Company of Angels presents Mariposa

Friday, September 15th 8:00 PM

Skylight Theatre Company presents La Egoista

Saturday, September 16th 10:30 AM 10:30 AM 12:00 PM 1:00 PM 2:30 PM 3:00 PM 8:00 PM

Block Party on 29th Street begins Mariachi Jalisco APCH Dance Company #1 APCH Dance Company #2 Block Party on 29th Street ends ACT@APCH presents Bodalands (Un)Documents presented by Jesus I. Valles

Sunday, September 17th 12:00 PM 3:00 PM 8:00 PM

The Sideway Society presents Spread (Reading) About…Productions presents L.A. Real Pop Up Playhouse, The Burbank Human Relations Commission, Tracey Rooney and Wilson Cruz present The Diary of Anne Frank (Latinx)

Festival Schedule of Events

Calendario de eventos del festival Jueves 14 de Septiembre 8:00 PM

Company of Angels presenta Mariposa

Viernes 15 de Septiembre 8:00 PM

Skylight Theatre Company presenta La Egoista

Sábado 16 de Septiembre 10:30 AM 10:30 AM 12:00 PM 1:00 PM 2:30 PM 3:00 PM 8:00 PM

Comienza la fiesta del barrio en la calle 29 Mariachi Jalisco Compañía de Baile APCH #1 Compañía de Baile APCH #2 Finaliza la fiesta del barrio en la calle 29 ACT@APCH presenta Bodalands (Un)Documents presentado por Jesús I. Valles

Domingo 17 De Septiembre 12:00 PM 3:00 PM 8:00 PM

The Sideway Society presenta Spread (Reading) About…Productions presenta L.A. Real Pop Up Playhouse, The Burbank Human Relations Commission, Tracey Rooney y Wilson Cruz presenta The Diary of Anne Frank (Latinx)

El Centro del Sur Staff

Personal del El Centro del Sur Norayma Cabot Jewel Delegall Katie Alheim Ofelia Moncera Efrain Schunior Colton Bassett Roy De Oliveira Maggie Stillman C. Raul Espinosa Xiomara Moncada Ariana Stultz Frankie Hernandez Michelle Aguilar Al Crawford Philippa Crowne Marcee Dela Cruz Shairi Dixon Iovani Dominguez Tatiana Easley Elizabeth Flores Jocelyn Garcia Rafael Gonzalez Jarod Granados Sal Gutierrez Aguirre Danny Hernandez Dominique Jackson-Patton Myrna Quezada Gilbert Radillo Ann Stacy Bernyce Talley Rosleyn Thompson Michael Vallejos Lauren Walker Belinda Wells Dagmar T Hayden S Jose Z Rocio D

Chief Executive Officer Chief Program Officer Chief Development OFficer Chief Administrative Officer El Centro del Sur Festival Director El Centro del Sur Technical Director El Centro del Sur Production Manager Communications & Marketing For A Place Called Home El Centro del Sur Marketing Consultant El Centro del Sur Block Party Event Coordinator El Centro del Sur Graphic Designer Theatre Hombre Consultant Prep Chef / Kitchen Assistant Security, Safety & Hospitality Coordinator Director of Development Senior Manager, Program Operations Security, Safety & Hospitality Assistant Technology Director Sous Chef / Kitchen Assistant Assistant Manager, Nutrition & Urban Agriculture Dance Program Manager Senior Maintenance Technician Associate Director, Safety and Security Associate Director, Wellness Director of Operations Head Chef / Kitchen Manager Office Manager Senior Director, Engagement Senior Manager, Volunteerism Associate Director, Arts & Creative Expressions Security, Safety & Hospitality Assistant Dance Program Assistant Assistant Manager, Grants Associate Director, Institutional Giving Box Office Manager (Teen Intern) Closed Captioning Operator (Teen Intern) Light Board Operator (Teen Intern) Sound Board Operator (Teen Intern)

El Centro del Sur Special Thanks

El Centro del Sur Agradecimiento especial Daniela Naranjo Yazmin Zavala Yaritza Madrigal Jonathan Moran Emily Santiago Maria Lucero The staff of APCH Blanca Araceli Soto “Las Madre Hadas” Lorena Ortiz “Mañanas Latinas” Maria Natividad Aguirre de Perez Blanca Estela Ibarra Astrid Rodriguez Juan and Amelia Enriquez Kristel Giampaolo Miranda Richard Marsha Ramos Janet Borrus

Theater Program Staff

Personal del programa de teatro

Efrain Schunior

Colton Bassett

Roy De Oliveira

Theater Program Manager

Theater Technical Coordinator

Production Management Intern

Efrain Schunior (he/him/el) is an award-winning Director and Producer who originally hails from Las Cruces, New Mexico.

He holds a BA in Theater Arts and an MFA in Directing for the Stage from UCLA. Efrain has produced theater locally, nationally and internationally including multiple productions at Edinburgh Fringe Festival, NYC International Fringe Festival and Hollywood Fringe Festival. Additionally, he is the recipient of the Gilbert Cates Opportunity Fellowship for Artistic Merit as well as the DOMA Award for best new Musical, 2015, for his original musical Lydia Trueblood: The Black Widow of the Atlantic Coast.

Colton Bassett (he/him/el) is an LA based theater educator specializing in technical theater. He graduated from Emerson College in 2021 with a B.A. in Media Arts Production, and strives to blend his background in film and TV with his passion for theater. He previously taught theater at Alverno Heights Academy and served as Technical Director for their production of Newsies JR, which ran at the Sierra Madre Playhouse in April of 2023.

Additional theater credits include The Addams Family, How to Succeed…, Beauty and the Beast, Pericles, and Pygmalion.

Roy De Oliveira (he/him/el) is a Venezuelan artist and student pursuing theatre in Los Angeles. Some of his recent credits include Beethoven in Dog Sees God and Moritz in Spring Awakening. On the technical side, Roy has Assistant Stage Managed Hussian College Los Angeles' recent production of Macbeth.

He is delighted to be working on a Latinx Theater Festival and contributing to the diverse and beautiful community of South Central Los Angeles. Roy is participating in this year’s festival through the generous support of the internship program at Los Angeles County Department of Arts & Culture.

Theater Program Staff

Personal del programa de teatro

Efrain Schunior

Colton Bassett

Roy De Oliveira

Theater Program Manager

Theater Technical Coordinator

Production Management Intern

Efrain Schunior (él) es un director y productor galardonado originario de Las Cruces, New Mexico. Tiene un BA en Artes Teatrales y un Masters en Dirección Escénica de UCLA. Efraín ha producido teatro a nivel local, nacional e internacional, incluyendo producciones en el Festival Fringe de Edimburgo, el Festival Fringe Internacional de Nueva York y el Festival Fringe de Hollywood. Además, recibió la beca Gilbert Cates Opportunity Fellowship for Artistic Merit, y también el premio DOMA al mejor musical nuevo, 2015, por su musical original. Lydia Trueblood: The Black Widow of the Atlantic Coast.

Colton Bassett (él) es un educador teatral radicado en Los Ángeles que se especializa en teatro técnico. Se graduó de Emerson College en 2021 con un B.A. en Producción de Artes Mediáticas y se esfuerza por combinar su experiencia en cine y televisión con su pasión por el teatro. Anteriormente enseñó teatro en la Academia Alverno Heights y se desempeñó como director técnico para la producción de Newsies JR,que se presentó en Sierra Madre Playhouse en abril de 2023. Los créditos teatrales adicionales incluyen The Addams Family, How to Succeed…, Beauty and the Beast, Pericles, y Pygmalion.

Roy De Oliveira (él) es un artista venezolano y estudiante de teatro en Los Ángeles.

Algunos de sus créditos recientes incluyen a Beethoven en Dog Sees God y Moritz en Spring Awakening. En el aspecto técnico, Roy es el asistente de dirección de escena de la reciente producción de Hussain College Los Ángeles de Macbeth. Está encantado de trabajar en un Festival de Teatro Latinx y contribuir a la diversa y hermosa comunidad del Centro Sur de Los Ángeles. Roy participa en el festival de este año gracias al generoso apoyo del programa de pasantías del Departamento de Arte y Cultura del Condado de Los Ángeles.

Thursday September 14, 2023 @ 8pm

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Company of Angels presents

Mariposa written by Chris Banda directed by Jacqueline Guido produced by Justin Huen Max Brother - Technical Director Nitzya Estrada Hammam - Stage Manager Roy De Oliveira - Spanish Translations starring (in alphabetical order) Alejandro Bravo Diana Cruz Julia Renee Diaz Nitzya Estrada Hammam El Henry Madrid Raul Vega Martinez Setting Baldwin Park - The Present Director’s Note: So many times, as creatives, we say, "We want to see our stories, told by our people for our people." With Mariposa, I say with great pride that we are manifesting that dream. My heart shines with gratitude as I see my beautiful, intuitive, and talented cast bring Chris Banda’s words to life. Mariposa is a semi-autobiographical piece; being so personal has made it so universal. It has touched every single one of us working on it, to the core. Thank you, my dear Chris Banda, for your unique and authentic voice. Thank you, Justin, for bringing me on board and trusting me to be the person to bring this magical yet very real and relevant piece to life. I am honored to be the director of Mariposa and blessed for the opportunity to work with artists I love and admire. Thank you, A Place Called Home and Company of Angels, for this space and opportunity to share our stories and touch souls. To our audience, thank you, and enjoy the show. Que viva el teatro, blessings, Jacqueline Guido Company of Angels Staff Armando Molina - Artistic Director / Lui Sanchez - Associate Artistic Director / Julianna Stephanie Ojeda Associate Producer / Amelia Rose Workolk-Lytton - Business Manager / Xavi Moreno - Producing Director / Richard Azurdia - Producing Director / Nakasha Norwood - Company Manager Corinne Chooey - Angel City Improv Director / Diri of Community Engagement

Friday September 15, 2023 @ 8pm

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Skylight Theatre Company presents

La Egoista written by Erlina Ortiz directed by Daphnie Sicre produced by Gary Grossman & Armando Huipe associate produced by Tyree Marshall translation by Cristina Fernandez Cedes Sifuentes - Production Manager Jennifer Palumbo* - Stage Manager Mylette Nora - Costume Design Cristian Amigo - Sound Design Christine Papalexis - Puppet Design starring (in alphabetical order) Chanel Castañeda* Lys Perez*

*Actors and Stage Manager appear courtesy of AEA We wish to express our gratitude to the Performers’ Unions ACTORS’ EQUITY ASSOCIATION AMERICAN GUILD OF MUSICAL ARTISTS AMERICAN GUILD OF VARIETY ARTISTS SAG-AFTRA through Theatre Authority, Inc. for their cooperation in permitting the Artists to appear in this program.

Skylight Theatre Company Staff Armando Huipe - Executive Director / Gary Grossman - Producing Artistic Director / Sandee Grossman Managing Director / Benjamin Rawls - Technical Director / Tyree Marshall - Artistic Associate / Cedes Sifuentes Management Associate / Judith Borne - Publicist / Jonathan Olivares Design - Graphic Design

Directors Note: In La Egoista, I find myself deeply drawn to the central question that permeates the play: Who is the true "La Egoista"? Is it Josefina, the devoted sister who sacrifices her dreams, aspirations, and even her identity to care for her ailing sibling, Betsaida? Or is it Betsaida herself, who, knowingly or unknowingly, accepts this sacrifice? As I explore this question, I am struck by the complexity of their relationship and the profound emotional resonance it carries.

However, what truly stands out in La Egoista is the metaphorical presence of the health care system. The health care system, in its unyielding stance, becomes the ultimate "La Egoista," refusing to sacrifice anything for the greater good. It serves as a stark reminder of how many of us are hindered in our pursuit of true care, whether it be for ourselves or our loved ones, by a system that often prioritizes profit over well-being.

As a director, it is my intention to bring these themes to life on the stage, allowing the audience to connect with the characters and their struggles. La Egoista is not just a play; it is a mirror that reflects the complexities of human relationships, societal pressures, and the sacrifices we all must grapple with in our quest for care and compassion.

- Daphnie Sicre

Saturday September 16, 2023 @ 1030am

ECDS BLOCK PARTY 10:30am - Mariachi Jalisco 12:00pm - APCH Dance Company 1:00pm - APCH Dance Company FOOD VENDORS RAFFLE PRIZES INFO VENDORS VACCINE INFORMATION AND MORE!!!!

THE APCH DANCE COMPANY IS: VALERY HERNANDEZ - ANDREA ARGUETA - JESSICA VASQUEZ - GISELLE VERDUZCO - JULISSA TORRES - MARIANA VELAZQUEZ - JOHANNA ESCOBEDO - MELANIE GUATEMALA - KIMBERLY OLMEDO - JAZMIN LEZO IRLANDA MEJIA - MELANNE ESTRADA - MELINA SALADO - MARLEN HERRERA - DARELYN RODRIGUEZ

Saturday September 16, 2023 @ 3pm www.apch.org

ACT@APCH presents

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Bodalands written by Leonard Madrid directed by Efrain Schunior sound designed by Luz Velazquez & Colton Bassett lights and video designed by Colton Bassett Production Manager - Roy De Oliveira Rehearsal Stage Manager - Yazmin Zavala Stage Management Intern - Bryan Vasquez Stage Management Intern - Rocio D Costume Coordinator - Efrain Schunior Assistant Sound Designer - Saul Sanchez Rehearsal Assistant Stage Manager - Jose Z Costume & Jewelry Consultant - Linda Carlos Spanish Translations - Roy De Oliveira Props & Scenery Build - The Cast & Crew of Bodalands starring (in order of appearance) Lana - Dagmar T Lulu - Angel P Chote - Hayden S Mati - Joss R Understudy All Roles - Marilyn I running crew: Jayleen M S & Moises O A

Director’s Note: It’s fun to have cousins. Most of the time…

When I started working on this play, I thought about my own family and I realized there is nothing in the world quite like that bond I have with my own cousins. Loving, Volatile, Funny, Forgiving, Present and Always There for Each Other. We’ve gotten into some weird predicaments that can’t really be explained to outsiders (nor should they be -- ever!). Generally you will outlive your parents. And your children will generally outlive you. But your primos walk with you through this life - beginning, middle and end. We hope you find something funny in this play that makes you want to send your favorite cousins a text that simply says “Quit It OUT!” This play takes place over 40 years, 1985 - 2015 ACT@APCH is the Advanced Classes in Theater track at A Place Called Home

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Saturday September 16, 2023 @ 8pm www.apch.org

A Place Called Home presents

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(Un)Documents written & performed by Jesus I. Valles originally directed by Rudy Ramirez sound design by Johann Mahler projection design by Elizabeth Barrett spanish translations - Roy De Oliveira Setting Then, and now, on both sides of the Rio Bravo.

(Un)Documents is an encore presentation brought to you by A Place Called Home, originally co-produced by The Latino Theatre Co. When I tell you I'm Mexican, I'm pointing to the country that wanted me dead first. When I tell you I feel American, I'm telling you how often I think about how I'll die here. Sometimes, when we cite our geographies, we're telling you what we survived and what is going to kill us.

Nationalisms are lies and, more often than not, only help to reveal the specific harms that are inflicted upon us and people across the globe in the name of maintaining the violent project that is nation.A nation is blood constantly drying atop a wound. You trade one cut for another. You always pay in skin. A nation is a thing that kills you, slow and fast. Makes you wait to die.

Makes you pay to die. My country is the people I love. My country is the people who labor and struggle and burn. My country is my people always, always from everywhere.

And even then, "country" is too dangerous a word for all the ways that love and struggle should be. May all borders vanish one day. May all countries end one day.

May we all be allowed to be with each other in all the ways divinity has already ordained.

May we all be free one day. We only got us.

It is everything we need.

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Jesús I. Valles

LOCATED IN CLASSROOM 1

Saturday September 16, 2023 www.apch.org

ACT@APCH presents

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selections from…

Los Vendidos

A Virtual Reality Experience in Classroom 1 written by Luis Valdez & Teatro Campesino directed by Edwin Lobato Production Manager - Efrain Schunior Technology Manager - Iovani Dominguez Scenery & Costume Designer - Colton Bassett Acting Coach - Daniela Naranjo & Priscilla Recendez Editor - Colton Bassett starring (in order of appearance): Honest Sancho - Joss R Ms. Jimenez - Dagmar T Ms. Jimenez - Yaritza M Farmworkers - Jorge A, Alisson C Pachucos - Marilyn I, Edwin L Cop - Anthony V Revolucionario - Angel Z Mexican American - Jonathan M Director’s Note First and foremost, welcome to A Place Called Home. My name is Edwin Lobato and I welcome you to a project I’ve been working on since Spring 2023. It’s called Los Vendidos. This play is intensely special to me because I was given an opportunity to direct it by one of the best, Mr. Efrain. Los Vendidos is a type of play where it examines stereotypes of Latinos in California, and how they are treated by locals. My actors have done a terrific job playing these characters and I do hope you enjoy the show. Edwin OUT!!

Theater Program Manager Note: This production was directed by high school senior Edwin Lobato last spring, when he was in his final semester of high school. Edwin is a promising young man with a bright future in the arts, and he worked seamlessly with the actors and the APCH staff to make this production happen. I watched his peers look up to him as a leader, and I saw the staff respect him as a talented artist. We couldn’t be more proud of Edwin as he enters his first year of college as a Directing student.

ACT@APCH is the Advanced Classes in Theater track at A Place Called Home

Sunday September 17, 2023 @ 12pm www.thesidewaysociety.com

The Sideway Society presents

Spread

@thesideway society

(A Staged Reading) written by Jesús I. Valles directed by Efrain Schunior sound design by Jose Z (Teen Intern) Starring America Torres as Andrew Ian Casas as Jeffrey Everaldo Aviles as Jordan Joey Mendez as Chris Take some dry ramen and throw it in a plastic bag. Add Hot Cheetos, beef jerky bits, beans, Hot Fries, and hot water.

Mayonnaise or mustard (if you like that shit). Let it sit. Enjoy. Anything can be lunch in 9th grade. Anything can be anything. Jeffrey, Andrew, Chris, and Jordan are 9th grade boys and they’re trying their absolute best, and the thing about 9th grade is nobody knows what they’re doing. Here they are, at lunch. Here they are, at home. Here they are, together, in 9th grade, hoping they’ll get through it.

Jesús I. Valles (they/them) is a queer Mexican immigrant, educator, storyteller, and performer from Cd. Juarez/El Paso. Jesús is a 2021 CantoMundo fellowship recipient at the Palm Beach Poetry Festival, a 2019 Lambda Literary fellow, a 2019 Walter E. Dakin Playwriting Fellow of the Sewanee Writers’ Conference, a recipient of the 2019 Letras Latinas Scholarship from the Community of Writers’ Poetry Workshop, and a poetry fellow at Idyllwild Arts Writers Week. Jesús is also a 2018 Undocupoets Fellow, a 2018 Tin House Scholar, a fellow of The 2018 Poetry Incubator, and the runner-up in the 2017 Button Poetry Chapbook Contest. Their work has been published in The Shade Journal, The Texas Review, The New Republic, Palabritas, The Acentos Review, Quarterly West, The Mississippi Review, Palette, The Adroit Journal, BOAAT, The McNeese Review, and PANK. Their poetry has also been featured on NPR’s Code Switch, The Slowdown, The BreakBeat Poets' LatiNext Anthology, and the Best New Poets 2020 anthology. As an actor, they are the recipient of four B. Iden Payne Awards, including Outstanding Lead Actor in a Drama (2018), and Outstanding Original Script (2018) and they were nominated for the Mark David Cohen New Play Award for their play, (Un)Documents. They most recently starred as Penny Marshall in Victor I. Cazares' Pinching Pennies with Penny Marshall: Death Rituals for Penny Marshall for New York Theatre Workshop. Jesús is currently OUTSider festival’s OUTsider-in-residence and an MFA playwriting student at Brown University.

L.A. REAL

Sunday September 17, 2023 @ 3pm https://www.aboutpd.org/

About…Productions presents

@aboutpd

L.A. Real written & directed by Theresa Chavez Starring Mestiza Narrator/Co-Songwriter - Marlene Beltran Rodolfo Serling - Marco Rodriguez Antonio Maria Lugo (Voiceover) - Liane Schirmer César Castro “Jarochelo” - Composer/Musician/Co-Songwriter/Sound Engineer Ly Eisenstein - Video Designer Jeanette Godoy - Costume Designer Dorothy Hoover - Set Designer Claudio Rocha - Videographer, Real Estate Agent Video Sofija “Jay” Dutcher - Administrative Director Gaby Ostrove - Program Coordinator Philip Mejia - Stage Manager Pondering its complicated layers, a Latina dives deep into her California ancestral history and how she should embrace it on a personal, political and cultural level. How can she connect to a past that has been nearly lost in time and move forward with a deeper sense of her identity?

About…Productions creates original interdisciplinary theaterworks and educational programs that provoke new perspectives on history, humanity, and culture. The company is dedicated to generating new work through collaboration to create artistic and community dialogue. The award-winning company is dedicated to generating new work through collaboration to create artistic and community dialogue; and believes in the power of theater to enlighten audiences, transform youth, and celebrate the lives of elders. Its theaterworks and educational programs unearth and illuminate cultural histories of Latin America, the Southwest, California, and Los Angeles. The company has toured throughout the U.S., and in Canada, and been featured on national television. More info at aboutpd.org.

L.A. Real and other productions are part of the About…Productions Original Theaterworks Digital Collection.

Housed as part of the California State University, Northridge Library Digital Collection, it provides public access to our 35 years of distinctive storytelling. The collection includes scripts, photos, videos, and other related items from our original theaterworks, including By the Hand of the Father (2000), They Shoot Mexicans, Don’t They? (2005, 2017), Bleeding Through (2009), Evangeline, the Queen of Make-Believe (2012, 2018-19), I: Witness (2017) and other productions to be represented soon.

The Diary of Anne Frank (LatinX)

Sunday September 17, 2023 @ 7pm

PopUp Playhouse, The Burbank Human Relations Commission, Tracey Rooney, and Wilson Cruz present

The Diary of Anne Frank (LatinX) @diaryofannefranklatinx

Written by Frances Goodrich and Albert Hackett Newly Adapted by Wendy Kesselman Directed by Stan Zimmerman Starring Anne Frank - Genesis Ochoa Otto Frank - Emiliano Torres Mrs. Frank - Tasha Dixon Margot Frank - Emily Trujillo Mrs. Van Daan - Jackie Osorio Mr. Van Daan - Noah F. Madril Peter Van Daan - David Gurrola Mr. Kraler - Charlie Farrell Miep - Rebecca Asquino Mr. Dussell - Aris Alvarado

Understudies Keara Bird (Anne/Margot) / Devon Deleon (Peter/Kraler) / Hector Hernandez (Mr. Dussell) / Ina Loaiza (Mrs. Frank / Mrs. Van Daan) / Ben Martinez (Mr. Frank / Mr. Van Daan) Assistant Directed by Lizzie Kramer Casting by Julie Gale Stage Managed by Joaquin “Moose” Guadamez Spanish Translations by Roy De Oliveira In 2018, the Trump administration’s zero-tolerance immigration policy separated over 5,000 children from their parents, who were only coming to America for a better life. Much like my relatives did. I noticed when some families were reunited, our government had taken away their clothing and issued them gray pants and hoodies. I felt helpless. Then one morning I woke up and saw a CNN report about a Jewish woman in Los Angeles who hid a Latina mom and her two daughters after the mom’s husband was suddenly deported by ICE. The Jewish woman was introduced to this family by a local priest.

I wondered: “what did they all do at night when they were in hiding?” “Did the jewish woman tell them about the story of Anne Frank?” “Did this woman worry how risky creating a safe house was?”

Luckily, I got to talk to her and she explained… “What began as an attempt to live out my Jewish values and push back against an inhumane immigrant policy turned into a blessing: a chance to feel the warmth of that proverbial single candle in the darkness."

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