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ABCD by Lily Abha Cratsely '23 will be performed at Greenway Court Theatre with Kai Morfín'22stage managing, Simi Fulton '23 assistant stage managing and Professor Shivani ThakkarǻܳԲ
In ABCD, three generations of Indian women reunite to attend Tara’s Arangetram (the debut solo performance for students of the Indian classical dance style Bharatanatyam). While preparing a celebratory dinner in her absence, Tara’s sister, mother, and grandmother clash and comfort one another. Willow, Tara’s younger sister and bold academic, is eager to learn all that her Nani can teach her about her culture. Aditi, a freshly divorced mom, finds herself stuck between an overbearing mother and a critical daughter in her new home. Nani, the family's matriarch, must face Jersey City once again after having moved back to India. What will happen when loss, love, and longing are shared across the dinner table?
Lily Abha Cratsley first started writing ABCD as astudent at Occidental College, where it was featured in the Theater & Performance Studies Department's 2022 New Works Festival. Her senior year, ABCD was even selected as a finalist in the Garry Marshall New Works Festival! Lily is so thrilled to present the first staged production of ABCD this November at the Greenway Court Theatre through a co-production with Greenway Arts Alliance and KriyaShakti Performing Arts. Prof. Shivani Thakkar is producing, and Oxy alums Kai Morfín and Simi Fulton make up the stage managing team! Join the Oxy theater family in supporting Lily's play for its closing night performance, Sunday, November 19 at 7pm.
Sandy Nguyn '21 and Dyoni Isom '19 are producing one of the plays at the Hantext '22 Play Reading Festival
Join them for a 4 day festival celebrating the work of queer and trans playwrights of color from the Hantext class of '22.
Hilary Kang Oglesby ‘22 and Natalya Nielsen '22 are performing inby Makaela Vogel ‘21 at the Echo Theater Company
Hilary Kang-Oglesby ‘22 and Natalya Nielsen '22 will perform inMother Sisters by Makaela Vogel '21, a powerful testament to sisterhood and familial history. Based on interviews with Vogel'seight aunts, this docu-play provides a compelling insight into late 20th century womanhood.An earlier draft of this project was staged as her senior comps and will be making it's premiere at the Echo Theater Company.
Alyssa Escalante ‘10 directs Amanda Wagner ‘16 in at the Hollywood Fringe Festival
Amanda Wagner '16 stars as Joan of Arc in a contemporary take on the fifteenthcentury's most documented historical figure. Written by Carolyn Gage and directed by Alyssa Escalante '10, this one-woman show gives the famed martyr a chance to tell her story on her own terms. A searing testimony of her expierences with the church and militrary, The Second Coming of Joan of Arccontendswith a brutal history of misogynythat has metriculated into today's modern landscape.
Haley Moran '15is starring in the world premier ofat the Actors Theater of Louisville.
Flexis set in1997, just when the WNBA is changing the game. Every player on Plainnole’s Lady Train basketball team now dreams of going pro—but first, they’ll have to navigate the pressures of being young, black and female in rural Arkansas. Will their fouls off the court tear their team apart? Or can they keep their pact to stick together through hell or high water? With all the adrenaline and swagger of a four-quarter game, Candrice Jones’s powerful new play celebrates the fierce athleticism of women’s basketball. Starring Haley Moran '15.
Brandon Baruch '07 is lighting designer for Four Larks & LA Chamber Orchestra's
Featuring site-specific visual concepts staged by art collectiveFour Larks, SESSIONis a unique experience whereLACO (Los Angeles Chamber Orchestra) musiciansjoin forceswith compellingcomposers. LACO Sessions are an exciting fusion of music and art, with light design by Brandon Baruch '07.
called the last Session "the best new music concert in Los Angeles" and"an event I will not soon forget, and that will challenge even the most adventurous program of any series in Los Angeles this year."
by Erik Patterson '00 opens at the Echo Theater Company September 7, 2019
The show will run until October 28, 2019.
at Art Share LA - August 15-September 7, 2019
Elena Sánchez '18 in the Hollywood Fringe Festival 2019
Recent alum Elena Sánchez is in the! She will be in the world premiere of "Speak I Will!," a production of Fractured Shakespeare.
Show information:
Preview:Saturday, June 8th at 3:30pm
Performanced:Sunday, June 16th at 7pm; Friday, June 21st at 11pm; Saturday, June 29th at 12pm(noon); Sunday, June 30th at 6:30pm.
The premiere took place at(Studio C), located on 6448 Santa Monica Blvd.
Sánchez is also featured in the recent short film"?"
Kenyon Meleney '15 in Peter and the Starcatcher
Tony-winningPeter and the Starcatcherupends the century-old story of how a miserable orphan comes to be The Boy Who Would Not Grow Up (aka Peter Pan). A young orphan and his mates are shipped off from Victorian England to a distant land ruled by the evil King Zarboff. At sea, the boys are discovered by a precocious young girl named Molly, a Starcatcher-in-training, who realizes that a mysterious trunk's precious cargo is Starstuff, a celestial substance so powerful it must never fall into the wrong hands. When the ship is taken over by pirates, the journey quickly becomes a thrilling adventure. From marauding pirates and jungle tyrants to unwilling comrades and unlikely heroes,Peter and the Starcatcherplayfully explores the depths of greed and despair, and the bonds of friendship, duty, and love.
Performed in fall 2016 at the Torrance Theater Company
Maggie Fullilove-Nugent '04 is appointed Production Manager at :
Maggie Fullilove-Nugent '04 is Production Manager at TimeLine Theatre in Chicago, a prominent theater that has received over 50 Joseph Jefferson Awards. She also maintains involvement in her company .