MUSIC! COMEDY! DRAMA! THREE GREAT THINGS THAT TASTE GREAT TOGETHER - LAWTP'S 3 FRINGE SHOWS
The LAWTP's Summer of Music, Comedy & Drama
The Los Angeles Women’s Theatre Project has announced tickets are on sale now for three productions running in conjunction with the Hollywood Fringe Festival: THAT’S WHAT SHE SAID, CRAZY IS WHAT CRAZY DOES and THE OBLIVION SERIES will be performed at Stella Adler-Los Angeles from June 4 – July 18.
THAT’S WHAT SHE SAID is a mad musical bouquet of imaginative, comic songs about lesbians. Amy Turner, vocalist, and Kathryn Lounsbery, pianist and vocalist, effortlessly take their audiences on a whirlwind tour through music: jazz, rap, folk, disco, light opera, and power ballads, to name a few, are presented on an eco-friendly silver platter. Their musical versatility and impeccable comic timing have quickly garnered rave reviews and a world-wide following. (June 4 – July 16, Fridays, 8pm)
CRAZY IS WHAT CRAZY DOES is the latest one-woman power shot written and performed by critically-acclaimed Ruthy Otero. Returning home from a trip around the world, Ruth is miserable because she feels unable to be her true authentic self on American soil…or within 3 thousand miles of her family. In her fearless and hilarious fashion, Ruth continues to explore trust, choice, guilt, sex, envy and crazy while looking for the “right” life. (June 5 and 6 previews, June 12 – July 18, Saturdays 8pm and Sundays 2pm)
THE OBLIVION SERIES, the new original one-act by Justine Warrington, is an intimate, raw and provocative journey through the trials and tribulations of existence in today’s fast-paced, sensationalistic and increasingly frightening world told through monologues by modern women battling their deepest fears and fighting for truth, clarity, connection and love. Directed by Jennie O’Donnell, the cast is Warrington, teresa crespo hartendorp, Diana Elizabeth Jordan, Sara Beth Lane and Sarah Rosenberg. This piece contains adult language and partial nudity. (June 5 and 6 previews, June 12 – July 18, Saturdays 8pm and Sundays 2pm following CRAZY)
The Los Angeles Women’s Theatre Project is a non-profit organization founded in 2007 by playwright Dee Jae Cox and songwriter Michele Weiss. It is dedicated to the education, support, promotion and production of live performance projects that are of interest and benefit to women. LAWTP produces the 20% New Works Festival, sponsors literary organizations and was nominated for the 2009 Community Achievement Award by the Los Angeles Gay and Lesbian Chamber of Commerce.
LAWTP Summer Season tickets are available now at lawomenstheatreproject.com and range from $12 – 32. Stella Adler is at 6773 Hollywood Blvd., 2nd floor, Los Angeles 90028. Convenient parking at Hollywood/Highland for $2 with theatre validation and Metro bus and train stops. For tickets, group sales and more show information, call 818.471.9100. Media questions and requests (including review tix), please contact Deborah on 323.467.7633 or [email protected].
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BIOGRAPHIES
Amy Turner and Kathryn Lounsbery (THAT’S WHAT SHE SAID) have taken their show across the country and to Mexico. They’ve been featured on LOGO television and are recent darlings of the film festival circuit with their hard-core rap "U-Haul: The Music Video.” Amy has performed in Second City Sings, You the Musical and Wide Awake. She was also the queer culture correspondent on the LTN Network. Kathryn is an accomplished piano player (including musical improv), editor, arranger and vocal coach.
“Los Angeles performers Amy Turner and Kathryn Lounsbery are such good company, and their original songs about lesbian life are so blithely inviting…” Richard Dodds, The Bay Area Reporter
Ruthy Otero (CRAZY IS AS CRAZY DOES) is the author and performer of the hit one-woman shows, “Oops! I Killed My Mother” “Dancing with My Demons” and “Losin’ My Religion.” Ruth can be seen in national commercials and conducts workshops on how to create and produce a one-person show.
“One funny Latina.” – LA Weekly “Otero is a gifted physical comedienne.” – NY Daily News
“Otero’s timing and honesty are her strengths, as she segues characters with fluid authority." – Backstage East
Justine Warrington (THE OBLIVION SERIES) was nominated for a Best Supporting Actress Award at the 2006 Leo’s for her boundary-pushing role of “Ginny” in The Cabin Movie. She then played opposite Michael Madsen in Vice. Her television credits include The Chris Isaak Show and The L Word. Theater credits include productions of David Ives’ short comedies, The Curate Shakespeare As You Like It by Don Nigro, The Ladies of the Camellias by Lillian Groag, and The Vagina Monologues by Eve Ensler. The first incarnation of Warrington’s original stage play THE OBLIVION SERIES was produced by Lori Triolo at the Beaumont Studios (Vancouver, Canada) after being selected for showcase by The Cold Reading Series. It was then part of the LAWTP 20% New Works Festival for emerging writers. The new, completed version celebrates its American debut as an official selection of the inaugural Hollywood Fringe Festival.
teresa crespo hartendorp (THE OBLIVION SERIES) is an independent filmmaker who recently completed the documentary The People of Peace: A Message from the Hopi, as well as Harmony & Melody and the short shE smilE prEtty. Film credits include Nails with Dennis Hopper and Anne Archer, Out of the Dark with Karen Black, Tab Hunter and Divine, the Academy Award-winning Session Man with James Remar. TV credits include China Beach and numerous commercials. tch has performed on stage at The Cast, Celebration Theatre, On the Fringe, Griffth Park and the LA Theatre Academy. She also plays guitar in a power trio called tch & mAdmAx.
Diane Elizabeth Jordan (THE OBLIVION SERIES) is the first student with a disability to graduate with a B.A. in Theater and Media Arts from the University of Kansas, and the first to earn an MFA from CalState Long Beach. Her theater credits include Laura in The Glass Menagerie (Black Ensemble Theater, Steppenwolf Theater) Emily in Our Town (Baliwick Theater), Ruth in Someday (Cornerstone Theater) and Olga in My Three Sisters (The Actors Playpen). She also appeared on 7th Heaven, the webseries The Hollywood Acting Class and in the films The Young and Evil, Rule of Three, Alpha Geek and Luna si. She will soon be featured in the upcoming documentaries Pretty People and Imaginary Circumstances. Diana currently serves on SAG’s National Performers with Disabilities Committee and the advisory committee for the IAMPWD Campaign. She is an acting coach at Performing Arts Studio West, a performing arts training studio for adults with disabilities.
Sara Beth Lane (THE OBLIVION SERIES) danced with the Alvin Ailey American Dance Theatre for 6 years as a U.S. Ambassador of Dance, taking her to 21 countries. She has performed on Broadway, the Pasadena Playhouse, the Goodman Theatre, Sacramento Music Circus and most recently in the Athena Theatre’s Metamorphosis @ Lankershim NoHo Arts. Beth worked with Inside Out Community Arts of Venice as a theater instructor for at-risk youth and children with Aspberger’s Syndrome.
Sarah Rosenberg (THE OBLIVION SERIES) has film and television credits that include Foxfire with Angelina Jolie and Jenny Lewis, ER, Cold Case, Shooting Nick (which she also wrote), Southland and Joe Dick.
Jennie O’Donnell (THE OBLIVION SERIES) has directed many shows including This is War for the LAWTP 20% New Works Festival, The Apartment, Danny and the Deep Blue Sea, Vanities, Fool for Love and The Seagull for the stage and a series of Radio Mystery Hours. She co-produced and directed Up and At ‘Em, a benefit for the Alcoholism Center for Women, Los Angeles. Film and television credits include producing and directing the pilot episode of West of Hollywood and directing Shattered to Whole, a documentary on healing from childhood sexual abuse.
