Written and Performed by Josiah Blount
Directed by David Bridel
Voice of God: Lake Bell
Choreographed by Taylor Sieve

Josiah Blount (he/him) is an LA-based actor and writer. Film credits include Ted 2 (Universal), and The Gambler (Paramount). TV credits include Modern Family (ABC), The Mentalist (CBS), Suburgatory (ABC), and Happyland (MTV). As a writer, his pilot script Abomination was a quarterfinalist in the 2023 Screencraft TV Pilot Script Competition. He was recently invited to the Sunday Company at The Groundlings and will begin performing there in the coming months. He is a graduate of The Clown School and performs throughout Los Angeles.

Run time: 1 hour 15 minutes, no intermission

Written by Tony Abatemarco
Directed by Chuma Gault

Oct 25 – “That Kowalski Kid” (Featuring Bill Brochtrup, Jenny O’Hara, Keliher Walsh, and Lee Sherman)

Nov 23 – “Jefferson/Thea”

Dec 12 – “Horatio Street”

Tony Abatemarco (he/him)  has been active in the Los Angeles theatre community for over forty-six years where, as actor, director, writer, and/or producer, he has worked at dozens of intimate theatres, and at L.O.R.T. houses such as South Coast Rep, the Mark Taper Forum, Taper, Too, the Kirk Douglas, Geffen Playhouse, Pasadena Playhouse, A Noise Within, I.C.T. Long Beach and in New York at the Public, LaMama, the Cherry Lane, Theatre of the Open Eye. At Broadway’s Music Hall he directed the world premiere of “Lucifer’s Child” starring Julie Harris. He’s worked nationally at Pittsburgh Public, the Kennedy Center, Arena Stage, the Folger, Williamstown (two seasons), Harvard’s Loeb, Boston’s Colonial, and Santa Fe Rep. His four produced plays, ACTION/ITEMS, The Collected Plays of Tony Abatemarco was published by F-Stop Books, and his songs were published by Ulyssés Musique, Paris. Since 1980, he has co-authored the award-winning musical BRAIN HOTEL for the Cast Theatre and LA Olympics Arts Festival ‘84, as well as SIR VIVAL SWEEPSTAKES for Jacques D’Amboise’ National Dance Institute at the Mark Taper Forum. where he also directed IMAGINING A FUTURE. Center Theatre Group produced his musical IN SAMBA ZONES for the 1988 Taper,Too New Works Festival. His musical, THE NEXT BIG THING, was workshopped by Audrey Skirball-Kenis’s Theatre at the MacGowan Theatre, UCLA. His monologues have been produced in L.A. at Stages, the Tiffany Theatre (DramaLogue’s “Best One Person Show” for FOUR FATHERS), the Evidence Room, Skylight Theatre, as well as in Ojai, Santa Fe, Miami, and Off-Broadway at Rattlestick. His two full-length plays, BEAUTIFIED (2012) and FOREVER HOUSE (2016), received their world premieres at Skylight Theatre, where he served as Co-Artistic Director from 2011 to `22. Internationally, he has performed in “Waiting for Electra” in Delphi, Greece, as “Socrates” at the ICA in London, as well as directing “Catwalk Confidential” at the Edinburgh Fringe and at the Arts Theatre in the West End. In `90 he directed a bi-lingual production of Eric Overmyer’s “On The Verge” at Teatre Grevin, Paris.

He is the recipient of over twenty-five Los Angeles theatre awards and nominations by The L.A. Theatre Critics’ Circle, Ovation Awards (each for multiple Lead Performances), LA Weekly (LAWEE), DramaLogue, Garland, BroadwayWorld, & Stage Scenies in each of his professional categories, as well as two NEA Fellowships, the first George Stevens’ Observership from SDC and the Directors’ Guild, and the first Ted Schmitt Memorial Award for “Innovation in Small Theatre” from Theatre LA.

In addition to curating “Thresholds of Invention”, a new play development series at L.A’s Odyssey Theatre, this Fall (`24) Tony is thrilled to fulfill this three-month Artist Residency at the Lily Tomlin-Jane Wagner LGBTQ Center in Hollywood where he will further develop his own Lost & Found Trilogy of plays under the direction of Chuma Gault.

A graduate of the Advanced Acting Program at Juilliard, Tony was Adjunct Professor of B.A. Acting at USC, and is an Endowed Chair at Santa Monica Emeritus College.

Run time: 90 minutes, no intermission

Conceived by Provvidenza and Molly Prather
Performed by Provvidenza
Directed by Molly Prather

Provvidenza Catalano (Enza/they/them) is a community motivator, teacher and performance artist working in Los Angeles. Enza uses live performance, local events and creative pedagogies to experiment with community building techniques, applied queerness and radical love. They organize with Them Fatale, LA’s longest running community drag show, who over the course of 6 years have raised close to $40,000 for local queer and trans mutual aid projects. As an actor, you may have seen them in your favorite teen drama as the local trans pastor or the quirky gay waiter in a recent SXSW indie. They are also the long-time host of RuPaul’s DragCon in Los Angeles, New York City and London. On stage, Provvidenza has performed at The Hammer Museum, The Getty and numerous other theatres and universities across the US. Most recently debuting their new performance work Butch Visions at One Institute’s inaugural Circa Festival.Their written work has appeared in The Advocate and Fat & Queer: An Anthology of Queer and Trans Bodies and Lives. Enza is currently pursuing a MFA in Performance Pedagogy at Loyola Marymount University building upon over 15 years of organizing and performance work.

75-90 minutes, no intermission

Written and Performed by Laural Meade
Directed by Michael Schlitt
With Gregory Nabours, Piano
Styling by Daniel Salon

Laural Meade‘s (she/her) live theater creations explore titillating figures from early 20th century American history and have been seen in venues near and far, from L.A.’s Mark Taper Forum to Chicago’s Bailiwick to Speeltheater in Edam, Holland. Laural writes and directs – and often takes over the mic, delivering a special brand of torchy-jazz-pop. She has kicked up her heels while singing material both sacred and profane at Largo at the Coronet, The Bootleg, Fais Do-do, Getty Villa, The Mint and the Los Angeles Theater Center. The historic Gardenia Supper Club recently featured her in a year-long performance residency, belting out the saucy songs and stories of jazz great Sophie Tucker. When she’s not telling Tucker’s dirty jokes, you can find her in a professorial role at Occidental College – goading young theater artists to be louder, faster and funnier.

Gregory Nabours (he/him) lives and works in Los Angeles as a composer/lyricist and music director. His life in music has forayed into classical piano, jazz, film scoring, and choral music, with a focus on musical theater. He is the Resident Composer and a founding member of Coeurage Theatre Company. As a music director, Gregory’s work on the intimate theater production of The Color Purple earned him an Ovation Award, the LA Drama Critics Circle Award, the LA Weekly Award, and the NAACP Award for Best Musical Direction. Other credits include In the Heights, Thoroughly Modern Millie, Falsettos, Rent, The Wild Party, A New Brain, Spring Awakening, Into the Woods, Assassins, and The Full Monty. Current projects include music directing the immensely popular bi-monthly (Mostly) Musicals cabaret, in local appearances at The Write-Off Room, The Rockwell, Vitello’s and The Federal.

Run time: 1 hour 15 minutes, no intermission

Co-Presented with Coeurage Ensemble

Nov 15: RELEASE IT: BRAVE NEW WORLD
Creative Producer: Tiffany Adeline Cole
Cast: Tiffany Adeline Cole, Chayllce Brogdon, Paige Frappier, Alexandria Rossi, Clinton Roane, Gerry Tonella, Anthony Ji-Ahnte Sibert, Kelly Perez, Frazier Perez-Yadon, Frank Halbiger + Ensemble, Maura Mannle + Ensemble, Tia Janeine, Cici Harding, Gina Kelly

90 minutes (including one intermission)

Dec. 19: SANTA’S SACK: A RAUNCHY HOLIDAY REVUE
Curated by Charmin Ultra
Cast Coming Coon!

75 minutes, no intermission

Conceived, Written, and Performed by Paul Outlaw and Joe Seely

Paul Outlaw is a Los Angeles and Berlin-based multidisciplinary performing artist. Spanning an array of mediums including text-based drama, physical theater, performance art, spoken word and American popular music, his works confront the tangled web of societal constructs around race and gender and excavate the enduring legacies of white supremacy and patriarchal violence—both physical and psychological—that have marred the tapestry of Euro-American history. Paul has created an evolving series of performances under the banner of OutlawPlay; his solo theater works and numerous collaborations have been presented in the United States (including at LACMA, MOCA, REDCAT, the Getty, The Lab, Yale Union) and abroad (including at Maxim Gorki Theater/Berlin, Melkweg/Amsterdam and GES-2/V-A-C Foundation/Moscow). Paul is the recipient of various grants, fellowships and residencies, including a City of Los Angeles Individual Artist Fellowship and a Los Angeles County Performing Arts Recovery Grant. He played the title role in Pepe Danquart’s SCHWARZFAHRER, winner of the 1994 Academy Award for Best Live Action Short Film. Paul is one of the queer changemakers memorialized in One Institute’s 2021 exhibition, PRIDE PUBLICS: WORDS AND ACTIONS. outlawplay.com

Joe Seely is a Los Angeles-based performer and self-taught maker of theatrical objects, who has been creating effigies since the age of four. Before he could even read, Joe discovered puppets as objects through the rod puppet illustrations of German master puppeteer Hansjürgen Fettig. The central themes of Joe’s art are the American identity and the ways in which violence, both towards ourselves and others, has reduced our ability to value what exists outside our constructed identities. His experiences in and out of costume have led him to recognize that what we use to signify who we are is similar in construction to puppets and masks. Joe’s designs have won multiple awards from the LA Stage Alliance (Ovation Award), LA Critics Circle and LA Weekly. Joe has collaborated on projects with major art institutions in the region (LACMA, MOCA, LA Opera, Mark Taper Forum, among others) and with artists such as Asher Hartman, Nao Bustamante, Marcus Kuiland-Nazario, Johanna Went and Paul Outlaw. Joe has toured throughout the West Coast, and internationally with Zoo District (Ivan Franko Theater/Kyiv) and Emily Mast (Power Plant/Toronto). joeseely.com

Run time: 60 minutes, no intermission

Conceived and Curated by Brian Sonia-Wallace
in collaboration with the Pride Poets and West Hollywood Slam Team
Final Production Directed by Linda Ravenswood

Brian Sonia-Wallace (he/they) creates immersive poetry experiences internationally. He is the creator of RENT Poet and Pride Poets, and co-founder of the West Hollywood Slam Team. Brian was the 4th Poet Laureate of West Hollywood, and has been a poet-in-residence for Amtrak, Mall of America, and the National Parks. He is the author of The Poetry of Strangers (Harper Collins) and his work has been published in The Guardian, Rolling Stone, and American Poets. He teaches at the UCLA Extension Writers’ Program.

Run time: 90 minutes, no intermission