Events - LA FPI

We currently meet quarterly for LA FPI Gatherings (+ Micro-Reads!) at Samuel French Bookshop, organize events like LA FPI Nights at the theater, and have other plans up our collective sleeves.

Mark your calendars: Tuesday, September 18th, for LA FPI Night at the Geffen Playhouse: The Cake!

And we’ll see you on Saturday, Sept. 8th, 1-4pm

It’s our next Gathering at Samuel French where we’ll chat and connect, eat and drink… and scheme about what’s ahead.

BRING:

Snacks and/or drinks to share
Questions and ideas to scheme
1 page of your writing to be read aloud as a Micro-Read (if you’re a female writer!)

Click Here for Micro-Reads Guidelines

Also bring your friends; everyone is welcome – artists, activists & theater lovers!

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PLACE:

Samuel French 7623 Sunset Bl (east of Fairfax) in Hollywood

Thanks to Joyce Mehess and crew for opening up the bookshop’s fabulous Green Room for food, wine, connections and Micro-Reads.

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Be sure to grab your tickets while you can to our next LA FPI Night at the Geffen: Tuesday, September 18th for THE CAKE, written by Bekah Brunstetter and directed by Jennifer Chambers.

Starting at 7pm, we’ll enjoy drinks in the lobby with fellow writers as well as Geffen audience members. who (surprise!) are curious about and want to hear from female playwrights!

Exclusive LA FPI ticket offer for THE CAKE: Code IDOLAFPI at www.geffenplayhouse.org/the-cake or call 310.208.5454 for $25 tickets ($17 plus fee). On the LA FPI Night, your ticket includes a free drink coupon! (Stop by the table in the lobby, which will be surrounded by fabulous women. 😉 )

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Our LA FPI Nights the Geffen are a great success: Instigators joined us in June for SKELETON CREW by Dominique Morisseau, directed by Patricia McGregor and in February, 2018 for IRONBOUND by Martyna Majok, directed by Tyne Rafaeli.

It was terrific to bring together women playwrights, women directors and audience members before the show, enjoy the performance then in the case of IRONBOUND, stay for a talkback with the show’s arstists.

We were proud to be East West Players’ Community Partner in 2016 for their production of Leah Nanako Winkler’s KENTUCKY, directed by Deena Selenow; LA FPI Night at EWP included a fab female playwright/director mixer.

And we had a blast in 2015 at our LA FPI Nights at Pasadena Playhouse, bringing together groups of up to 77 for Vanessa Claire Stewart’s STONEFACE, Diana Son’s TOP KISS & REAL WOMEN HAVE CURVES by Josefina López. Thanks so much to Seema Sueko and her crew for making these happen.

Do you have any ideas for companies or productions to approach? We want to connect with theatermakers, share our work, and fill the house to deliver the message, “It Pays to Produce Plays by Women!”

For more info go to our Facebook Page, check us out Instagram and join our Twitter conversation.

THANKS! to those of you who joined us in 2013/14 for Tactical Reads, produced by The Vagrancy, to Atwater Crossing for kicking the program off, and to Rogue Machine Theatre, Son of Semele Ensemble, The Working Stage, Park La Brea, studio/stage & Theatre Asylum for giving shelter.

Numbers TR — NUMBERS by Mar Gomez Glez, directed by Brenda Varda

MJ 2 TR — MICHAEL JACKSON IS DEAD (Hee Hee) by Rachel Skytt, directed by Reena Dutt

Liar Paradox TR — THE LIAR PARADOX by Kristin Idaszak, directed by Sabina Ptasznik – post-read discussion at Theatre Asylum with Cort Brinkerhoff

1234039_437976032985883_1707572684_n — WORD OF THE DAY by Katherine Murphy, directed by Laura Steinroeder

A Song for a Surfer — A SONG FOR A SURFER by Callan Stout, directed by Katie Witkowski – with Cort Brinkerhoff at SOSE

Nina Harada+Tamika Katon-Donegal TR — MY FIRST, MY FIST, MY BLEEDING, SEEDED SPIRIT by Megan Breen, directed by Caitlin Hart at studio/stage

Director Sarah Doyle & Jennifer Maisel after OUT OF ORBIT Tactical Read — Director Sarah Doyle and playwright Jennifer Maisel discuss OUT OF ORBIT after the read at The Working Stage

Nov TR — Mary F. Casey’s THE ACTUAL MOMENT IN TIME BOB ROGERS FOUND LOVE, directed by Sabina Ptasznik, at SOSE

TacticalRM2 — Sabina Ptasznik leads the discussion after Nancy Beverly’s HANDCRAFTED HEALING at RMT

Cindy Marie Jenkins captures Paula Cizmar’s STRAWBERRY at ATX – an incredible start to the series!

Got ideas and energy to spearhead something new in terms of Events? We’re here to help you make it happen!

Contact lafpi.updates@gmail.com.

Check out some familiar faces at Tactical Reads and LA FPI Events…

422056_352106094830043_125328664174455_1087879_1879376995_n — Thanks to Gethsemane Church for being such gracious hosts for our meetings in 2012!

Cheers to those of you who joined us for LA FPI’s first “BYO Mix” Mixer in 2010, and a big thank you to NoHo’s Eclectic Company Theatre for hosting.

Thanks to Gethsemane Church for being such gracious hosts in 2012!

Resize of IMG_2182 — Many thanks to instigators who helped us move forward at our Spring Gathering in May, 2011 and to the very FPI-friendly Theatricum Botanicum for hosting.

Thanks again to Brenda Varda and wordspace for hosting our 1st LA FPI Gathering of 2011 in February… and to Cindy Marie Jenkins for her super online networking workshop.

(No, it’s not a secret! If you ask nicely, we’ll tell you all about our candle-lit – and wine-infused! – Outreach & Planning Meeting in January, 2011.) Great energy, ladies, and thanks so much to 55 Degree Wine in Atwater Village! Thanks to all of you who joined us for the 4th LA FPI Gathering in October, 2010 and to Rogue Machine for hosting!

Click Here if you’d like to help us arrange FPI Meets, Special Offers, Discounts and group theater-going opportunities!

LAFPI-circle(lo-res) — Photo by Larry Dean Harris

On we go! Our next goal is to arrange a series of “theater mixers” to introduce more women playwrights to theatermakers; these receptions will include other female and male theater artists.

We’d love to find someone to take charge and facilitate theater-going groups in the LA area to support female-authored plays onstage. (Women at Work Onstage) And we can tie some of these events to our “mixers,” held to recognize a theater that’s producing work by a women playwright.

LA FPI Spotlight

Kudos to Los Angeles’ Native Voices at the Autry. Founded in 1999, Native Voices is devoted to developing and producing new works for the stage by Native American and First Nation playwrights. About 70% of the works Native Voices has supported have been written by women. Photo by Stephanie Lein Walseth Used by permission