LAFPI

Los Angeles Women’s Theatre Festival presents solo female actor/playwrights performing their own works.

Friday, March 28 at 8 p.m.

MAGGIE CEE in Ladies at a Gay Girls’ Bar: 1938-1969. This dance/theatre piece explores the strength and determination of women who paved the way for the Queer Rights Movement by creating space to be themselves out of sheer necessity.

JANICE CRENETI in My Year of Saying No. During Covid-19, a woman’s journey rejects patriarchy, perfection, and guilt to find her way back to herself.

SMITA RUSSELL in Odds Are. This autobiographical story navigates the tumultuous terrain of multiple miscarriages as told through the lenses of honesty, humor, and curiosity.

Saturday, March 29 at 3 p.m.

VANESSA ADAMS HARRIS in Rosa Parks

            HOPE LEVY in The Connie Converse Universe. In August of 1974 after turning 50, Connie Converse, the first female modern folk singer-songwriter wrote a cryptic letter to loved ones and mysteriously was never to be seen again.

MELISSA LUGO in For You. A story that weaves through grief, addiction, and the bond between mothers and daughters.

Saturday, March 29 at 8 p.m.

MAYURI BHANDARI in The Anti-Yogi. This blended show of yoga, dance, live percussion, and poetry peels back the yoga mat to reveal the recolonization and commercialization of yoga in the West and nationalization in the East.

LAURA ELAINE ELLIS in A Black Woman’s Truth. This poetic dance piece explores the many dimensions of the Black Woman.

CAROLINE HAWTHORNE in The iPhone Arias. The mezzo-soprano singer recounts her chaotic relationship through a cell phone.

SIGUTE MILLER in Tragic Magic. The story of someone who most of her life tries to balance the good girl versus the party animal in her wild ride from addiction to recovery,  and ultimately finds redemption and triumph.

This event will include ASL (American Sign Language) interpretation.

Sunday, March 30 at 3 p.m.

LIZA DEALEY-THOMASON in Supernova. A fanciful musical excerpt that explores the need to be the hero who tries to take care of everyone else and ultimately arrives at the celebration of the joy of taking care of self.

SHARON NYREE WILLIAMS in Legacy. A poet’s explanation of her life’s journey honoring family legacy, standing firmly in the present and envisioning the future.

Sunday, March 30 at 7 p.m. T

KATIE CHIN in Holy Shitake! A Wok Star Is Born. Raised by a seamstress mother turned successful and well-known chef, Katie follows in her mother’s footsteps to also become a Wok Star in the culinary world.

DEE FREEMAN in Poison Gun. A six-year-old remembers being placed in the impossible position of telling what she knew about her grandfather’s secret to authorities in the Deep South.

VICTORIA KELLEHER in Daddy James. This Gen-X-er who was raised on hose water and neglect, finds her life is changed after a “23 and Me” DNA identity test.

ALICE MANNING in Manning’s Madhouse. Alice weaves both hilarious and traumatic memories of her family with two parents and nine children living in three bedrooms and 1.5 bathrooms on Allison Road in Cleveland, Ohio.

Fri. at 8:00, Sat. at 3:00 and 8:00, Sun. at 3:00 and 7:00.

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