Every movement has to have a beginning; the Los Angeles Female Playwrights Initiative began with these two ladies, Laura Annawyn Shamas and Jennie Webb. This conversation originally appeared under the title “Taking Initiative” on LA STAGE Times. It is the beginning of a periodic content sharing relationship between LA FPI and LA STAGE Alliance. It’s … Continue reading Conversation with: Laura Annawyn Shamas and Jennie Webb…
Know a female or FPI-friendly theater, company or artist? Contact us at [email protected]. Navigating “The Body’s Midnight” by Brenda Varda Welcome to the literary landscape of The Body’s Midnight by Tira Palmquist. This world premiere, a co-production of IAMA and Boston Court and directed by Jessica Kubzansky, is a delicately interwoven script with surprising, beautiful and challenging moments. I … Continue reading The FPI Files
We like to serve as a springboard to help LA-area theatermakers connect to female playwrights and theater artists, a starting point for women artists to investigate opportunities locally, and a source for theatergoers who want to support the work of women onstage. If you are a female theater artist, you ARE a resource: Send us your … Continue reading Resources
Meet LAFPI’s Persons of Interest – voices at the forefront of the movement, and artists working behind the scenes: Tiffany Antone, Jennifer Bobiwash, Debbie Bolsky, Robin Byrd, Elena Campbell-Martínez, Chris Farah, Kitty Felde, Diane Grant, Leelee Jackson, Janice Kennedy, Kristen Lazarian, Hannah Marie Lloyd, Elana Luo, Rasika Mathur, Alison Minami, Katherine Murphy, Nakasha Norwood, Violet … Continue reading FPI Profiles
By Analyn Revilla The First Manifesto of the Cocktail Nation:We, the Citizens of the Cocktail Nation, do hereby declare our independence from the dessicated horde of mummified uniformity – our freedom from an existence of abject swinglessness. We pledge to revolt against the void of dictated sobriety and to cultivate not riches but richness, swankness, … Continue reading “Revival” by Carla Neuss
Playwright, Screenwriter and Director Sara Israel was one of our first bloggers here at LA FPI. Blogs by Sara. (https://lafpi.com/author/sara-israel/). She is also a filmmaker. The thing I like most about Sara is her focus on her art. It is intense and contagious; you talk to her you will walk away inspired. We miss her … Continue reading Theater and Film: Sara Israel
This blog is not about the latest ad campaign from the Irish Tourism Board. Hello LAFPI, I’m back blogging. This is my 13th week blogging for LAFPI, and thirteen is a good number for me. No, not superstitious at all. Happy Martin Luther King Jr. Day. Also Happy Inauguration Day. Back on January 12th, … Continue reading The Gathering
Sometimes I feel as if my timing is off. I miss my freeways exits. Miss my lunch. Miss events. Miss the post office. Miss calling family in other time zones. Then I sit down to write and all the goofy day-to-day stuff doesn’t matter anymore. I fall right in sync with the world I am … Continue reading Timing…
We received great feedback from the first Ask A Literary Manager, and based on Staci’s comment I asked her to elaborate. Here is the original comment: By Staci Swedeen, September 14, 2011 @ 3:39 pm Excellent feedback for playwrights! I’ve been the Literary Manager of Penguin Repetory Theatre, 30 miles north of New York City, … Continue reading Ask a Literary Manager 2
