LAWTF Receives Its 12th Summer Internship Grant From The LACAC!

    LAWTF Receives Its 12th Summer Internship Grant From The Los Angeles County Arts Commission

Past LACAC Summer Interns pose for a photo

The Los Angeles Women's Theatre Festival is pleased to announce a Los Angeles County Arts Commission (LACAC) Summer Internship Grant for the 12th year in a row. This program is funded by the Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors and was established in 2000. This summer's program is placing college students in 120 non-profit agencies with 132 available positions. 

LAWTF is now accepting applications for the Los Angeles County Arts Commission's Summer Internship Program. Applicants must be currently enrolled undergraduate students who reside or attend college in Los Angeles County. Interested students are encouraged to apply as soon as possible and before the deadline of May 8th for this highly competitive paid position. The LACAC Summer Internship Program will begin as early as June 5th. Students will work 10 weeks for 40 hours per week.

For eligibility requirements and application guidelines, please visit www.lacountyarts.org or call (818) 760-0408 for more information on LAWTF's Marketing/Development Intern position.

BRAVA! A Day of Theatre- Performer Spotlight #4 Alina Cenal!

The Los Angeles Women's Theatre Festival

is proud to present

BRAVA!

"A Day of Theatre"

Sunday, April 23, 2017

The Macha Theatre

1107 N Kings Rd.

West Hollywood, CA 90069

The Los Angeles Women's Theatre Festival (LAWTF) marks 24 years of producing well over 500 extraordinary multicultural and multidisciplinary solo performers from around the globe.

  

Entertainment for the day of 

Sunday, April 23th, 2017, 5:30pm  

will include:

           

Alina Cenal

"Words from a Cuban Father"

Alina Cenal is a Cuban American performer, director, teacher and writer whose career extends over 35 years in television, theater, and film. Alina has created a one woman show "Words From a Cuban Father": mambo, carnival, revolution, Fidel and my father, Miami, hotdogs,drag-queens, the circus, discos, Hollywood, fun music and dance highlight her bilingual experience of being yanked from her native Cuba as a child and yearning to return. The strong presence of her proud father guides her through the American  cultural landscape. 

Cenal has been dancing through life with energy and passion that she also brings to her storytelling, teaching, and performances. Immersed in the music and dance of her native Cuba, she was raised in Miami and later attended the University of South Florida as a dance major. She has extensive professional experience of over 30 years in film, television, and theater.

Some TV credits include: The Shield, Judging Amy, Diagnosis Murder, Matlock, Webster, and Days of our Lives. Some theater credits: A Chorus Line, A Touch of a Poet, Cabaret, and In Search of Me. Her credits also include performing and teaching for the Music Center Education Division of Los Angeles and the nationally touring children's theater troupe, We Tell Stories.

Teaching children life skills through the magic of theater has been the center of Cenal's work. She founded Kids Acting Out-West, 18 years ago, bringing theater to after-school curriculum and summer camps. Together with her company, the Ventura County's Artist-in-the-Classroom Program, and Alina Latina, her bilingual storytelling shows, she works with hundreds of children weekly.

Cenal and her fun professional instructors have created an exciting theater program, immersing the children in their own creative process. Her energy and love for the children sets the tone for the entire experience.

To see Alina Cenal's energetic full performance and other dynamic solo shows, please join us for the 2nd Annual Brava "A Day of Theatre" to be held at the Macha Theatre in West Hollywood.

For tickets and any additional information, please call LAWTF at (818) 760-0408, visit our website at www.lawtf.org or to purchase tickets, click here.

                                             We hope to see you there! 

Empowerment Day Interview with Facilitator: Valeri Ross

VALERI ROSS

"Submitting a Winning Package for a Solo Festival" (Co-Facilitator)

Q: Why is it important to be a part of LAWTF’s EMPOWERMENT DAY?

A: The business of art is how we insure that our art continues. It is our window into when we should reach outside ourselves to share our work and when we should go inside ourselves to create new work. Sharing and Creating without the one, the other falls flat.

Q: Have you participated before, and if so, in what capacity?

A: Yes, I have participated once before for the same workshop, "Submitting a Winning Package for a Solo Festival."

Q: What skills do you feel you bring for the role you will offer for LAWTF’s EMPOWERMENT DAY?

A: I have been a LAWTF Screening Panelist for 10 years and an artist for 40.  I am a working union actor and I have had my own successful one person show as well as understudying for Adilah Barnes' "I Am That I Am - Woman, Black".

EMPOWERMENT DAY 2015 facilitators, panelists and participants.

 EMPOWERMENT DAY 2015 facilitators, panelists and participants.

Q: Why do you feel it important that solo artists have such a forum for their work?

A: Solo artists are a special lot.  When you can command the stage on your own; often writing, directing and performing; when you can bring your message in a coffee shop or an auditorium, when you bring so much and ask so little - that is art that wants to be shared, that has a compelling story to tell.  We would do well to listen.

Q: What areas will be covered in your workshop/panel?

A: How to submit your application for the LAWTF from the point of view of the Screening Panelists.

Q: Anything else you would like to add?

A: Proud to be a part of the LAWTF team...

Be Well,

Valeri