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LAWTF Empowerment Day Facilitator Spotlight #3

The Los Angeles Women's Theatre Festival

In Association

with

The Fremont Centre Theatre

is proud to present

The 2nd Annual Solo Performer

EMPOWERMENT DAY!

  

Saturday, August 23, 2014

 9:30 a.m. to 5:30 p.m.

(On-sight Registration 9:00 a.m.)

  

LAWTF will be highlighting all of its workshops and panels as we get closer to our exciting educational event and is kicking off LAWTF's  third spotlight with our workshop below:

  

HOW TO SUBMIT A WINNING PACKAGE

FOR A SOLO FESTIVAL

11:05 a.m. - 12:35 p.m.

(Workshop)

This returned workshop will cover the do's and don'ts participants need to know for submitting an impressive presentation of their work for a solo performance festival, from the application form to photographs and action shots, as well as learning to write a compelling cover letter. Attendees will learn to discern between a good DVD and bad DVD for submission and how to insure their demo is calibrated for viewing on a standard DVD player. Participants will learn what goes into an engaging high quality performance that the panelists are looking for when they review submitted work.

Facilitators: Elizabeth Wu screening panelist/actor/producer

Sarah Zitin screening panelist/author/actor/public speaker 

Elizabeth Wu (I'm Dop3!, Prison Is Where I Learned To Fly) is an artist, actor, producer, and a part of the LAWTF Festival Submission Screening Panel, as well as the Founder and Executive director of Serving Artist in Process (SAIPRO). Wu believes there is an artist in everyone in whatever field of endeavor. In this light, SAIPRO is dedicated to providing a supportive community where the individual feels safe and encouraged to grow through the arts, to develop the skills to express their art, to showcase their work, and to attune to the "spirit of the artist within." SAIPRO has produced a number of solo productions. Elizabeth Wu is also a board member of the Los Angeles Women's Theatre Festival.

Sarah Zitin is a holistic practitioner, Chinese herbalist, author, public speaker, actor and part of the LAWTF Festival Submission Screen Panel. For the past 25 years, Sarah Zitin has practiced several modalities of bodywork and energy healing, working to align others in all ways- physically, spiritually emotionally and mentally, enabling others to achieve optimum well-being. Now the author of a new book, "A Simple Guide to Immunity,"Zitin is working on educating people on the benefits of participating in one's own healing, creating a healthier, happier lifestyle. Sarah Zitin is a long-time friend and supporter of the Los Angeles Women's Theatre Festival as well as an annual member of the LAWTF Festival Submission Screening Panel. As a public speaker, artist and author, Zitin is excited to be a part of the 2nd Annual EMPOWERMENT DAY helping to further solo artists in creating both successful careers and more fulfilled lifestyles. 

EMPOWERMENT DAY offers a day full of information, training, and career advice from industry professionals for anyone seeking a career as a solo performer or contemplating theatrical production in Los Angeles. The day is designed to uplift, inspire, and educate local solo artists.

 Participants of EMPOWERMENT DAY 2013.

The 2nd Annual Solo Performer EMPOWERMENT DAY is happening again at the Fremont Centre Theatre on Saturday, August 23rd, 2014 located at 1000 Fremont Avenue, South Pasadena 91030.

We assure you, you won't want to miss this opportunity! Register Now!

EARLY BIRD DEADLINE: JULY 31st

EARLY BIRD REGISTRATION FEE: $75.00

For more information visit our website at www.lawtf.org or email us at lawtfspotlight@yahoo.com 

We look forward to seeing you there!

LAWTF's Empowerment Day 2014 Facilitator Spotlight #2!

The Los Angeles Women's Theatre Festival

In Association

with

The Fremont Centre Theatre

is proud to present

The 2nd Annual Solo Performer

EMPOWERMENT DAY!

  

Saturday, August 23, 2014

 9:30 a.m. to 5:30 p.m.

(On-sight Registration 9:00 a.m.)

  

LAWTF will be highlighting all of its workshops and panels as we get closer to our exciting educational event and is kicking off LAWTF's second spotlight for our workshop below:

  

TEAMWORK MAKES THE DREAM WORK
9:30 a.m. - 11:00 a.m.

This panel discussion will cover the professionals you need to make your solo show shine from the director and producer to lighting and sound; from costumes and dramaturge to marketing and publicity, not to mention the theatre you will perform in. You will learn how to create a supportive team that will make your dream show a reality! This panel discussion will be moderated by Karen A. Clark, with panelist Karen Aschenbach, Reggie Brown, Brandon Deese, Sky Palkowitz, Allison Queen and Shanae Sharon.

Karen A. Clark is a singer, songwriter, poet, performer, and a Senior Vice President who leads a Segment Marketing Strategy for City National Bank. Named one of LA's Top 20 Black Female Power Players in L.A. Business, by Focus Magazine in 2013, Clark's a reputable leader in the banking industry and making her mark promoting her LP, The Karen A. Clark Project!

Theatrically, Clark has played the lead in productions such as "Brixton Recovery," "Tambourines to Glory," "Wine in the Wilderness," and has been in ensemble casts for "Colored Girls," "Little Ham," "Ododo,"  and "The Wiz", to name a few. "The Women" is her second one woman theatrical show. The first was "A Corporate Affair," produced by the Los Angeles Women's Theatre Festival in 2008. Clark is a Board member with The Los Angeles Women's Theatre Festival, Duke Media Foundation,Educating Young Minds, and Streetlights. Locally, Karen A. Clark has been featured at such popular venues as The Long Beach Jazz Festival (Mainstage 2 years), Central Avenue Jazz Fest, Pip's, and the Los Angeles Women's Theatre Festival.  

Karen Aschenbach (Creative Process Coaching) is a writer, director, actor, and producer whose background includes theatrical work in New York, Connecticut, and Los Angeles, short films and independent features in San Francisco and Los Angeles, a video production company producing promotional media and educational products for Fortune 500 and Silicon Valley corporations, and start-ups. Aschenbach's work has been seen around the globe on television and in festivals from Japan to Croatia and throughout the U.S. She has written many screenplays and short stories, directed for stage and screen and has been coaching other artists for the past ten years. Aschenbach's Creative Process Coaching™ business, which starts with the admonition to "jump into your art", encourages her clients to show their true colors and to first hear then speak from the authenticity of their unique voice. Her motto is that she is an intuitive mirror to keep you true to YOUR vision.

Reginald D. Brown is a member of theDirectors Guild of America, Inc. and an accomplished television writer in the Writers Guild of America, West. His Reginald Brown Productions is a Signatory Company with the Directors Guild of America, Incand SAG/AFTRA.  Currently, Brown is serving as a Co-writer and Co-Director on The Last Mambo, a historical documentary about the evolution of Latin Jazz and Salsa Dance Fanatics in the San Francisco Bay area.

Brown is the writer/producer/director of A Profile in Courage: Linda L. Smith, based on Ms. Smith's 3 Volume Journal,"Love Letters To The Lord." Brown has written and directedGreat Women of Color, at the Whitefire Theatre in Sherman Oaks, and is the director of the musical Hattie, What I Need You To Know, starring Vickilyn Reynolds. Brown is a former Co-Chair of the DGA's African-American Steering Committee, and has spent the last 17 years as a Visiting Assistant Professor at theUniversity of California, Los Angeles teaching TV Production Workshops as well as an instructor in Cinema in the Bill Cosby Summer Digital Film Institute at the University of Southern California.  At present, he is an Instructor in Cinema and Media Arts at Los Angeles Southwest College.

Brandon Deese, with over eight years of experience in the traditional production and digital media space, looks ahead to create interactive platforms for storytellers of all ages. To date, Brandon has created and collaborated with networks such as ABC Family, HBO, NBC Universal, and, of course the Los Angeles Women's Theatre Festival.

Sky Palkowitz, known as "The Delusional Diva", is an avant-garde multimedia performance artist and character illusionist from New York.  She's performed around the country and all over Los Angeles, can be seen on TV, internet and film, and recently toured Southern CA playing Nurse in Romeo and Juliet with Shakespeare by the Sea in parks to over 25,000 people. Palkowitz just returned from the off-Broadway premiere of her solo show, Calling America: Don't Hang Up!!

Allison Queen is President/Owner of Queen Publicity, a full service public relations and publicity agency providing services and consultations to creative artists, businesses, non-profits, product launches, film and television productions, theatrical productions, book authors and more.  Prior to founding her company, Queen interned at CBS Television, Davidson Choy Publicity, and the American Civil Liberties Union. A native New Yorker, Queen graduated from UCLA and also holds a Law Degree. Queen Publicity is often retained by larger agencies on the East Coast and has a reputation for securing excellent media placements and delivering concrete results. 

Shanae Sharon (LAWTF Board of Directors) is a native of Philadelphia, PA who holds a BA in Theatre Arts from the University of Pittsburgh and is an alumna of the Lincoln Center Theater Director's Lab. Accepted into the Stage Directors and Choreographers Foundation Observership Program, Sharon was a founding member of the River View Players in Harlem and of the Redeye Theatre Project in Pittsburgh for which she directed several 24 hour plays. Additionally, Sharon has directed plays and stage readings for the Pittsburgh Playwrights Theatre, the National Black Theatre Festival, Black Theatre Network and co-directed a production of Annie for Frick International Studies. Sharon also directed the LAWTF 20th Anniversary Festival, A Perfect 20! and has also written a screenplay entitled, Timing which was selected for the 2009 National Association of Multi-Ethnicity in Communications (NAMIC) Writer's Workshop.

EMPOWERMENT DAY offers a day full of information, training, and career advice from industry professionals for anyone seeking a career as a solo performer or contemplating theatrical production in Los Angeles. The day is designed to uplift, inspire, and educate local solo artists.

 Participants of EMPOWERMENT DAY 2013 during the Hitting The Road With Your Solo Show workshop.

The 2nd Annual Solo Performer EMPOWERMENT DAY is happening again at the Fremont Centre Theatre on Saturday, August 23rd, 2014 located at 1000 Fremont Avenue, South Pasadena 91030.

We assure you, you won't want to miss this opportunity! Register Now!

EARLY BIRD DEADLINE: JULY 31st

EARLY BIRD REGISTRATION FEE: $75.00

For more information visit our website at www.lawtf.org or email us at lawtfspotlight@yahoo.com 

We look forward to seeing you there!

LAWTF's 2nd Annual Empowerment Day 2014 Workshop Facilitator Spotlight #1!

The Los Angeles Women's Theatre Festival

in association with

The Fremont Centre Theatre

is proud to present

The 2nd Annual Solo Performer

Empowerment Day!

  

Saturday, August 23, 2014

 9:00 a.m. to 5:30 p.m.

  

LAWTF will be highlighting its workshops and panels as we get closer to our exciting educational event and is kicking off LAWTF's first spotlights for our 9:30 -11:00 a.m. workshops below:

  

CREATING A SOLO SHOW

This workshop is designed to cover the solo show production process from thought to pen; covering such topics as one's motivations to write, creative visioning, owning one's voice, making the personal universal, creating a compelling story and determining the distinctions between a solo show and a solo play. This workshop event will be facilitated by Debra DeLiso, Iona Morris, and Terrie Silverman.

Debra DeLiso has been a theatre artist for over twenty-five years working as an actor, choreographer/dancer, director, playwright, and teacher. DeLiso has guided the writing and directed nearly 200 one-person shows at the American Academy of Dramatic Arts, USC, and in professional theatres. DeLiso thoroughly enjoys the challenging and personal work of taking actors through the writing process into performance. She has written two of her own solo performance pieces, one about her mother, one about the visionary dance artist Isadora Duncan. She also conceived the play Cock Tales, an evening of wickedly original male monologues from some of L.A.'s best playwrights which ran for 10 months in Hollywood.

Iona Morris (For You and M.O.I.S.T) is a producer, director, dramaturg and actor for over 25 years. Morris has currently penned three one-woman shows and has been a contributing writer and director to several others. Some of her many TV credits include roles on The District, Cold Case, Law & Order, Moesha, and General Hosptial. Her extensive voice-over work includes the original voice of Storm from the X-men cartoon series, Medusa in the Fantastic Four and Robbie Robinson's wife in Spiderman, just to name a few.

Terrie Silverman is a writer, solo-performer, director, Artist-in-Residence at Beyond Baroque Literary Arts and is the Founder of Creative Rites Workshops & Coaching. Silverman's been teaching writing and performance for fourteen years to groups and individuals to release your inner-critic, access your authentic voice and become a brave, moving storyteller. She also has a Solo-Show Master Class and has helped develop and direct a number of award-winning solo shows. Silverman loves helping people discover they have a voice and that their story matters. She's facilitated workshops for the California Arts Council, Santa Monica Cultural Affairs Department, the Museum of Contemporary Art, The City of West Hollywood, the Los Angeles Women's Theatre Festival, The West Hollywood Book Fair, Screen Actor's Guild Media Access, the Independent Writer's of Southern California, LACAMFT- Expressive Arts, UCLArts & Healing, Senior Arts Foundation and Women in Theatre.

This is a day full of career adivce from industry professionals for anyone seeking a career as a solo performer or contemplating theatrical production in Los Angeles and is desgined to uplift and inspire solo artists in the area.

 Participants of Empowerment Day 2013 during a workshop.

The 2nd Annual Solo Performer Empowerment Day is happening at the Fremont Centre Theatre on Saturday, August 23rd, 2014 located at 1000 Fremont Avenue, South Pasadena 91030 and we assure you, you won't want to miss this opportunity! Register Now!

EARLY BIRD DEADLINE: JULY 31st

EARLY BIRD REGISTRATION FEE: $75.00

For more information visit our website at www.lawtf.org or email us at lawtfspotlight@yahoo.com

We look forward to seeing you there!

SAVE THE DATE for LAWTF's 2nd ANNUAL EMPOWERMEN​T DAY at the FCT!

THE LOS ANGELES WOMEN'S THEATRE FESTIVAL

in association with

THE FREMONT CENTRE THEATRE

is proud to present 

The 2nd ANNUAL EMPOWERMENT DAY

  

Saturday, August 23, 2014

  

WHAT: 2nd Annual EMPOWERMENT DAY.

A full day of workshops and panels designed to empower and enhance the careers of solo performers in particular, and an event full of information of benefit to all performers.

  

WHO: Presented by Los Angeles Women's Theatre Festival (LAWTF) in association with the Fremont Centre Theatre (FCT).

  

WHERE: Fremont Centre Theatre, 1000 Fremont Ave. (at El Centro), South Pasadena, CA 91030. Ample free parking behind theatre.

  

WHEN: Saturday, August 23, 2014. From 9:00 a.m. - 5:30 p.m.

  

REGISTRATION: Early registration is $75.00 for the general public and $50.00 for students (school ID must be present for entry) which includes an all-day pass. The EARLY BIRD registration fee deadline is July 31st and will be $95.00 for all thereafter.

  

       

From left to right: Karen A. Clark (The Women), Estela Garcia (Remedios Varo: La Alquimista), and Karen Bankhead (Etta Mae Mumphries: And the Rest is History)

This event is a day full of career training from industry professionals, designed to give a boost to solo performers, but will also be of value to anyone contemplating theatrical production in Los Angeles or who wish to tour. Attendees will have a choice among seven workshops and panels. 

   

 From left to right: Sloan Robinson (BANANAS! A Day In The Life of Josephine Baker) and Tia Matza (Grief and Grace)

  

Founded in 1993 by Adilah Barnes and Miriam Reed, LAWTF holds the distinction of being the oldest Annual Solo Festival in Los Angeles celebrating powerful women performers. LAWTF is a critically-acclaimed international festival which has produced close to 500 extraordinary solo artists from around the globe. These multicultural and multi-disciplined artists represent such diverse disciplines as theatre, dance, storytelling, performance art, performance poetry, spoken word, mime, aerialism, music, song, and stand-up comedy.

  

All in all, this is the most information you will find about the production of solo performance at one time in one place. Come out, Support and Enjoy!

For more information please visit our website at www.lawtf.org or contact our office at 818.760.0408 or lawtfspotlight@yahoo.com 

  

           

From left to right: Jennifer S. Jones (Appearance of Life), Dacyl Acevedo (Will Work For) and Lindsay Halladay (WASP)

We hope to see you there!

LAWTF is Now Accepting Submissions for Festival 2015

The Los Angeles Women's Theatre Festival

is Now Accepting Submissions for the

22nd Annual Festival! 

March 26 - 29, 2015

To submit for Festival 2015, please send a hard copy of your photograph, cover letter, resume, and any additional supporting materials with your DVD and $35.00 submissions fee to LAWTF no later than August 31, 2014 via FedEx or US Mail.

For any additional information please contact LAWTF by email at lawtfspotlight@yahoo.com or by phone at (818) 760-0408.

We look forward to your submissions!

LAWTF is Now Accepting Applications for the Paid Marketing and Development Summer Intern!

The Los Angeles Women's Theatre Festival

is Now Accepting Applications for the

LAWTF Marketing and Development

Summer Intern!

What: The Los Angeles County Arts Internship Program provides 10-week paid summer internships (40 hours/week) to eligible undergraduate college students.

Students are paid $400/week to work in nonprofit literary, performing and presenting arts organizations and municipal arts agencies throughout Los Angeles County.

Interns also participate in additional educational components provided by the Arts Commission. 

Who: To be eligible to participate, students must meet the following criteria: 

·  Enrolled in a community college, four-year college or university program, and have completed at least one semester by June 1, 2014. 

·  Completed at least one semester of college by June 1, 2014or will complete their undergraduate degree between May 1 - September 1, 2014 in order to be eligible to participate. 

·  Proof of residency (state issued ID or driver license) and college transcripts are required. 

·  Interested students are not required to have demonstrated a previous commitment to the arts. 

·  Students must either reside in Los Angeles County or attend school in Los Angeles County. 

Candidates can be sought from all areas of undergraduate study and are not required to have demonstrated a previous commitment to the arts.

All college students regardless of race, religion, sex, national origin, age, sexual orientation, or disability who meet the above criteria are eligible to apply to participate in the Los Angeles County Arts Internship Program. Students invited to participate in the program must provide a copy of their college transcripts verifying undergraduate enrollment.

Students who have previously participated in the Los Angeles County Arts Internship Program are not eligible to participate a second time. 

When: This internship program takes place between June and August 2014. Interns will work for a specified ten-week period. 

How: Interested students should send their cover letter, resume and contact information to lawtfspotlight@yahoo.com.

Interested students should apply as soon as positions are posted as there is stiff competition for a limited number of internships. 

Inquiries: For further information, visit the Arts Commission's Web site or email: internship@arts.lacounty.gov. Or contact LAWTF directly by phone at (818) 760-0408 or by email at lawtfspotlight.com.