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THE GREEN ROOM | AS YOU LIKE IT | FT. Mel Ng (Costume Designer), Cha See (Lighting Designer) and ien DeNio (Sound Designer)

Join us this week as we take you into our Green Room where you’ll hear from writers, directors and designers about their process from the page to opening night, moderated by Director of Artistic Development, Gabe Greene. In this episode we’ll be chatting with Costume Designer Mel Ng, Lighting Designer Cha See and Sound Designer ien DeNio. This session was recorded in front of a live audience on November 18, 2022.

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A pre-recorded conversation about As You Like It and creating Queer theatre now, hosted by Diversionary Theatre | Join us for a conversation with prominent, award-winning and fabulous Queer artists about making Queer theatre now, reimagining Shakespeare, and creating a “gender-ful” world for La Jolla Playhouse’s upcoming production of As You Like It – a vibrant world that is inviting, welcoming and celebratory of all gender possibilities.

This panel discussion was recorded in front of a live audience on October 24, 2022. It features co-directors of As You Like It Christopher Ashley and Will Davis, dramaturg and culture commentator Regina Victor and Diversionary Theatre Executive Artistic Director Matt Morrow.

AS YOU LIKE IT Playing Nov 15 - Dec 11: https://bit.ly/BuyASYLJP

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About the Panelists
Christopher Ashley (he/his), co-director of As You Like It, is a Tony Award-winning director and has served as La Jolla Playhouse’s Rich Family Artistic Director since 2007.

Will Davis (he/his), co-director of As You Like It, is a transgender director and choreographer focused on physically adventurous work for the stage, and a leader, mentor, advocate and educator.

Matt Morrow (he/her/they) joined Diversionary Theatre as Executive Artistic Director in 2014 and is an award-winning director and arts leader.

Regina Victor (they/them/pharoah) is dramaturg for As You Like It, and is a director, cultural designer and critic. 

THE GREEN ROOM | KRISTINA WONG, SWEATSHOP OVERLORD | DIRECTOR CHAY YEW

Join us this week as we take you into our Green Room where you’ll hear from writers, directors and designers about their process from the page to opening night, moderated by Director of Artistic Development, Gabe Greene. In this episode we’ll be chatting with Chay Yew, director of KRISTINA WONG, SWEATSHOP OVERLORD. This session was recorded in front of a live audience on September 23, 2022.

KRISTINA WONG, SWEATSHOP OVERLORD Playing Now - Oct 16: https://bit.ly/BuySweatshopLJP

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COFFEE WITH THE PLAYHOUSE | WOW 2022

WOW Fest 2022 coming April 21-24. Book your tix: https://bit.ly/WOWFest2022YT
These morning chats are a way to connect with us, virtually, as our very own Christopher Ashley shares behind-the-scenes stories, interviews artists and previews what is new and next at the Playhouse. Listen in as Christopher talks to three remarkable artists featured in the upcoming WOW Festival, April 21-24 at ARTS DISTRICT Liberty Station: David Danzon, Artistic Director of CORPUS and co-creator/performer in La Bulle; Patrice Amon, Artistic Director of TuYo Theatre and writer of On Her Shoulders We Stand; and Dominique Salerno, creator/performer for The Box Show.

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Veteran Playwrights Workshop (VPW) Live Readings, Fall 2021
In partnership with So Say We All

The Playhouse’s Veterans Playwriting Workshop (VPW) is a 10-week writing program that gives veterans the opportunity to develop their playwriting skills. Led by such renowned playwrights/veterans as Maurice Decaul and Justin Hudnall, the workshop explores various genres and methods of playwriting and storytelling techniques. VPW is open to veterans, those on active duty, military spouses and national interpreters.

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PROGRAM OF READINGS:
"Don’t That Beat All?" by Alyce Smith Cooper
"Three Monologues" by John Antonov
"Thai Restaurant"  by Maideline Sanchez
"The Dispensary" by Daryl “Scooter” Davis
"Salsa Night" by Francisco Martinezcuello
"The Eulogy" by Brett Morris
"Coffee, Tea, or COVID" by Stephanie Burnham

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COFFEE WITH THE PLAYHOUSE: to the yellow house | Neel Keller, Kimber Lee, Melissa Nalbach

Listen in as Christopher talks with: to the yellow house playwright Kimber Lee, whose plays include untitled f*ck m*ss s**gon play, tokyo fish story, brownsville song (b-side for tray) and different words for the same thing; director Neel Keller, who is returning to the Playhouse, where he previously served as Associate Artistic Director and directed The School for Wives, Light Up the Sky, Loot, Diva and The Cosmonaut's Last Message to the Woman He Once Loved in the Former Soviet Union; and the show's scenic charge artist Melissa Nalbach, a production team member with the Playhouse for the last six years who'll be sharing some of the inside scoop on bringing to the yellow house to life on stage!

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COFFEE WITH THE PLAYHOUSE | Charlayne Woodard

These morning chats are a way to connect with us, virtually, every month as our very own Christopher Ashley shares behind-the-scenes stories, interviews artists and previews what is new and next at the Playhouse.

Listen in as Christopher talks to Charlayne Woodard, playwright and co-star of The Garden, the world-premiere play that opens our 2021/2022 Season. Charlayne is a two-time Obie Award winner and a Tony Award nominee. Her Broadway credits include Ain't Misbehavin' (original cast) and Hair (revival), and she has appeared in numerous Off-Broadway productions, such as "Daddy", Hamlet, WAR and The Substance of Fire. Her La Jolla Playhouse credits include A Midsummer Night's Dream, The Night Watcher (actor and playwright), Pretty Fire (actor and playwright), The Good Person of Setzuan and Shout Up a Morning, among others. She plays Rhonda in this season of HBO’s In Treatment and has had recurring roles on Pose, Prodigal Son and Sneaky Pete in recent years. She has also starred in the movies Glass, Sunshine State, Unbreakable and The Crucible, to name a few.

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COFFEE WITH THE PLAYHOUSE | Listen in as Christopher talks about bringing life to the stories on stage with extraordinary lighting designers of past Playhouse productions: Lap Chi Chu, whose multiple award-winning design career spanning a plethora of shows at acclaimed regional theatres includes the Playhouse's The Luckiest, The Year to Come, Queens, At the Old Place, Blueprints to Freedom, The Orphan of Zhao and Ruined; Natasha Katz, whose vision has been behind some of the most celebrated Broadway musicals, has worked on Diana (coming to Netflix this October before officially opening onstage in NYC in December); and Amanda Zieve, a Hamilton vet who was an associate lighting designer for Escape to Margaritaville, Hollywood, The Hunchback of Notre Dame and Chasing the Song prior to taking the helm for Put Your House in Order.

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THE GOURD By Jim Ruland
DIRECTOR: Melissa Coleman-Reed
Created by So Say We All 

In “The Gourd,” we meet Trevor, a strugglingly-sober Los Angeles native who gets roped into caring for his friends’ engorged garden while they enjoy a couples retreat in Paris. As pets in the neighborhood go missing, Trevor realizes that neither the zucchinis, nor the residents, are what they seem.

NARRATOR - Victor Morris
TREVOR - Dallas McLaughlin
YOUNG TREVOR - Thomas Morrison
DALLAS - Salomon Maya
RICHARD (TREVOR’S DAD) - Jake Arky
GEORGE (SALESMAN) - John Padilla
CAROL (NEIGHBOR) - Alyssa Austin
YOUNG MAN (NEIGHBOR) - Patrick Mayuyu
OLD WOMAN (NEIGHBOR) - Yolanda Franklin

Scoring and SFX for all episodes: Scott Paulson
Intro theme: Kurt Kohnen of AM/FM Music
Outro theme: Daniel Schraer

LISTEN WITH THE LIGHTS OFF: Intelligent, original and unsettling, this new take on the radio drama features stories from diverse writers who will have listeners on the edge of their seats. Twisted up in paranoia, magical realism, ghosts, monsters, sibling rivalry, and even earth death, Listen With The Lights Off takes patrons to wholly unexpected worlds – sometimes funny, sometimes disturbing, but always memorable, and eerily plausible. These fictional short plays, adapted from So Say We All’s literary horror anthologies Black Candies, will be brought to audio reality.

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COFFEE WITH THE PLAYHOUSE LIVE | It's been almost a year since the Playhouse went dark due to the pandemic. The musical Fly was on the Weiss Stage at that time and had just officially opened its run when the production, to everyone's deep regret, had to close.

Listen in as Christopher Ashley catches up with two of Fly's leads: Storm Lever, who was our "Wendy," dazzled as "Duckling Donna" in the Playhouse-born Broadway musical SUMMER: The Donna Summer Musical and was a cast member of another Playhouse show, Freaky Friday; and Eric Anderson, who starred as "Hook" and is a stage and screen actor who has appeared in Broadway's Pretty Woman, Waitress and Kinky Boots as well as TV/film including The Greatest Showman and The Good Wife.

We'll also be talking with Anjanette Maraya-Ramey, founder and CEO of Chula Vista-based Maraya Performing Arts and choreographer behind the upcoming Digital WOW dance film with spoken word, Towards Belonging.

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