90026 : Echo Park $10 and a Tambourine
Written by: Mildred Inez Lewis
Directed By: Gigi Bermingham
Episode Available: May 20, 2021
Directed By: Gigi Bermingham
Episode Available: May 20, 2021
Broadcasting live on the radio from the Angelus Temple, famed 1920s evangelist Aimee Semple McPherson is forced to defend her past, her present and the future of Los Angeles itself when she entertains two visitors, one alive and one dead. Religion, power and celebrity are all up for grabs in this peek into the city’s early days.
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Series Host – Ramón de Ocampo
Audio Producer, Sound Designer, and Foley Artist – Jeff Gardner
Original Music – Ellen Mandel
Production Stage Manager – Taylor Anne Cullen
Audio Editor – Diego Tapia
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Cast
Eve Gordon*
Aimee Semple McPherson
EVE GORDON (Aimee Semple McPherson): At ANTAEUS: Diana of Dobson’s, As You Like It, Picnic, The Curse of Oedipus, You Can’t Take It With You, Peace in Our Time, The Autumn Garden. Other Theater: Open House (Skylight Theatre); The Ugly One (EST/LA); The End of the Day (Coast Playhouse); Candide (Goodman Theatre); Hang On To Me (Guthrie Theatre, Peter Sellars); Africanis Instructus (Festival d’Automne, Richard Foreman); Measure for Measure (Yale Repertory Theatre, John Madden); others. TV/FILM: Felicity; Honey We Shrunk Ourselves; Big Little Lies; Irresistible, Don’t Trust the B in Apt 23, others. Training: Brown University and Yale School of Drama.
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Leonard Earl Howze
William J. Seymour
Theater: Salvage (The Lounge Theatre); Fences (Lone Tree Arts Center). TV/Film: Antwone Fisher, Barbershop, Kevin Can Wait, Brave New Jersey, Memphis Beat, Shameless, Live Cargo, The Ringer, True Memoirs of an International Assassin, The Lone Ranger. Training: B.F.A., S.U.N.Y. Purchase College. Member: SAG/AFTRA, AEA.
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Mike McShane*
William Mulholland
Production Team
Gigi Bermingham
Director
At ANTAEUS: Glass Menagerie, Native Son, Cloud 9, Picnic, The Liar, The Seagull, Tonight at 8:30, Mother Courage, Pera Palas, Trial By Jury; and directed The Importance of Being Earnest and You Can’t Take It With You. OTHER STAGE: Pasadena Playhouse, Old Globe, Kirk Douglas Theatre, La Mirada, ETC Santa Barbara, Rubicon, MainStreet, Skylight, Blank, Odyssey, Boston Court, Playwrights’ Arena, and New York’s Public Theatre. FILM: Black Panther: Wakanda Forever, Amsterdam, Alex and Emma, etc. TV: Recurring on NCIS: Origins, Platonic, Loot, Chicago Fire, Clipped; guest appearances include: Hacks, The Last Thing He Told Me, 9-1-1 Lone Star, Terminal List, S.W.A.T., American Horror Story, Jane the Virgin, etc. 2013 L.A. Stage Alliance Ovation Award for Leading Actress for portrayal of Maria Callas in Master Class at International City Long Beach; and L.A. Drama Critics Circle Natalie Schafer Award and an Ovation for Solo Performance for her solo comedy Non-Vital Organs. Gigi coaches actors and is a career mentor. gigibermingham.com
Mildred Inez Lewis
Writer
MILDRED INEZ LEWIS (Writer): The Museum Annex (Central Works); The Last Ride (Company of Angels); CowGirls (EST-LA, Everyday Inferno, William Inge Playwriting Festival); Submerged (Actors Circle Ensemble, Goodly Frame). (Writer/Director) Can Also Play (Outfest Fusion, Outfest), left (Reel Rasquache, San Francisco African American Film Festival, Santa Barbara African American Film Festival). Training: HB Studios, B.A. from Oberlin College; M.F.A. & M.A. from UCLA. Member: Dramatists Guild, Company of Angels, Ensemble Studio Theatre - Los Angeles Playwrights Unit, Playground - LA. Awards: L.B. Williams Playwriting Contest, Humanitas’ PLAY LA, Samuel Goldwyn Screenwriting Award. Publications: Applause 10 Minute Plays 2020, Breathe Fire Literary Magazine. Extinction Rebellion.