JOIN US FOR OUR FIRST LIVE, IN-PERSON PERFORMANCE OF THE SEASON!
Antaeus Theatre Company presents a free live reading of “90027: Griffith Park - The Fire In-Between” by Peppur Chambers, as part of the L.A. Conservancy's Griffith Park's 125th Anniversary celebration on Saturday, November 13.
CAST:
Nic Few – Difford Samuelson
Peter Mendoza – Fernando Vasquez
Mark Doerr – Foreman Krinker
Alexandra Hellquist - Stage Directions
CREATIVE TEAM:
Production Stage Manager - Trixie Eunhae Hong
Sound Operator - Aaron Lyons
EVENT INFORMATION:
The live reading will be followed by a panel discussion featuring Playwright Peppur Chambers; Director Rondrell McCormick; and Professor and Historian Mike Eberts, the author of Griffith Park: A Centennial History; facilitated by Artistic Director Bill Brochtrup.
The event will take place at the Griffith Park Visitor Center Outdoor Amphitheatre (4730 Crystal Springs Drive Los Angeles, CA 90027) and will be first-come, first-seated. No reservations are required. The performance is just one of many activities planned for the Celebrating Historic Griffith Park’s 125th Anniversary event, which is free and open to the public from 9:00 am - 4:00 pm. Visit the L.A. Conservancy website for more information about the exciting all-day event.
"The Fire In-Between" is one of the six new plays to be featured in The Zip Code Plays: Los Angeles, Season Three. Set in the Depression, the play tells the story of Fernando and Difford, two ambitious young men who take government relief jobs maintaining the city’s large urban wilderness. But on the fateful date of October 3, 1933 something goes terribly wrong… How do we follow our dreams when the natural order has been disrupted?
At ANTAEUS: Cloud 9, Mrs. Warren’s Profession, The Seagull, Peace in Our Time, The Malcontent, Cousin Bette, Tonight at 8:30, Pera Palas. Other Theater: Primary Stages, South Coast Repertory, Ensemble Theatre Company, Fountain Theatre, Black Dahlia, Odyssey Theatre Ensemble, L.A. Theatre Works, Pasadena Playhouse, Rogue Machine Theatre. Film: Hypnotized, Life As We Know It, He’s Just Not That Into You, Ravenous. Television: recurring on Major Crimes, Shameless, Kendra; series regular on Public Morals, Total Security, NYPD Blue. Spoken Word: Sit ‘n Spin, Rant & Rave, Spark Off Rose, as well as numerous other storytelling venues. Billbrochtrup.com
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PEPPUR CHAMBERS is an international writer/producer/educator. A member of Circle X Emerging Playwrights Group, Moving Arts MADLab, and Antaeus Playwrights Lab, she uses her voice to amplify women’s issues, social justice and love. Next up: The Fire In-Between, a radio play about LA’s 1933 Griffith Park fire for Antaeus Theatre Company’s The Zip Code Plays Season Three. Her plays For the Love of You, House Rules, The Build UP, Dick & Jayne Get a Life and one-woman show, Harlem’s Awakening: Storytelling Live have been produced in LA and Prague. Learn more about The Hot One including her published fiction at penandpeppur.com
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A member since 2000, Mark has been seen on the Antaeus stage in The Man Who Had All The Luck, The Malcontent and Peace In Our Time. Los Angeles area work includes: Grail Project, Big Shot, TRACK 3 & The Treatment (Theatre Movement Bazaar); Little Black Shadows (South Coast Rep); Mirette (MainStreet Theatre). Broadway: The Visit w/Jane Alexander and Harris Yulin, Off-Broadway: Sharon:The Musical, adapted/directed by Geraldine Fitzgerald. A Juilliard School graduate, Mark has studied Shakespeare in Oxford, Chekov in Moscow and musical theatre in Ann Arbor. Proud Equity member since 1992. More delicious tidbits: markdoerr.com
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Hearts like Planets (virtual, Chance Theatre); The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time (Greenway Court); Othello (Griot Theatre); bled for the household truth (Rogue Machine); Still Life (Rogue Machine); The Hot L Baltimore (T. Schreiber); Two Rooms (The Seeing Place). Film/Episodic: Sole Proprietor (Insurgent Pictures); IRL (Cut To The Chase); Midnight Delight (Dot and Feather); Digital Physics (Philadelphia Philms); Shinobi Girl (Media Blasters). alexandrahellquist.com and @theahellquist
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At ANTAEUS: SHE (reading). Film/TV/Media: Weakend (Netflix-Proof Of Concept); The Wesley’s (web series); The Old Saturday (short film); Effigy (short film); Theater: Between Dog And Wolf (Theatre Of NOTE); Vol. 1 A Post Racial America (Boston Court Pasadena); Polar Bears, Black Boys & Prairie Fringed Orchids (Orlando Shakespeare Festival); Polar Bears, Black Boys & Prairie Fringed Orchids (San Diego Repertory Theatre); Training: B.F.A., North Carolina A&T State University; M.F.A., American Conservatory Theater.
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Peter Mendoza was born and raised in East Los Angeles. He studied theater, stage combat, and dance at East Los Angeles College. At ANTAEUS: Belyaev in Three Days In The Country. Other Theater: Oscar in Sweat (Mark Taper Forum), Elliot in Elliot, A Soldier's Fugue (Kirk Douglas Theatre), Oedipus in Oedipus El Rey (Kirk Douglas Theatre, Digital Stage), Henry Reyna in Zoot Suit (Mark Taper Forum, U/S); Hason in Mojada: A Medea in Los Angeles (The Rep. Theatre of St. Louis); Rafael in La Piedra Oscura; Don Carlos in Los Empeños de una Casa, Paco in Salon Mexico, Don Juan Tenorio in El Burlador de Sevilla (Bilingual Foundation of the Arts). TV: Perry Mason (HBO), From Scratch (Netflix), Shooter (USA), NCIS (CBS), Snowfall (FX), Casual (HULU), On My Block (Netflix). Film: Dead Bullet, Nathan's Kingdom, Parasites, Tecato, Hello to Never, Ana Maria in Novella Land.
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*member, Actor’s Equity Association, the union of professional Actors and Stage Managers in the U.S. This production is presented under the auspices of the Actors’ Equity Los Angeles Membership Company Rule
