90011: South Central Los Angeles
Written by: Khari Wyatt
Directed By: Bernadette Speakes
Episode Available: November 12, 2020
In 1956 Leon Ivy returns home from a sojourn in Paris with a finished novel, a publisher, and big plans for his future — but times have changed along Central Avenue and his wife Bird and her new business partner, Daddy August, have enacted secret plans of their own. What are the costs of leaving home and what is the price of fighting for what you believe in?
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Series Host – Ramón de Ocampo
Audio Producer, Sound Designer, and Foley Artist – Jeff Gardner
Original Music – Ellen Mandel
Audio Editor – Adam Macias
Dramaturg – Ryan McRee
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90011: South Central Los Angeles
Cast
Lloyd Roberson II*
Bernard K. Addison*
Marlow Wyatt
Production Team
Khari Wyatt
Bernadette Speakes
Bernadette Speakes is excited to be joining Season 2 of Antaeus Theater Company's Zip Code Plays. She’s had 20+ years in the industry. As an actor, she’s performed in theatres throughout Los Angeles and the country. Her TV and film credits include performing in the Emmy Nominated show, A Stage of our Own, with James Earl Jones, and in To Sir With Love II with Sidney Poitier. She also has a recurring guest star role on the CW’s All American.
Bernadette has had directorial success in sold out performances of The Bluest Eye and The Watsons Go To Birmingham–1963. The Hollywood Fringe Festival honored Bernadette as a "Female Director of Distinction," for the production of Villain: An American Story. Bernadette has had the privilege directing other theatre productions, staged readings, and short films such as CUT (Humanitas Play Festival), Queen of Los Angeles (The Robey Theatre), Emerald King, and Imaginist.
*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
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