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

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Cast

At ANTAEUS: Measure for Measure, readings of The Rover; Mayor of the 85th Floor. Frequent participant of the Antaeus Playwrights Lab. Other Theater: My Children, My Africa! (Marin Theatre Company); A Christmas Carol (American Conservatory Theater); Exonerated (Lynx Performance Theatre); Good Breeding (Yerba Buena Center for the Arts); Hamlet Machine (Ion Theatre). TV/Film: 40; Easy Made Hard; The Institute. Training: B.A., San Diego State University; M.F.A., American Conservatory Theater. Member: AEA, SAG.
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Bernard K. Addison*

Daddy August/Cab Driver
At ANTAEUS: As You Like It, The Curse of Oedipus. Recent: King of France, All’s Well That Ends Well (A Noise Within). LA: Chutes&Ladders, Water by the Spoonful (Mark Taper Forum), Citizen: An American Lyric (Kirk Douglas Theater), Romeo and Juliet (Ahmanson Theater), Solly Two Kings, Gem of the Ocean (u/s, A Noise Within), Off the Rails (Native Voices), Prometheus Bound (Getty Villa), Citizen: An American Lyric, The Ballad of Emmett Till, Joe Turner’s Come and Gone (Fountain Theatre), Mother Courage (Theatre @ Boston Court). Regional: Ghost/Claudius in Hamlet and Bottom in A Midsummer Night’s Dream (Shakespeare Santa Cruz); Joe Turner’s Come and Gone (The Lorraine Hansberry Theatre in San Francisco); Henry V and The Man Who Came to Dinner (Oregon Shakespeare Festival); Othello (California Shakespeare Festival); the Denver Theatre Center; Actors Theatre of Louisville; the Long Wharf Theatre; the Shakespeare Theatre (DC); and PlayMakers Rep. New York: Broadway (Electra). Film: Celebrity, The Farm. Recent TV: Call Me Kat, Modern Family, Rake. Awards: Ovation and LADCC for Acting Ensemble: The Ballad of Emmett Till.
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Marlow Wyatt is a playwright and actor. She received her BFA (magna cum laude) from Howard University College of Fine Arts. She is a 2022/23 LA New Play Project grant recipient, a 2022 Lower Depth Commission Fellow, 2022 AGE Legacy Grant recipient, Antaeus 2021 NEXT Commission Artist, Support Black Theatre’s 2021 As We Grow We Sow Awardee, 2021 SBT New Works Pipeline Artist, 2016 Long Beach Playhouse New Works winner and a CTG/Humanitas Playwrights Prize finalist. Selected works include: SHE (2023 World Premiere/Antaeus Theatre); Robbin, from the Hood (2024 Road Theatre World Premiere, Eugene O'Neill semi-finalist); Listen, A Black Woman Is Speaking (2023 Common Crow Theatre/Dublin, Ireland, Third Rail Repertory, CoHo Theatre readings, 2022 Plays In Motion Moving Arts workshop); Red Ribbons (2022 Voices for Victory Reading Series, 2021 Headwaters New Play finalist); Bread and Circus (2023 No Noise Reading Series - A Noise Within/Lower Depth Theatre Co. Cycle of Poverty Fellowship) and The Things We Leave Behind (NEXT Commission/Antaeus Theatre Company). For more information visit marlowwyatt.com or follow her on IG @marlowwrites.
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Khari Wyatt

Writer
Khari Wyatt is the descendant of runaway slaves and inner-city America with its adversities, tragedies and triumphs; the son of high school sweethearts: a mother who is an artist and a father who courageously moved his young family from the rust-belt to our Nation's Capital to find a better life; the grandson of men who wore blue collars in auto plants and on railroad trains; the grandson of women who taught Sunday school and waitressed in greasy spoons. He is a writer. His work has placed in various competitions including, Disney/ABC Writers Fellowship, Sony Pictures Entertainment Diversity Writers Program, AMC One-Hour Drama competition, Austin Film Festival Screenplay Competition, and Writer’s-for-Writer’s Diversity Fellowship among others. Some of the fellowships and grants he has received came from the MacDowell Colony, the Guy Hanks/Marvin Miller Screenwriting Program, and the Panavision New Filmmaker Equipment Grant. He was recently selected to write and develop his play, Starchild, in the Circle X Theatre Company Evolving Playwrights Group. He was one of eleven writers of #While We Breathe: A Night of Creative Protest, a streaming theatrical event produced by Brian Moreland and Arvind Ethan David. Moving Arts, Chalk Repertory Theatre as well as the DC Black Theatre Festival have hosted his plays for readings and workshops. His play Some Type of Ecstasy was a semifinalist for the Eugene O’Neill Theater Center’s National Playwrights Conference. His ten-minute play, Ingredients, was presented as part of the Moving Arts- Los Angeles County Museum of Art’s Night at the Museum. He currently is a writer for Moving Arts’ web series, Isolation Inn being aired on YouTube in fall 2020. Wyatt is an alumnus of Howard University, earned an MFA in Film from Columbia University in the City of New York, and also completed the Summer Legal Institute at Loyola Law School in Los Angeles. He is member of Antaeus Theatre Company Playwrights Lab, Moving Arts and the Playwrights Union. khariwyatt.com

Bernadette Speakes

Director

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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