Hollywood Park Racetrack is about to close its doors forever, but that doesn’t stop new-to-town Lina from searching for a long lost relative — with nothing but a yellowing polaroid and an old tip sheet. The odds for the future are long in this look at the dreams that drive people to reinvent themselves in the City of Angels.
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CREATIVE TEAM:
Series Host – Ramón de Ocampo
Audio Producer, Sound Designer, and Foley Artist – Jeff Gardner
Feature credits include: The Starling, Vice, Under the Silver Lake, Grand Piano, Grandma, The Maze Runner, Lucky Bastard, For A Good Time Call, Magnolia, The Shawshank Redemption, Under the Tuscan Sun, National Treasure, Hannibal, Air Force One. TV credits include: Sorry For Your Loss, Mom, Justified, 24, Northern Exposure, NCIS, Private Practice, Rescue Me, Parks and Recreation, Boston Legal, Grey's Anatomy, Dexter, Seinfeld, Frasier, The Closer, CSI, Mad About You. Stage credits include: New York Public Theater, Manhattan Theater Club, San Francisco's ACT, The Old Globe Theater, the Matrix Theater, ANTAEUS. A graduate of Yale University.
As a member of Antaeus Theatre Company, Ellis most recently recorded 90303:Inglewood - The Vig, an episode of “The Zip Code Plays." Other Antaeus credits include Native Son, Three Days in the Country, and Les Liaisons Dangereuses. Ellis can be also seen and heard in many L.A. Theatre Works audio theatre productions including The Thanksgiving Play,Charles Busch’s Die Mommie Die, The Goodbye Girl, Jefferson’s Garden and the National Tour of LATW’s Seven. In early 2023 she’ll play Lucille Ball in the LATW National Tour of “Lucy Loves Desi: A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Sitcom.” Other L.A. theatre credits include Native Son at Center Theatre Group’s “Block Party,” The Matchmaker at Actor’s Co-op, and workshops and staged readings at Pasadena Playhouse, Independent Shakespeare Co. and others. Regional theatre credits include Desdemona, a play about a handkerchief at Opera House Arts, The Many Women of Troy with Pallas Theatre Collective and The Diary of Anne Frank with Oklahoma Children’s Theatre. She received a BFA in Acting from the University of Southern California.
Broadway: Dividing The Estate (Lincoln Center). Off-Broadway: 365 Days 365 Plays (Cherry Lane/The Public), Dividing The Estate (Primary Stages), Ghosts (Pearl Theatre Company), Forgotten World Reading (The Public/Sundance Lab). Regional/LA: Eclipsed (McCarter Theatre), The Trip To Bountiful (Center Theatre Group), Cowboy Elektra (Getty Villa/Rogue Arts Ensemble), Georgia McBride (Ensemble Theatre). T.V./Film: The Player (NBC), Delocated (Adult Swim), 12 Steps To Recovery (VerizonFios Web), Burns (YouTube), Mid-CIty Blue (Pan African Film Festival). MFA: The University of California, San Diego. Member: AEA, SAG-AFTRA.
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.
Paula Cizmar
Writer
PAULA CIZMAR is an award-winning playwright/librettist. Plays include: Antigone X (California Repertory) and The Last Nights of Scheherazade (winner of the Israel Baran Award). She is one of the writers of the site-specific Hotel Play (Playwrights Arena) and Seven (LA Theatre Works, plus 30+ productions in 22 languages). She wrote the libretto for Invisible (LA Opera Eurydice Found Festival), Firecrackers (commissioned by White Snake Opera), and won the Pittsburgh Festival Opera Fight for the Right competition for Night Flight of Minerva’s Owl. She was awarded a Mellon Foundation On the Road grant and a Rockefeller residency at Bellagio. paulacizmar.com
*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
