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Find articles with information on LAFPI, famous female playwrights, play submissions and more. The Los Angeles Female Playwrights Initiative is an LA-based movement working to ensure that women+ playwrights are fairly represented on local stages, and beyond.
LAFPI Blog
2w ago
Over the weekend I took my five-year old to see Duel Reality by a group named The Seven Fingers at the Ahmanson. This show promised to be a mix of acrobatics, aerial stunts, and dance choreography set to the storyline of Romeo and Juliet. Think Cirque du Soleil, but on a much smaller, therefore, much ..read more
LAFPI Blog
3w ago
Art is creation, the yang energy of expression. Edges define boundaries of dark and light and reflect upon the canvas of the retinal cones that mirror shapes and shades. Aural caves and visual effects filtering through the mind, a level of consciousness. Where is the seat of consciousness? Science is the inquiry and investigation ..read more
LAFPI Blog
1M ago
by Kitty Felde I just got back from “over the pond” and wanted to tell you about two terrific productions I saw – one at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival, the other in a small theatre in the West End of London. RADIUM GIRLS DW Gregory, a wonderful writer from my D.C. playwrights group posted on ..read more
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1M ago
by Constance Strickland In between the acts of routine and a hard-lined schedule, my body becomes numb. I hold a series of thoughts that refuse to reveal moments of clarity. The body cannot find rest and the mind roams. To quiet the noise she writes, she goes back in time, for her body holds onto ..read more
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1M ago
by Chelsea Sutton This summer felt a little Twilight Zone-y. I got the opportunity to travel to Valdez, Alaska for the annual conference there and to Ivins, Utah for the Kayenta New Play Lab — both for readings of my play The Abundance. The play, as I’ve come around to understanding, is a horror play ..read more
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1M ago
by Robin Byrd There have been earthquakes over here, shaking up my house of cards. Strange how they aren’t actually falling from their perches one upon the other, row upon row. Almost as if glued in place, they stand. Yet in the background, I can hear glass shattering from my past Northridge earthquake memories, leaving ..read more
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2M ago
by Cynthia Wands Nocturne, artwork by Eric Boyd I’m sharing an image for this blog that my husband, Eric Boyd, created some years ago, and it’s a favorite of mine. The model for this beautiful image was my sister, Barbara. Eric’s legacy of artwork, in images and art glass pieces, reminds me of our evolving ..read more
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2M ago
by Ayesha Siddiqui You are traveling to a place you have not been for a long time, but think of often. The anticipation of memory is shimmering within you, cascading like starlight down your arms, then back up again to your mouth where you can’t help but smile. You arrive. The sidewalks have new cracks, the ..read more
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2M ago
by Carolina Pilar Xique In Dido of Idaho, playwright Abby Rosebrock challenges her main character, Nora, and audiences to change the stories we tell ourselves, by framing Nora’s tale in a story many of us know so well: the Myth of Dido & Aeneas (wherein the Queen of Carthage falls desperately and tragically in love with ..read more
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2M ago
By Leelee Jackson For the past few weeks, I’ve been creating a one act play I was commissioned to write about the legacy of writer Dr. Maya Angelou. It’s been amazing getting to know her. It’s not just a play either. The project is comprised of several unique storytelling tools that fill up (and out ..read more