NEWS RELEASE ▪︎ MISS COCO PERU RETURNS TO LOS ANGELES LGBT CENTER FOR TWO SHOWS ONLY, FEBRUARY 10 & 11

BACK BY POPULAR DEMAND!

The Los Angeles LGBT Center’s 

Lily Tomlin/Jane Wagner Cultural Arts Center

Presents

MISS COCO PERU

A GENTLE REMINDER:
MISS COCO PERU’S GUIDE TO A SOMEWHAT HAPPY LIFE
Written and Performed by Clinton Leupp
Directed by Michael Schiralli

TWO PERFORMANCES ONLY

 Friday, February 10 & Saturday February 11 at8pm

at the Renberg Theatre

In response to overwhelming popular demand, the Los Angeles LGBT Center’s Lily Tomlin/Jane Wagner Cultural Arts Center has announced the return of the legendary Miss Coco Peru in her latest solo show, A Gentle Reminder: Miss Coco Peru’s Guide to a Somewhat Happy Life. There will be two performances only at the Renberg Theatre on Friday and Saturday, February 10 & 11 at 8pm.

Few of the Center’s productions have received as many requests for an encore as A Gentle Reminder. With her skyrocketing popularity on YouTube, Miss Coco Peru has been inundated with emails from people of all ages asking her the same question: “Coco, what is the secret to a happy life?”  Being  the  giver  that  she  is, Coco has written a new show in which, through story and song, she shares a step-by-step guide that leaves you prepared to enter the world again ready to create your very own “somewhat” happy life. Why just a “somewhat” happy life? Well, let’s face it, you wouldn’t want to be happy all the time because “happy” people make such a racket!

Storyteller/monologist Miss Coco Peru, aka Clinton Leupp, got his/her start as a downtown favorite in the New York cabaret world after he wrote, produced, directed, and starred in his first show, Miss Coco Peru in My Goddamn Cabaret, 25 years ago. A veteran of numerous feature films (trick and the cult classic Girls Will Be Girls, among numerous others), and television shows (How I Met Your Mother, Arrested Development, Twins, and more). Leupp has received worldwide acclaim for his award-winning solo shows and his remarkable series of tributes to great performers, Conversations with Coco, in which she conducts live career-retrospective interviews with such luminaries as Lily Tomlin, Jane Fonda, Liza Minnelli, and the late Bea Arthur.

Leupp has been honored by many organizations, including the Los Angeles LGBT Center, for his long history of dedicated activism and unflagging support of the LGBT community. The Center is proud to present the return of A Gentle Reminder, the sixth original stage show to be performed at the Renberg by one of our most beloved artists.

General admission tickets are $30 and may be purchased online atwww.lalgbtcenter.org/theatre or by phone at (323) 860-7300. Net proceeds from all ticket sales will support the full range of free and low-cost programs and services offered by the Los Angeles LGBT Center.

The Los Angeles LGBT Center’s Renberg Theatre is located at 1125 N. McCadden Place (one block east of Highland, just north of Santa Monica Boulevard), in Hollywood, 90038. Free onsite parking is available.

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01-17-17

NEWS RELEASE ▪︎ TALK RADIO HOST SHEENA METAL IS RAISING THE VIBRATION OF THE NATION (AND THE WORLD)

TALK RADIO HOST SHEENA METAL

INTRODUCES

I AM RAISING THE VIBRATION

OF THE NATION (AND THE WORLD)

AT LA TALK RADIO AND ONLINE

Sheena Metal, an entertainment icon who has anchored numerous radio shows for over 20 years in Los Angeles and was named one ofTalkers Magazine’s Frontier Fifty (an exclusive selection of outstanding talk media webcasters) has founded I Am Raising the Vibration of the Nation (and the World), a new peace movement in response to the division and distress across the country since last November’s presidential election. Along with a new radio program and blog, Metal will be inaugurating Facebook Live video posts and YouTube segments. There will also be a monthly event at the Filmmakers Gallery in Long Beach, CA. The radio program made its debut on Monday, January 9 and will air every Monday night from 7–9pm PT. The website is now live and the blog will follow later this month.

Metal describes I Am Raising the Vibration of the Nation (and the World): “We are a movement of peace, unity, community, and love. Like a phoenix from the ashes, I believe that raising the vibration of the nation is the first step to finding true peace and unequivocal unity among our country’s citizens.” The weekly LA Talk Radio program will feature guests who are working to better and enrich our country and the world. Along with speakers, the monthly event at the Filmmakers Gallery in Long Beach will feature documentary films on the same theme.

A mainstay at LATalkRadio.com, Metal also serves as host of three of the station’s most popular shows — The Sheena Metal Experience, now celebrating its eighth anniversary (Monday through Friday, 5—7pm PT);Haunted Playground, a mix of celebrity guests and well known figures in the paranormal community, in its seventh year (Tuesdays, 3—5pm PT); andMusic Highway, in its twelfth year (eight years at LATR) and has recentlypartnered with musicxray.com, to bring more international artists to the show (Wednesdays, from 3—5pm PT).

Metal serves on the Boards of Ensemble Studio Theatre/LA, the Artemis: Women in Action Film Festival, SIA Organization, and The Moreno Valley Cultural Arts Foundation, and she also works with the Harvey Milk Foundation. She annually produces, directs, and acts in a production of Eve Ensler’s The Vagina Monologues to benefit two anti-violence charities. Metal is a regular on the Child of the 70s web series and has appeared in Film Lab’sAmnesia, Bruno & Earlene Go To Vegas (Outfest premiere), and the short filmPoint Mugu (starring Skeet Ulrich).

For more information, visit www.iamraisingthevibration.com on the web, on Facebook at www.facebook.com/iamraisingthevibrationand on Twitter @SheenaMetal. The blog will be available atwww.vibrationnation.com.

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01-17-17

NEWS RELEASE ▪︎ 27th ANNUAL LA STAGE ALLIANCE OVATION AWARDS PRESENTED ON TUESDAY, JANUARY 17

27^th ANNUAL LA STAGE ALLIANCE

OVATION AWARDS

PRESENTED TUESDAY, JANUARY 17

AT THE AHMANSON THEATRE

The 27^th Annual LA STAGE Alliance Ovation Awards, celebrating theatrical excellence and achievement throughout Los Angeles, were presented on Tuesday, January 17 at the Ahmanson Theatre at The Music Center.

Thirty-five awards were bestowed upon 19 different Southern California theatre companies. The most honored companies of the year were Celebration Theatre (The Boy from Oz, Bootycandy); the Los Angeles LGBT Center (Hit the Wall, HAM: A Musical Memoir); The Theatre @ Boston Court for Colony Collapse, The Golden Dragon, and Mojada: A Medea in Los Angeles (co-production with the Getty Villa); Unbound Productions (Wicked Lit 2015); and Sierra Madre Playhouse (Deathtrap, The 25^th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee). The Los Angeles LGBT Center received the Best Season Award (Fool for Love, HAM: A Musical Memoir, Hit the Wall.

Other companies recognized were the Falcon Theatre (The Complete History of America–Abridged), The Broad Stage (1984), The Echo Theater Company (Dry Land), Geffen Playhouse (Guards at the Taj), Orgasmico Theatre Company (Shakespeare’s Night Out), The Road Theatre Company (John is a Father), La Mirada Theatre for the Performing Arts (Dreamgirls), Heart and Flame Productions (We Are The Tigers: A New Musical), The Pasadena Playhouse (Casa Valentina), Rubicon Theatre Company (See Rock City), and 24^thStreet Theatre (Man Covets Bird). For a complete list of winners, go to @ This Stage Magazine (ThisStage.LA).

Ovation Honors, which recognize outstanding achievement in areas that are not among the standard list of nomination categories, were awarded to Gregory Nabours (Music Composition for a Play, The Sparrow at Coeurage Theatre Company); Edgar Landa (Fight Choreography, Son of Semele Ensemble’s That Pretty Pretty; or, The Rape Play); and Greg Ballora, Sean Cawelti, Christine Papalexis, Jack Pullman, and Brian White (Puppet Design, Woody Boy Long Fish at Bootleg Theater).

Additionally, Center Theatre Group presented the 2017 Sherwood Award for innovative and adventurous artists to Pablo Santiago. This award is endowed by the Sherwood family and is accompanied by $10,000 to further Santiago’s artistic work.

The ceremony was hosted by Alexandra Billings, and this year’s presenters included LA theatre luminaries (in alphabetical order) Michael Arden, Randall Arney, Jon Robin Baitz, EB Brooks, Sterling K. Brown, Sara Ryung Clement, Paul Crewes, Dale Dickey, Danny Feldman, Marilyn Fox, Beth Grant, Elizabeth Harper, Rajiv Joseph, Richard Montoya, Oanh Nguyen, Mitch O’Farrell, Bill Pullman, Diane Rodriguez, Ric Salinas, Del Shores, Herbert Siguenza, Ali Stroker, and Kitty Swink. Musical numbers were  presented by DOMA Theatre Company.

Founded in 1989, the LA STAGE Alliance Ovation Awards are the only peer-judged theatre awards in Los Angeles. Voters are Los Angeles theatre professionals who are chosen each year, through an application process, by the Ovation Rules Committee. This year’s Ovation Awards eligibility period ran from August 31, 2015 through August 28, 2016.

Since 1975, LA STAGE Alliance has dedicated to building awareness, appreciation, and support for the performing arts in Greater Los Angeles. All of its initiatives aim to serve and strengthen the sector — both at an individual and community level — providing resources that facilitate audience engagement, collaborative marketing, community building, and professional development.

Sponsors for this year’s Ovation Awards ceremony were Wells Fargo, Walt Disney Imagineering Creative Entertainment, F&D Scene Changes Ltd., UCLA School of Theater, Film & Television, Goldstar, USC School of Dramatic Arts, Ken Werther Publicity, Bakers Man Productions, Time Out Los Angeles, TheaterMania | OvationTix, Performances Magazine, Variety, and Peter Konerko Photography. The Ovation Awards were presented in partnership with the New York Drama Desk Awards.

For more information visit www.lastagealliance.com.

#OvationAwards

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