Announcing: IAMA Theatre Company Presents ‘The Recommendation’ by Jonathan Caren – February 8 thru March 9

IAMA THEATRE COMPANY PRESENTS
THE LOS ANGELES PREMIERE OF
THE RECOMMENDATION
BY JONATHAN CAREN
DIRECTED BY LAURA SAVIA

OPENS SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 8
AT THEATRE ASYLUM FOR FIVE WEEKS ONLY

IAMA Theatre Company (Becca Wolff, Artistic Director, Cymbre Walk, Producing Director) has announced the Los Angeles premiere of The Recommendation, written by Jonathan Caren and directed by Laura Savia, at Theatre Asylum in Hollywood. There will be two lower-priced preview performances on Thursday, February 6 and Friday, February 7 at 8pm, and opening is set for Saturday, February 8 at 8pm. The Recommendation will play a limited engagement through March 9 only.

The Recommendation is the story of Aaron Feldman — smart, privileged, and liked by everyone — and his college roommate Iskinder, who is modest, unconnected, and from a middle-class immigrant family. They become best friends in college and Aaron shares his world of favors and fortune with Iskinder. Once out in the real world, however, Aaron is thrust into a terrifying situation without his familiar safety net. As he is forced to rely on an accused felon to keep him safe, Aaron and Iskinder are forced to rethink the meaning of friendship and where loyalty has its limits.

The cast of The Recommendation will feature (in alphabetical order) Malcolm Barrett, Brandon Scott, and Adam Shapiro. The set design is by Rachel Myers, lighting design is by Carolina Ortiz, sound design is by Jeff Gardner, and costume design is by Melissa Trn. The stage manager is Josephine Austin.

Jonathan Caren’s other plays include The Morning The Sun Fell Down, Let Me Go, Catch the Fish, and The Venerable Raman Gupta. His work has been developed at theatres across the country including Manhattan Theatre Club, Ensemble Studio Theatre, Ars Nova, The Roundabout Underground, The Pasadena Playhouse, The Keen Company, Woodshed Ensemble, Berkshire Playwrights Lab, The Lark, New York Stage and Film, The Jewish Plays Project, The Samuel French OOB Festival, and The Old Vic in London. Caren is a 2013 MacDowell Colony Fellow, a 2012 Dramatist Guild Fellow, the 2011 New York Stage and Film Founder’s Award Winner, a two-time recipient of a Fellowship to SPACE @ Ryder Farm, a two-time Lecomte du Nouy Award-winner and a recipient of the Theatre Publicus Prize for Dramatic Fiction.

Laura Savia’s directing credits include The Mnemonist of Dutchess County, Letters to Santa, The Glass Menagerie, House Strictly Private, The Color of Justice and The Lover, as well as numerous short plays for Ars Nova, Partial Comfort, At Play, and The 24-Hour Plays. She has directed workshops and readings for The Public Theater, Roundabout Theatre Company, Atlantic Theater Company, Second Stage, and Ma-Yi Theater Company, among others. Savia is the workshop director at the Williamstown Theatre Festival where she serves as artistic producer for 12 late-night and outdoor productions each summer.

There will be two lower-priced preview on Thursday, February 6 and Friday, February 7 at 8pm, and opening is set for Saturday, February 8 at 8pm. Admission for previews is $13 in advance with code RECIAMA or $15 at the door, and regular tickets are $18 in advance and $25 at the door. The running schedule is Friday and Saturday at 8pm and Sunday at 7pm through March 9 only. Tickets are on sale now and may be purchased online at www.iamatheatre.com or by calling (323) 645-0134.

Theatre Asylum is located at 6320 Santa Monica Boulevard (just west of Vine), in Hollywood, 90038. Street parking is available.

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01-30-14

Announcing: IAMA Theatre Company Presents ‘Sixty Miles to Silver Lake’ at Lounge Theatre, Opening Sat 2/2

IAMA THEATRE COMPANY PRESENTS
SIXTY MILES TO SILVER LAKE
BY DAN LeFRANC
DIRECTED BY BECCA WOLFF

OPENS SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 2 AT LOUNGE THEATRE
FOR SIX WEEKS ONLY

IAMA Theatre Company (Becca Wolff, Artistic Director) has announced a limited engagement of Sixty Miles to Silver Lake, written by Dan LeFranc and directed by Wolff, at Hollywood’s Lounge Theatre. There will be one lower-priced preview performance on Friday, February 1 at 8pm, and opening night is set for Saturday, February 2 at 8:00. Sixty Miles to Silver Lake will play a limited engagement through March 10 only.

In the play, a moody teenager and his deadbeat dad cruise down the 5 Freeway, through an Orange County landscape littered with Christian rock, young love, and lecherous soccer coaches. Their attempts at male bonding take a turn for the strange as the action skips through time and the two confront the twists and turns of a lifetime together, and learn what it means to grow up. Of a 2012 ‘Collaboraction at the Flat Iron Arts Building’ production in Chicago, The Tribune said, “It’s a gem of a journey all around.”

Playwright Dan LeFranc was named 2010 Playwright of the Year by The New York Times. His other plays include The Big Meal, Origin Story, Bruise Easy, Night Surf, In The Labyrinth, The Fishbone Fables, Backyard, Kill The Keepers, and Catgut. His work has been developed and produced across the country at Playwrights Horizons, Soho Rep, Actors Theatre of Louisville, The Vineyard Theater, Sundance Theatre Institute, The Kennedy Center, ArsNova, Rattlestick, and American Repertory Theatre, among many others. LeFranc’s play Troublemaker is currently running at Berkeley Rep. Director (and IAMA Artistic Director) Becca Wolff is also co-founder of Tilted Field Productions, a geographically diversified collective of artists with members in Chicago, Los Angeles, New York and San Francisco. Other directing credits include Status Update at Center Rep, Usher, which was named Outstanding Musical at the 2008 NY International Fringe Festival, and the upcoming The Last Days of Mary Stuart, an opera composed by the rock band TONY (Son of Semele Ensemble, Summer 2013).

The cast of Sixty Miles to Silver Lake will feature (in alphabetical order) Daniel David Stewart and Wes Whitehead. Projection design is by Kaitlyn Pietras, lighting design is by Elizabeth Harper, sound design is by Veronika Vorel, and costume design is by Louise Munson. The stage manager is Lara Myrene, and Sixty Miles to Silver Lake is being produced by Cymbre Walk for IAMA Theatre Company.

There will be one lower-priced preview on Friday, February 1 at 8pm, and opening night is set for Saturday, February 2 at 8:00. Admission for the preview is $10, and regular tickets are $20 in advance and $25 at the door. The running schedule is Friday and Saturday at 8pm and Sunday at 7pm, through March 10 only. Tickets are on sale now, and may be purchased online at https://iamatheatre.secure.force.com/ticket, or by calling (859) 893-5376.

The Lounge Theatre is located at 6201 Santa Monica Boulevard (at El Centro, one block east of Vine), in Hollywood. Street parking is available.

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01-09-13