Theatre Mab Town Hall, a fresh Los Angeles theatre company with a focus on promoting the power of the individual, announces a Collaborations Conversation in recognition of SWAN Day (Support Women Artists Now Day).
The Collaborations Conversation is open to all theatre artists – male and female – who are interested in fostering new work for women theatre artists; will be held on Sunday, March 25, 2012 at 3:00pm at The Will Geer Theatricum Botanicum in Topanga.
SWAN Day is an annual event created by WomenArts. Organizations across the country take part by focusing attention on the work of women artists in the weeks surrounding the last Saturday of March (Women’s History Month).
The Collaborations Conversation is one of the few SWAN Day events in the Los Angeles area, and a unique call to action which welcomes participants. A panel of respected theatre artists and professionals has been assembled to open the Collaborations Conversation, an active springboard for new partnerships and projects.
The panel includes celebrated actress, director and Theatricum Botanicum Artistic Director Ellen Geer, and opera diva turned arts administrator and Founding Director of The Broad Stage, Dale Franzen.
Theatre Mab Town Hall Artistic Director and Conversation moderator Ella Martin describes the event as “A conversation by and for women theatre artists and professionals on the nature and possibilities of collaboration. The event will create an environment where women theatre artists can discuss past successful collaborations, meet new potential collaborators, and plan how they can and will work together to continue to support excellent work by women.”
Other scheduled panelists are performer/director Susan Angelo (Theatricum Botanicum, A Noise Within), director/producer Jen Bloom (Santa Monica Rep), playwright Mary F. Casey (Jane Chambers Award Winner), writer/performer Marissa Chibas (Daughter of a Cuban Revolutionary) and award-winning director Ann-Giselle Spiegler (Lit Theater).
The Collaborations Conversation is produced by Theatre Mab Town Hall; hosted by The Will Geer Theatricum Botanicum, a longtime theatrical institution focusing on the classics, education and new play development; and supported by the Los Angeles Female Playwrights Initiative, a movement working to ensure fair representation of women playwrights on local stages, and beyond.
The Will Geer Theatricum Botanicum is located at 1419 N. Topanga Canyon Blvd. in Topanga, midway between Malibu and the San Fernando Valley. The theater is outdoors; bring a sweater or jacket.
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