Episode 69. Bill McNulty - Resident Actor & Dir, Actors Theatre - MoxieTalk with Kirt Jacobs
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Episode 69. William “Bill” McNulty - Resident Actor & Director, Actors Theatre of Louisville
Interviewed 09-26-2008
ABOUT WILLIAM BILL MCNULTY
Bill McNulty is an actor and director who has performed internationally, and enjoys a grounded life with a love for his work and his family.
McNulty grew up in New Jersey, where he earned a scholarship to the highly-rated theatre department at Rollins College. He then pursued his graduate degree from Penn State University, while studying under some outstanding teachers in the MFA acting program.
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ABOUT MOXIETALK WITH KIRT JACOBS
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MoxieTalk, where we give you an intimate look into the courage, character, and defining moments of today’s most inspiring individuals.
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Episode 50. Jennifer Bielstein - Managing Dir, Actors Theatre of Lou - MoxieTalk with Kirt Jacobs
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Episode 50. Jennifer Bielstein - Past Managing Director of Actors Theatre of Louisville (2006-2016)
Interviewed 12-05-2007
ABOUT JENNIFER BIELSTEIN
Jennifer Bielstein loves the art form and experience of live theatre and believes that it can change people’s lives.
Bielstein is managing director of Actors Theatre of Louisville where she oversees finance, marketing, fundraising and general operations for one of America’s most innovative theatre companies. Every year Bielstein manages one of the nation’s most prestigious new-play events, the Humana Festival while also managing regular season programming.
BIOGRAPHY & FULL LENGTH EPISODE
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ABOUT MOXIETALK WITH KIRT JACOBS
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MoxieTalk, where we give you an intimate look into the courage, character, and defining moments of today’s most inspiring individuals.
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Preview of 43 Plays for 43 Presidents at Actors Theatre
Preview of 43 Plays for 43 Presidents by Neo-Futurists Andrew Bayiates, Sean Benjamin, Genevra Gallo, Chloë Johnston and Karen Weinberg. Onstage at Actors Theatre of Louisville now thru Sept 28, 2008. More information at:
2017 New Voices: (Bar)ri(e)rs by Carson Hardee
(Bar)ri(e)rs by Carson Hardee, a part of the 2017 New Voices Young Playwrights Festival at Actors Theatre of Louisville, directed by Sammy Zeisel with dramaturgy by Elliott Talkington.
Final Year: A Christmas Story Commercial 2013
'A Christmas Story'
November 7 - November 25, 2012
by Philip Grecian
based on the motion picture 'A Christmas Story' © 1983 Turner Entertainment Co., distributed by Warner Bros., written by Jean Shepherd, Leigh Brown and Bob Clark; and on the book 'In God We Trust, All Others Pay Cash' by Jean Shepherd
directed by Drew Fracher
In this Christmas adventure like no other, young Ralphie Parker's fervent campaign for a Red Ryder BB Gun unfolds despite a chorus of worries (You'll shoot your eye out!) and amid seasonal shenanigans involving a leg lamp, a bunny suit and a tongue stuck to a frozen flagpole. Relive a family tradition or start one anew with this stage adaption of the beloved film, inspired by Jean Shepherd's classic American stories about Christmas—and growing up—in the Midwest.
Recommended for ages 7 and up
Content Advisory: None
Actors Theatre of Louisville
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Tickets: 502-584-1205
When You're an Addams - The Addams Family
The Addams Family
October 16-25, 2015
The Mex Theater of The Kentucky Center for the Performing Arts Presented by Acting Against Cancer in Louisville, KY
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Gomez: Marc McHone
Morticia: Heidi Platt
Wednesday: Deborah Mae Hill
Pugsley: Hunter Broyles
Uncle Fester: Craig Nolan Highley
Grandma: Cindy Smith
Lurch: Connor Breen
Ancestors: Kathy Todd Chaney, Rebecca Chaney, Sam Couch, Alfred Dale Jones Jr., Molly Kays, Katie Kiefer, Patrick Koshewa, Hannah Mattingly, Andrew Mertz, Sara Troxel,
Director: Remy Sisk
Music Director: Charlie Meredith
Choreographer: Alfred Dale Jones Jr.
TIM MILLER in LAY OF THE LAND
LAY OF THE LAND is Tim Miller's saucy, sharp-knifed look at the State of the Union during a time of trial! Careening from his sexy misadventures performing in 45 States, to Marriage Equality street protests, to the electoral assaults on gay folks all over the country, to his life as a grade-school flag monitor, to choking on cheap meat caught in his 10 year old gay boy's throat, LAY OF THE LAND friskily gets at that feeling of gay folks being perpetually on trial, on the ballot, and on the menu!
Miller's LAY OF THE LAND enters territory as exhilarating as it is meaningful. Miller lays out his unapologetically renegade viewpoint with exemplary economy and sardonic humor. Marriage equality is the thematic undercurrent against which reminiscences of various activist and performance landmarks coalesce into something larger than the sum of their considerable parts. The final apotheosis stands high in Miller's canon, which, together with the overarching relevance, makes Lay of the Land a vivid, must-see achievement.
-David Nichols, The Los Angeles Times
As the newest of Miller's internationally acclaimed solo performances, LAY OF THE LAND takes on a fierce and funny examination of citizenship and who eats and who gets eaten. Framed by a No on Prop 8 protest in downtown L.A., Miller makes pit stops as Abraham and his gay son Isaac are spread out on a L.A. 70's suburban Formica kitchen, the L.A. Courthouse explodes in pink jury summons that call queer identity to judgment, and a vision of a Heimlich Manuever that helps us get out of this mess! LAY OF THE LAND is a lay in all kinds of ways: a sex-assignation, a queer citizenship map, and of course a narrative ballad with a recurrent refrain! (Miller's favorite way-down-the-list definition for lay!)
TIM MILLER is an internationally acclaimed solo performer. Hailed for its humor and passion, Miller's performance works have delighted and emboldened audiences all over the world at such prestigious venues as Yale Repertory Theatre, the London Institute of Contemporary Art, the Walker Art Center, Actors Theatre of Louisville and the Brooklyn Academy of Music Next Wave Festival. He is the author of the books SHIRTS & SKIN, BODY BLOWS, and 1001 BEDS, an anthology of his performances and essays which won the 2007 Lambda Literary Award for best book in Drama-Theatre. Miller has taught performance at UCLA, NYU and the Claremont School of Theology. He is a
co-founder of two of the most influential performance spaces in the United States: Performance Space 122 on Manhattan's Lower East Side and Highways Performance Space in Santa Monica, CA. For more information check his website
TimMillerPerformer.com
TIM MILLER in LAY OF THE LAND Trailer
LAY OF THE LAND is Tim Miller's saucy, sharp-knifed look at the State of the Union during a time of trial! Careening from his sexy misadventures performing in 45 States, to Marriage Equality street protests, to the electoral assaults on gay folks all over the country, to his life as a grade-school flag monitor, to choking on cheap meat caught in his 10 year old gay boy's throat, LAY OF THE LAND friskily gets at that feeling of gay folks being perpetually on trial, on the ballot, and on the menu!
Miller's LAY OF THE LAND enters territory as exhilarating as it is meaningful. Miller lays out his unapologetically renegade viewpoint with exemplary economy and sardonic humor. Marriage equality is the thematic undercurrent against which reminiscences of various activist and performance landmarks coalesce into something larger than the sum of their considerable parts. The final apotheosis stands high in Miller's canon, which, together with the overarching relevance, makes Lay of the Land a vivid, must-see achievement.
-David Nichols, The Los Angeles Times
As the newest of Miller's internationally acclaimed solo performances, LAY OF THE LAND takes on a fierce and funny examination of citizenship and who eats and who gets eaten. Framed by a No on Prop 8 protest in downtown L.A., Miller makes pit stops as Abraham and his gay son Isaac are spread out on a L.A. 70's suburban Formica kitchen, the L.A. Courthouse explodes in pink jury summons that call queer identity to judgment, and a vision of a Heimlich Manuever that helps us get out of this mess! LAY OF THE LAND is a lay in all kinds of ways: a sex-assignation, a queer citizenship map, and of course a narrative ballad with a recurrent refrain! (Miller's favorite way-down-the-list definition for lay!)
TIM MILLER is an internationally acclaimed solo performer. Hailed for its humor and passion, Miller's performance works have delighted and emboldened audiences all over the world at such prestigious venues as Yale Repertory Theatre, the London Institute of Contemporary Art, the Walker Art Center, Actors Theatre of Louisville and the Brooklyn Academy of Music Next Wave Festival. He is the author of the books SHIRTS & SKIN, BODY BLOWS, and 1001 BEDS, an anthology of his performances and essays which won the 2007 Lambda Literary Award for best book in Drama-Theatre. Miller has taught performance at UCLA, NYU and the Claremont School of Theology. He is a
co-founder of two of the most influential performance spaces in the United States: Performance Space 122 on Manhattan's Lower East Side and Highways Performance Space in Santa Monica, CA. For more information check his website
TimMillerPerformer.com
La SITI - PROMO - American Actors Theatre Scholarship
Rome based drama school and theater, La SITI, the International School of Improvisation and Theater, is opening its doors to international students by offering $11,000 worth of one-year scholarships for American actors.
Qualified students will be able to learn Italian theatrical technique, produce original shows and perform throughout the year in different theaters and festivals across Italy and Europe.
Worth $11,000, the scholarships are being offered to American students interested in attending La SITI in Rome.
WHEN
The first round of scholarship submissions will September 1, 2017 and end September 2017.
The second round ends in October and last round of submissions will be accepted at the end of November.
WHAT IS THE SCHOLARSHIP ABOUT?
Qualified students will learn from some of the best actors, directors, writers, authors and improv specialists in Italy.
They will learn authentic Italian theatrical art, such as Commedia dell’Arte, Giorgio Strehler or Federico Fellini, while producing their own pieces in original format with shows touring throughout the year in beautiful theatres across Rome.
“Acting is a unique and beautiful art form. We are thrilled to be able to teach and pass down our knowledge of Italian theater technique through our Empathy Method to international students,” said the co-foundder Maria Beatrice Alonzi.
“We don’t teach students to act, we teach students how to be an actor.”
ABOUT US
La SITI, the International School of Improvisation and theater, is an International Production Center and Drama School in Rome. Its goal is to create the figure of an entrepreneur actor.
La SITI offers professional classes in acting, movement, directing, writing, music, voice, history of theatre and also marketing, digital strategy, mobile photography.
La SITI’s first purpose is to prepare the actors to be ready to work. Students are expected to be involved in photo shooting, video making, and learning how to become protagonists of their own career providing them professionals, specialist and a personal PR Office during all the year. The teachers of the school are professionals from all over the world.
The actors learn how to play through the MIT® Method(IT website), a method used to teach acting through empathy, which helps to develop creative freedom and improve artistic capabilities for life.
Read more on theatrescholarship.com
Actors Theatre's The Adventures of Tom Sawyer: Interviews with Laura Eason and Jeremy B. Cohen
Playwright Laura Eason and director Jeremy B. Cohen discuss Laura's adaptation of The Adventures of Tom Sawyer, part of Actors Theatre's 2011-12 season.
The Adventures of Tom Sawyer
by Laura Eason
adapted from the novel by Mark Twain
directed by Jeremy B. Cohen
onstage at Actors Theatre October 4 - 29
Step back in time with Tom Sawyer, Huckleberry Finn and friends in this magical new adaptation of the greatest summer adventure ever told—complete with pranks, graveyards, caves and buried treasure. Anyone who has ever been a kid will relive all that is grand and glorious about childhood as our mischievous hero wins the girl, charms the grownups, and brings a local criminal to justice, all in the course of one small-town day.
Residence Inn Louisville Downtown in Louisville KY
Rates: . . . . . . . .. .. ... . . . . Residence Inn Louisville Downtown 333 East Market Street Louisville KY 40202 Just one block from Louisville Slugger Field and a 10 minute walk from the Actor's Theater, this hotel features an indoor pool and suites with flat-screen TVs and free Wi-Fi. The Downtown Louisville Residence Inn offers accommodations with a sofa bed and a complete kitchen with stove, microwave, and dishwasher. Cookware and dishware are provided. Residence Inn Louisville Downtown hosts an on-site gym and hot tub. Guests can enjoy the convenience of concierge and room service. Babysitting services are also available. A continental breakfast is served daily. The Louisville Zoo is 15 minutes from Residence Inn Louisville Downtown. Louisville International Airport is also 15 minutes from the hotel.
Frank X Walker: Affrilachian Poet | Snapshot Bio
Multidisciplinary artist Frank X Walker is a native of Danville, Ky., a graduate of the University of Kentucky, and completed an MFA in Writing at Spalding University in May 2003. He has lectured, conducted workshops, read poetry and exhibited at over 300 national conferences and universities including the Verbal Arts Centre in Derry, Northern Ireland; Santiago, Cuba; University of California at Berkeley; Notre Dame; Louisiana State University at Alexandria; University of Washington; Virginia Tech; Radford University; and Appalachian State University.
A founding member of the Affrilachian Poets, he is the editor of America! What's My Name? The Other Poets Unfurl the Flag (Wind Publications, 2007) and Eclipsing a Nappy New Millennium and the author of four poetry collections: When Winter Come: the Ascension of York (University Press of Kentucky, 2008); Black Box (Old Cove Press, 2005); Buffalo Dance: the Journey of York (University Press of Kentucky, 2003), winner of the 35th Annual Lillian Smith Book Award; and Affrilachia (Old Cove Press, 2000), a Kentucky Public Librarians' Choice Award nominee.
A Kentucky Arts Council Al Smith Fellowship recipient, Walker's poems have been converted into a stage production by the University of Kentucky Theatre department and widely anthologized in numerous collections; including The Appalachian Journal, Limestone, Roundtable, My Brothers Keeper, Spirit and Flame: An Anthology of Contemporary African American Poetry and Role Call: A Generational Anthology of Social and Political Black Literature and Art. He is a former contributing writer and columnist for Ace Weekly and the first Kentucky writer to be featured on NPR's This I Believe.
Other new work appeared recently in Mischief, Caprice & Other Poetic Strategies (Red Hen Press), Tobacco (Kentucky Writers Coalition), Kentucky Christmas (University Press of Kentucky), Cornbread Nation III, Kudzu, The Kentucky Anthology: Two Hundred Years of Writing in the Bluegrass (University Press of Kentucky) and the Louisville Review.
He has appeared on television in PBS's GED Connection Series, Writing: Getting Ideas on Paper, in In Performance At the Governor's Mansion and in Living the Story: The Civil Rights Movement in Kentucky. He contributed to Writing Our Stories: An Anti-Violence Creative Writing Program Curriculum Guide developed by the Alabama Writer's Forum and the Alabama Department of Youth Services. He co-produced a video documentary, Coal Black Voices: the History of the Affrilachian Poets, which received the 2002-2003 Jesse Stuart Award presented by the Kentucky School Media Association, and produced a documentary exploring the effects of 9.11 on the arts community, KY2NYC: Art/life & 9.11. His visual art is in the private collections of Spike Lee, Opal Palmer Adisa, Morris FX Jeff, and Bill and Camille Cosby.
Articles about Frank and the Affrilachian Poets can be seen in Kentucky Monthly and Arts Across Kentucky.
Walker has served as founder/Executive Director of the Bluegrass Black Arts Consortium, the Program Coordinator of the University of Kentucky's King Cultural Center and the Assistant Director of Purdue University's Black Cultural Center. The University of Kentucky awarded Walker an honorary Doctorate of Humanities in 2001 for his collective community work and artistic achievements. Transylvania University awarded Walker an honorary Doctor of Letters degree in 2002.
He is the recipient of the 2006 Thomas D. Clark Literary Award for Excellence, Actors Theatre's Keeper of the Chronicle Award and a 2005 Recipient of a $75,000 Lannan Literary Fellowship in Poetry.
He has held board positions for the Kentucky Humanities Council, Appalshop and the Kentucky Writers Coalition as well as a government appointment to Cabinet for Education, Arts & Humanities and the Committee on Gifted Education. He has served as vice president of the Kentucky Center for the Arts and the executive director of Kentucky's Governor's School for the Arts.
Walker regularly teaches in writing programs like Fishtrap in Oregon and SplitRock at the University of Minnesota; currently serves as Associate Professor in the Department of English at the University of Kentucky; and is the proud editor and publisher of PLUCK!, the new Journal of Affrilachian Art & Culture.
Episode 49. Brian Quail - CEO, Louisville Area Cptr, American Red Cross - MoxieTalk with Kirt Jacobs
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Episode 49. Brian Quail - Past CEO, Louisville Area Chapter of the American Red Cross
Interviewed 12-05-2007
ABOUT BRIAN QUAIL
Brian Quail is passionate about the work and mission of the American Red Cross.
Quail is the CEO of the American Red Cross Louisville Area Chapter which covers 31 counties in Kentucky and Southern Indiana. The American Red Cross provides relief to victims of disasters and helps people prevent, prepare for, and respond to emergencies.
BIOGRAPHY & FULL LENGTH EPISODE
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MoxieTalk, where we give you an intimate look into the courage, character, and defining moments of today’s most inspiring individuals.
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Episode 74. Paul Lenzi - Past Executive Director, Blue Apple Players - MoxieTalk with Kirt Jacobs
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Episode 74. Paul Lenzi - Past Executive Director, Blue Apple Players
Interviewed 12-05-2008
ABOUT PAUL LENZI
Driven by the need for, and impact of, arts education on young people, Paul Lenzi and his wife, Geraldine, co-founded the Blue Apple Players Theatre Group a children’s theatre company. As its executive director, Lenzi helps lead the group while they present plays and original musicals throughout the region. The group also provides workshops in schools, focusing in theatre and structured improvisation to help drive student growth. Topics include difficult and real life challenges young people face on a daily basis.
Lenzi came to Louisville as a theatre graduate from Florida State University and after he worked in public relations for several Florida-based theatre companies.
BIOGRAPHY & FULL LENGTH EPISODE
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Blood Moon: Libretto by Ellen McLaughlin & Composed by Garrett Fisher
BLOOD MOON | World Premiere Opera-Theatre | 90 minutes
January 9, 12, 15–17 at 7:30pm | January 11 at 2pm at Baruch Performing Arts Center
Composed by Garrett Fisher
Libretto by Ellen McLaughlin
Direction by Rachel Dickstein
Music direction by Steven Osgood
Blood Moon is a poetic, opera-theatre piece for three characters who encounter the past on the night of a full moon: a nephew who returns to the mountain-top where he left his aunt to die forty years earlier, the ghost of the aunt he abandoned, and the moon that presides over this night of reckoning. A contemporary response to a 15th century Noh play, Blood Moon uses choreography, puppetry, and a Taiko-infused score to create a meditation on the end of life, the nature of joy, regret, and whether atonement is possible.
Co-presented with Baruch Performing Arts Center in partnership with Japan Society
Produced and commissioned by Beth Morrison Projects
Blood Moon is made possible by the New York State Council on the Arts with the support of Governor Andrew M. Cuomo and the New York State Legislature, and by public funds from The New York City Department of Cultural Affairs in partnership with the City Council.
GARRETT FISHER, Composer
Artistic Director Garrett Fisher’s music-driven theatrical and film world combines opera, dance, Indian raga, Noh theater and film which The New York Times describes as fusions that have both a ritualistic intensity and an improvisatory freedom…a groundbreaking hybrid...a strong, unified and strikingly individual utterance of unambiguous beauty. Based on a collaborative process that allows performers their own interpretations, his pieces cohesively integrate a diversity of influences that defy any specific genre or tradition.
Garrett has created more than 12 full-length multimedia pieces that have been premiered in Seattle, New York, Los Angeles, and Cologne, Germany. These include: The Passion of Saint Thomas More, Moon in the Bucket, Stargazer, Silk Road, Psyche, The Passion of Saint Sebastian and At the Hawk’s Well. Wall Street Journal critic Brett Campbell writes: “Among American composers of his generation, Garrett stands out because of the way he’s assimilated such diverse global musical and other artistic influences into a distinctive, original, yet listener-friendly sound. And he’s successfully created a strong collaborative process for making multimedia productions that may be a sustainable model for independent twenty-first-century American composers.”
ELLEN MCLAUGHLIN, Librettist
Ellen McLaughlin's plays have received numerous national and international productions. They include Days and Nights Within, A Narrow Bed, Infinity's House, Iphigenia and Other Daughters, Tongue of a Bird, The Trojan Women, Helen, The Persians, Oedipus, Ajax in Iraq, Kissing the Floor, Septimus and Clarissa, and Penelope. Producers include: the Public Theater, The National Actors' Theater and New York Theater Workshop in NYC, Actors' Theater of Louisville, The Actors' Gang L.A., Classic Stage Co., N.Y., The Intiman Theater, Seattle, Almeida Theater, London, The Mark Taper Forum, L.A., The Oregon Shakespeare Festival, The Getty Villa, California., and The Guthrie Theater, Minnesota, among other venues.
Grants and awards include: Helen Merrill Award for Playwriting, Great American Play Contest, Susan Smith Blackburn Prize, the NEA, the Writer's Award from the Lila Wallace-Reader's Digest Fund, the Berilla Kerr Award for playwrighting. T.C.G./Fox Residency Grant -- for Ajax in Iraq, written for the A.R.T. Institute.
She has taught playwriting at Barnard College since 1995. Other teaching posts include Breadloaf School of English, Yale Drama School and Princeton University, among others.
Ms. McLaughlin is also an actor. She is most well known for having originated the part of the Angel in Tony Kushner's Angels in America, appearing in every U.S. production from its earliest workshops through its Broadway run.
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Wolfpack Performing Arts presents Welga by Conrad Panganiban
This November, Wolfpack Performing Arts will present the high school premiere of Conrad Panganiban’s Welga, a Filipino American coming-of-age story of a high school teen, Johnny Montalban, whose dreams of becoming a famous musician clash with his mother’s dream of him first earning his diploma. Set in San Francisco’s SOMA Neighborhood, the play explores family conflict against the backdrop of today’s educational system, ongoing community pressures, and the legacy of Filipinos in the farm labor movement that sparked the 1965 Delano Grape Strike.
Welga means “strike” in Tagalog. While the story is centered around a teenage boy in present day, the play beautifully intertwines the story of Larry Itliong, a Filipino American leader who helped lead a farm workers revolution. When it comes to labor unions and farmers rights in California, most people know the contributions of Cesar Chavez and his leadership of the United Farm Workers. The United Farm Workers gained notoriety as the face of a strike of grape pickers in the 1960s that prompted an international boycott of table grapes. But the part of that movement’s history that’s rarely told is the contributions of Filipino farming organizations. It was the Filipino farm workers who were the catalyst for the Delano Grape Strike which lasted for nearly five years.
About the Author
Conrad A. Panganiban is a San Francisco Bay Area playwright. His plays include WELGA, INAY’S WEDDING DRESS, THE PERFECT AMERICAN, and ESPERANZA MEANS HOPE. Conrad’s work has been produced and/or developed by Bindlestiff Studio (San Francisco), CIRCA Pintig (Chicago), San Francisco Playhouse, MaArte Theatre Collective (San Diego), and the Sinag-tala Filipino Theatrical Performing Arts Association (SFTPAA). Awards include: James Milton Highsmith Award Winner (San Francisco State University), National Ten-Minute Play Festival Finalist (Actors Theatre of Louisville), and Bay Area Playwrights Festival Semi-Finalist (Playwrights Foundation). Member: Dramatist Guild of America and Theatre Bay Area. MFA. San Francisco State University. conradpanganiban.com | @consplayspace
Wolfpack Performing Arts is the award-winning performing arts company of Cosumnes Oaks High School and Elizabeth Pinkerton Middle School. Each year, the company produces four instrumental and vocal concert series, a mainstage dance production (HYPE Dance Co), and four mainstage theatrical productions each year. Our company strives to provide students with a professional experience in the performing arts. To achieve this goal, WPA employs professional teaching artists who serve as directors, choreographers, and musicians during our musical season. Our company is one of the few companies in the region that continues to perform musicals with a full, live orchestra of 25+ members. The cast of Welga includes: Jerique Suba, Alejandra Cardona-Guzmán, Aisha Helton, Haley McKnight, Drexel Agoncillo, Carina Powner, Kamea Mims, Naomi Pannell, Rea Rufo, Kylie Lang, Sam DeLoffi, Maddie Burke, Ty Burke, Mia Redding, Evelyn Love, Shannon Jolly, Jessica White, Tonalli Berumen, Miranda Abejuela, and Irene Milanez.
Opening night for Welga is Friday, November 8 @ 7 PM. Show dates and times are as follows:
November 14 @ 6 PM
November 8 & 15 @ 7 PM
November 9 & 16 @ 2 PM and 7 PM
$10 General Admission • $8 Presale • $25 VIP • $7 Group Rate (12 or more)
Get your tickets now at universe.com/wpawelga
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Elk Grove, CA 95757
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Episode 64. Brenda Light - Former Owner, Light Touch Day Spa - MoxieTalk with Kirt Jacobs
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Episode 64. Brenda Light - Former Owner, Light Touch Day Spa
Interviewed 05-30-2008
ABOUT BRENDA LIGHT
Brenda Light’s desire is to help women not only look and feel their best but to empower them as well.
Light is the founder of Light Touch Spa, an accredited day spa center in Louisville, Ky. Light was a pioneer in the skin care business. When she founded Light Touch in 1981 she had to think outside of the box as it was one of only 64 day spas in the United States.
BIOGRAPHY & FULL LENGTH EPISODE
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MoxieTalk, where we give you an intimate look into the courage, character, and defining moments of today’s most inspiring individuals.
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Solo Mission
Standing proudly in front of a B-25 Mitchell on display for a recent airshow in the central Texas town of Burnet, retired Lt. Col. Richard Cole slowly walked up to the antique bomber and clutched one of its propeller blades. The last surviving Doolittle Raider, who had just marked his 101st birthday a few days before, smiled as he reminisced in the shadow of the bomber -- a link to his storied past. Seventy-plus years ago, he co-piloted a similar bomber alongside then-Lt. Col. James Doolittle during a pivotal mission April 18, 1942, that helped turn the tide for the allies in the Pacific theater of World War II.
U.S. Air Force video by: Andrew Arthur Breese
A Special Message from Peter Sinn Nachtrieb