Ghost Hunting, Fashion Design, Painting, Race Car Driving, The Fourth Interest in any list of interests, Tantric Sex, Joan Van Ark, Chicken Wings, Billy Bragg, Yip Harburg, Woodwork, Music (Playing and Listening), Sculpting, Traveling, Tennis, rocking the fuck out onstage and as part of an audience, reading good comic books, learning, Chinese kung fu, playing lots of video games, women, scotch, cigars, cooking, history, hawaiiana, dancing, horses, books, making movies, tattoos, stirring things up, nipple tape, pedicures, comic books, animal rescue, subtitles, unfettered theatrical moments, Shakespeare, original plays, up-and-comers, surviving
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Music
Dread Daze, The Lampshades, To The Dogs, The Misnomers, Rokken, Cheap Perfume, Brando's Pants, The Black Orchid Trio, The Glowering Eyes, Arcanta, Velvet Underground, Scissor Sisters, GWAR, The Band, Built to Spill, David Bowie, Porcupine Tree, Loopstation, Cat Empire, Renfield, GOGOL BORDELLO, Fishbone, Pink Floyd, Genesis, The Pogues, Hypercrush, Brothers Cazimero, Van Morrison, Depeche Mode, The Pixies, The Fuxedos, Lovespirals, The Black Channel Citizen
Movies
Zen Noir, Outta Sync, Scream of the Bikini, April Fool's Day, Lurking in Suburbia, The Metrosexual, Motel, Cult Culture: The Poseidon Adventure, A Galaxy Far Far Away, Lake City, The Hills Have Eyes, Vampire Clan, Gifted, Tulpa, The Creature Hunter, The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, The Witch & The Wardrobe, Edwurd Fudwupper Fibs Big, Falling, The Kid & I, Lake Dead, North Country, Gretchen Brettschneider Skirts 30, The Bacchae, The Men's Room, Failure to Launch, Amazon Women on the Moon, Red Is the Color Of, Shooting Blanks, A Perfect Pitch, Terminator 3: Rise of the Machines, The Trouble With Romance, Your Own Best Enemy, Mixing Nia, Hard, That Time of Year, Left-Overs, The Pool, Before the Bell Rang, Poker, Fight Club, Magnolia, Ghost World, The Prestige, David Fincher's Zodiac, Leatherheads, A Slow Burn, Het, Clockin' Green, Sometimes Santa's Gotta Get Whacked, The Sunday Morning Stripper, D.E.B.S., Oh-My-God-Frances, Art School Confidential, Irascible, The Longest Yard, Spanish Fly, Stardust, Scrambled Eggs, The Four Corners of Nowhere, Personal Jesus, Killer Flick, In My Sleep, Voyeur.com, Killer Flick, Auto Focus, The Book of Mormon Movie, Volume I: The Journey, Star Trek: Generations, A-List, Everybody Wants to Be Italian, To End All Wars, Zombie Cult Massacre, Chinatown, The Player, Dinner, Love and Loathing at the Ass Lamp Lounge, A Galaxy Far Far Away Is This Klone Revolt?, Red Is The Color Of, Dr. Strangelove, The Four Corners of Nowhere, Whatever Happened to Kathy, The Last Days of Disco, The Poughkeepsie Tapes, The Adventures of Umbweki, Once, Naked, Blade Runner, Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas, Danika, Crazylove, Across Five Aprils, I-See-You.com, Mixing Nia, Barriofiesta, Salon Kitty, Edward Scissorhands, The Rise and Fall of Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders From Mars, Night of the Living Dead
Television
Criminal Minds, The Money $hot, The Wedding Bells, Cold Case, Reno 911!, Judging Amy, Boston Public, Las Vegas, Silk Stalkings, Ally McBeal, Gustopher, The Gilmore Girls, What About Brian, Deadwood, America's Next Top Model, Project Runway, Ally McBeal, Dharma and Greg, Bliss, Chop Suey TV, Beat The Geeks, Guiding Light, USA Up All Night, The Wire, Corner Gas, ER, Passions, General Hospital, Skin, Ghost Whisperer, Mad Men, Grey's Anatomy, Monk, Charmed, Lucky Louie, Big Love, Malcolm in the Middle, 7th Heaven, Six Feet Under, Angel, Family Law, The Court, General Hospital: Night Shift, C.S.I., Alias, The Practice, Drake & Josh, The District, Central Park West, As The World Turns, Carnivale, Lost, Get a Life, Home Movies, Sifl and Olly, Taxicab Confessions
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Books
How To Make It In Hollywood, Sylvia Likens : The Indiana Torture Slaying, Wicked, Don't Sweat the Small Stuff (And It's All Small Stuff), Dracula, Stiff, World War Z, Dharma Bums, Beautiful Stories For Ugly People, The Guns of August, The Fountainhead, Crime and Punishment, A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius, Franny & Zooey, Dandelion Wine, HOUSE OF LEAVES, GEEK LOVE, DARK CARNIVAL, HOUDINI!!!, Watchmen, Catch 22, The Grapes of Wrath, The Big Nowhere, The U.S.A. Trilogy, the entire Three Musketeers saga, 100 Years of Solitude, His Dark Materials, Pride & Prejudice, Complete Works of William Shakespeare, Letters To A Young Poet, Temple Of My Familiar, East of Eden, Shark Dialogues, Leo The Late Bloomer, Loving the Alien, The Passion, The Witching Hour, The Celery Stalks at Midnight
Heroes
Every NOTE ensemble member past and present that has sweat, bled and cried for the cause.
Current NOTE members:
Justin Alston, David Bickford, Steven Biggs, Hiwa Bourne, Justin Brinsfield, Celia Anne Browne, Ezra Buzzington, Sofie Calderon, Kathleen Mary Carthy, Blaire Chandler, Lisa Clifton, Carolyn Connolly, Phillip C. Curry, Amy Danielson, Jonas Dickson, Alice Dodd, Reena Dutt, Grace Eboigbe, Joe Egender, Jennifer Ann Evans, Jeffrey Emerson, Laura Finnegan, Erin Fleming, Michelle Gardner, Linda Graves, Dawn Greenidge, Lucy Griffin, Karl Herlinger, Michelle Hillyard, Ronald Hoffman, Carl J. Johnson, Lisa Kenner, Phinny Kiyomura, Jonathan Klein, Rebecca Larsen, Dean Lemont, Lauren Letherer, Judith Ann Levitt, Sarah Lilly, Elizabeth Liang, Brad C. Light, John MacKane, Monroe Makowsky, Nancy McFarland, Patrick McGowan, David L.M. McIntyre, Scott McKinley, Tony Michelman, John Money, Ron Morehouse, Mandi Moss, Christopher Neiman, Lynn Odell, Trevor Olsen, Alina Phelan, Rich PierreLouis, Julia Prud'homme, Shana Ledet Qualls, Marz Richards, Bill Robens, Spencer I. Robinson, Joe Roche, Lacey Rouse, Andrea Ruth, Marja-Lewis Ryan, Gabby Sanalitro, Darrett Sanders, Joel Scher, Kiff Scholl, Gina Garcia Sharp, Lake Sharp, Rebecca Sigl, Stewart Skelton, Jayne Taini, Terry Tocantins, Bree Todish, Edward Tournier, Camden Toy, Inger Tudor, Kirsten Vangsness, Andrea Kim Walker, Kelsey Wedeen, Rich Werner, Wendi West, David Wilcox, Esther Williams, Nick Williams, Mark MClain Wilson, Dan Wingard, Patric Z, and Andrew Zystem
Playwright - Bill Robens
Director- Kiff Scholl
Stage Manager - Carolyn Connolly
Set Design - Davis Campbell
Light Design - Matt Richter
Sound Design - Adam Phalen
Costume Design - Kimberly Freed
Makeup Design - Jennifer Aspinall
Wigs/ Hair Design - James Freitas
Props - Keith Allan
Scenic Painter - Scott Siedman
Multi-Media Designer - Darrett Sanders
Fight Choreographer - Caleb Terray
Producer - John Money
Co-producer: Caroline Kuperstock
Starring: Dean Lemont, Kirsten Vangsness*
Kathleen Mary Carthy*, Nicholas S. Williams, Lynn Odell,* Darrett Sanders, Joe Roche, Phinneas Kiyomura, Keith Allan*, Megan Bartle*, Ezra Buzzington,* Wendi West
*Members of Actors’ Equity Association, the Union of Professional Actors and Stage Managers in the United States
6/26 - 8/01 FRI/SAT at 8 and Sun at 7
Tickets $22 Seniors/Students $18
Preview 6/25/09
We are located at: 1517 N. Cahuenga (just north of Sunset)
Hollywood, CA 90028
Reservations By Phone (subject to availability): 323.856.8611
Theatre of NOTE is a not for profit theatre with a full 501 (c)3 status. Donations are tax deductible to the fullest extent of the law.
Who I'd like to meet:
Theatre of Note ("Note" serving as an acronym for "New One-Act Theatre Ensemble") was founded in 1981 by U.C. Irvine grads Kevin Carr, Gary Lamb, Jim Schendel, Art Cybulski and Mare Gordon. Initially intended to showcase what was at the time an under-appreciated form, Note now produces an average of five plays per year with an emphasis on world, west coast, California, and Los Angeles premieres (including works such as Bertolt Brecht's The Duchess of Malfi and Tony Kushner's A Bright Room Called Day). Note also produces the famous annual Hollywood Performance Marathon, the late night Original Five-Minute One Act Play Series, Noteworthy new play development workshops, and our educational outreach program The Young Writer's project.
Note has earned consistent commendation from the Los Angeles Press and national acclaim from such publications as American Theatre Magazine, as well as dozens of accolades, nominations and honors from every award-granting theatre alliance in Southern California.
Winner of the 2007 Reader's Choice Awards for Backstage Magazine, Note is a favorite among audiences avidly seeking its challenging subject matter and uncanny, ingenious use of the beloved black-box space on Cahuenga in Hollywood.
Step into Theatre of Note. You never know if you'll be licked...or bitten.
"It is the quintessential L.A. black box,...I have seen this narrow, unforgiving space transformed by novel seating arrangements, by innovative designers and directors, but above all by a bunch of actors, a rotating ensemble of wildly various types with a remarkably consistent theatrical orientation:...Indeed, among L.A.'s edgy theatre companies, Theatre of NOTE stands out not just for its wide, weird talent pool,... but for the raw, rangy aesthetic they've developed. These actors do new plays (and the occasional old one) with a disarmingly earnest hunger and a vigorous, unwinking playfulness that's less about perfect theatrical craft than about creating true, unfettered theatrical moments. And while this is the ultimate mission of any true theatre artist, few L.A. actors' groups do it with the same bracing commitment, year in and year out. ...But NOTE is more ragged, more diverse, less deliberate, more punk, basically, than its circumspect peers. L.A. theatre has many great actors at its disposal, and too few indigenous treasures like Theatre of NOTE, where such actors can stretch and fail with grace, or stretch and land home with direct impact." - Rob Kendt, Back Stage West
Mission Statement : We at Theatre of NOTE are an enduring ensemble of diverse theatre artists in the heart of Hollywood who inspire, inform, and ignite our audiences by discovering courageous voices and creating entertaining, provocative, and revelatory theatrical works.
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“(Jacob) Smith and (Vanessa) Hurd provide charm and skill, making the most of their material…” Review of Tracing Sonny by Neal Weaver – LA Weekly, June 2009
“This play holds lots of charm, wit, and possesses a healthy amount of emotional drama without being all sappy about it!” Review of Tracing Sonny by Rich Borowy – Accessibility Live, June 2009
“Andrew Moore's play is truly character driven, and its story contains a lot of simple episodes that one can actually relate to!” Review of Tracing Sonny by Rich Borowy – Accessibility Live, June 2009
“Tracing Sonny is one of those theater gems out there that can make one laugh, sigh, and can show that life can lead one in the right direction!” Review of Tracing Sonny by Rich Borowy – Accessibility Live, June 2009
HUZZAH! Theatre Unleashed is proud to present The World's Smallest Renaissance Faire, a family friendly experience in the heart of North Hollywood! Come join King Gregory the Just for a day of games, live entertainment, food, crafts and fabulous faire folk! The World's Smallest Renaissance Faire is the shortest drive for Angelenos looking for an authentic Ren Faire experience to share with their families. Prithee, join us!
When: May 16th, 2009 @ 10am-6pm Where: The Avery Schreiber Theatre in North Hollywood General Admission: $10 (kids 7 and under Free!) Check out Theatre Unleashed, a Los Angeles Theatre Company for more information.
Theatre Unleashed presents DIE GRUPPE in Last Night's Appetizers!!! Theatre Unleashed presents its FIRST EVER original almost sketch comedy show…cause really, who wants to laugh ALL the time!? Wait, what? We’re supposed to make people laugh?! Screw them! I didn’t join a theatre company to make people laugh. I’m an artist, I wanna make people feel emotionally…raped! Well, fine…this one time. Is the show at least “R” rated? Yes! Will people be able to drink? Stupid question. Hell, yes! Do we have any idea what we’re doing? Do we have to?! There’s liquor! We DO know that we’ll be performing “deleted” scenes from our 2008 Main Stage Season though…and that’s awesome!
When: February 2nd, 7:30 PM-9:30 PM Where: El Cid in Hollywood [web site] [directions] Cost: $10..
Hey NOTE! Congratulations on you FOUR Ovation nominations! Kathleen Carthy, Darrett Sanders, Joe Egender and Erik Patterson! That's a lot of Ovation noms!
I had what I thought was a small scrape on top of my left wrist. It itched for days. Finally, I looked at it with magnification, and found that it looks like a bite, a spider bite. Apparently, that spider web that formed before I finished the lawn, which I walked into blindly after dark, hosted such a sneak attack against me. Incidentally, my most recent ghost photo shoot was on the spider theme. I didn't know till I got home, and looked at the photos.
