PREVIEWS | JULY 16-18
OPENING NIGHT | JULY 19
CLOSING NIGHT | AUGUST 25
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After committing an unforgivable crime, Leroy is granted one final wish: a chance to make amends with his long-lost lover Berta. Their reunion swells from a quarrelsome conjuring of the past to an impassioned plot to escape their impending fate.
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Angelica Cheri is a playwright, bookwriter & lyricist, screenwriter and poet. Her plays include The Seeds of Abraham (Billie Holiday Theatre), The Sting of White Roses (National Black Theatre Festival), Crowndation (National Black Theatre), Berta, Berta (Contemporary American Theatre Festival; Everyman Theatre), and The Wiring & the Switches (Geffen Writers Group). Angelica and collaborator Ross Baum received the Richard Rodgers Award for their musical Gun & Powder (Signature Theatre). Angelica is co-writer of the Highway to Heaven series reboot on the Lifetime Network and story producer for Season 2 of Dear… on Apple TV+. Angelica received her BA in Theatre from UCLA, MFA in Playwriting from Columbia University, and MFA in Musical Theatre Writing from NYU.
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Andi Chapman is a Director, Actor, and Educator.
Ms. Chapman is the Associate Artistic Director of The Ebony Repertory Theatre.
Her stage directing credits include: Macbeth and Toni Morrison’s The Bluest Eye at A Noise Within, “This Bright Wilderness “(A celebration of Black Theater at the Mark Taper Forum) “ SHE” World premiere at the Anteaus Theatre; the critically acclaimed Native Son at Anteaus & Amp; Kirk Douglas Theatre, garnering Best Director nominations (Stage Raw & Broadway World). Ebony Repertory Theatre’s The Gospel at Colonus which garnered 14 Ovation Nominations including Best Play & Best Play Direction, and won the 2016 NAACP Theatre Award for Best Production. Others include the world premiere of BOTH AND (a play about laughing while Black). At Boston Court; The Abuelas, A Winters Tale, Mockingbird, As it is in Heaven, The Ninth Wave, The Actor’s Co-op Steel Magnolias (for which she garnered a Best Director Award), The Dutchman, A Summer Memory, and a host of others.
Film: The Three Phases of Isa. The award-winning short films Memorial St, Elijah’s song, and Why.
As an Actress her television, film, and stage credits include recurring on shows like 911 and The Orville HTGAWM, Criminal Minds, NCIS, SMLF, Shameless, Glee, Dexter, 24, Six Feet Under, andShort Cuts. The Lower Depths, Blood Wedding.
An Adjunct Professor, she currently is teaching for Film/Theatre Acting at Azusa Pacific University. Ms. Chapman is a graduate of the New York High School for the Performing Arts. B.F.A./ The City College of New York’s Davis Center for the Performing Arts. M.F.A./ The Yale School of Drama. An alumna of The American Film Institute’s Directing Workshop for Women.
Andi is also a selected participant of the Lincoln Center Directors Lab.
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with DeJuan Christopher and Kacie Rogers
Produced by Chris Fields and Joy DeMichelle
Scenic design | Amanda Knehans
Costume design | Wendell Carmichael
Lighting design | Andrew Schmedeke
Sound design | Jeff Gardner
Production stage manager | Bianca Rickheim
Feast
A bold, immersive political horror play by Stephen Laughton
Set over the course of one night... and one ritual... it tells the story of a carefully curated dinner that spirals into a rebellion... a rebellion that unearths a reckoning... and a reckoning that ends in a sacrifice.
August 24th at 7:30PM, August 28th at 8PM
Pay-what-you-can (suggested $15)
FOR WANT OF A HORSE
by Olivia DuFault | directed by Elana Luo
Postponed to 2026
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Calvin loves Bonnie, but in order to proceed forward, he has to open up their relationship to include his new romantic partner, Q-Tip. One complication: Q-Tip is a horse. An intimate, comedic, complicated look into the world of zoophilia.
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Olivia Dufault (she/her) is a trans playwright, screenwriter, and comic book writer. Her plays include Year of the Rooster, The Tomb of King Tot, and For Want of a Horse. She is the recipient of the 2017 Venturous Playwrights Fellowship and the 2015 Playwrights of New York Fellowship. In television, she worked as story editor on AMC’S Preacher and co-executive producer on FX’s Legion. In film, she wrote the feature The True Adventures of Wolfboy. In comics, she wrote the upcoming graphic novel Laserworld.
An evening of monologues by the folks that enabled Trump and his crew to take over the country, written by extraordinary fancy playwrights and performed by extraordinary fancy actors.
WRITERS
Stephen Belber
June Carryl
Rick Cleveland
Bernardo Cubria
Lisa Dring
Jessica Goldberg
Stephen Adly Guirgis
Josh Halloway
Stephen Laughton
David Lindsay-Abaire
Hamish Linklater
Jay Martel
Marlane Meyer
Janine Nabers
Kira Obolensky
Matthew Paul Olmos
Erik Patterson
Daniel Talbott
Wes Walker
Guy Zimmerman
ACTORS
John Ales
Tasha Ames
Julia Cho
Sol Crespo
Julie Dretzin
Tom Irwin
Sharon Lawrence
Joshua Malina
Marlane Meyer
Jan Munroe
Rob Nagle
Melinda McGraw
Alan Ruck
Mitch Silpa
Casey Smith
Jenny Soo
Stephen Strobel
Michael Sturgis
Peter Van Norden
“A LOVE STORY THAT SOARS…”
— Carol Germain, Colorado Boulevard
March 22 - April 28
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Jesse, a nice Jewish boy from North London, falls hopelessly in love with Alex, a mixed-race woman from South London. How they struggle to stay in love as they are confronted with the world’s unpredictable cruelty is the biting, funny, bittersweet story of One Jewish Boy.
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Stephen Laughton is an award-winning, critically acclaimed writer with a rising international profile. He has work in various stages of development across film and theatre in NYC, LA, London, Cape Town, and Sydney. He has worked with major theatres and broadcasters including the Royal Court, MTC, Headlong, BBC, TF1 and Film4. He is an Associate Artist in the Astrophysics team at the American Museum of Natural History in New York.
Stephen has two major plays coming up in 2025: Giants, which explores the controversy that unfolded on the set of James Dean’s last film, is set to open at the Sydney Opera House; and Velocity – which examines mental health in the LGBTQ+ community through the lens of the birth of the universe, human reaction times, and dark matter – is set to open at the Hayden Planetarium in New York City.
For screen, his sci-fi short Hiraeth won 8 of the 20 awards it was nominated for on the international festival circuit. (Including Best Screenplay). Horror feature – We Live Here is currently being packaged in the US; Sci-fi feature – The Array, in South Africa. His comedy-drama, The Call, begins principal photography in spring of 2025. -
Sharae Foxie as Alex
Ezekiel Goodman as Jesse
Set design | Justin Huen
Costume design | Dianne Graebner
Light & sound design | Matt Richter
Production stage manager | Bianca Rickheim
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“A FASCINATING THEATRICAL EXPERIENCE… Never one to shy away from riveting subjects, Echo Theater Company is ripping the band-aid off slowly in their latest production… heartbreakingly authentic, powerful and disturbing.” — Carol Becker, Larchmont Buzz
“COMPLEX… TIMELY AND PROVOCATIVE… what happens when you scratch the fabric of society and discover the beauty and ugliness of human relationships?” — Joe Mosqueda, Glamgical
“TRUTHFUL… The writing is magnificent… two wonderful actors.” — Amalisha Hueck, Discover Hollywood
“A LOVE STORY THAT SOARS among deep wounds… kept the audience intrigued, immobilized, and hopeful.” — Carol Germain, Colorado Boulevard
“WOW!... GUT-PUNCHINGLY POWERFUL… exemplifies Los Angeles intimate theater at its edgy, hot-button best.” — Steven Stanley, Stage Scene LA
"DEEPLY FELT... [the] intimacy has a way of drawing out latent political tensions and making them intensely personal..." - Charles McNulty, Los Angeles Times
“EXCELLENT...See this show for its excellent work on the stage in the tradition of The Echo Theatre Company's continuing contribution to important theatre in Los Angeles. The art of it keeps our spirits alive in this time of crisis." — Michael Sheehan, On Stage Los Angeles
“A DYNANMIC WORK OF ART… Sharae Foxie and Zeke Goodman are incredible actors who find the love and charm in between the storms as their chemistry is the strongest asset to the play along with the stunning set design work by Justin Huen, and nuanced direction by Chris Fields.” — Edward Hong, The Nerds of Color