CENTER THEATRE GROUP’S GOING PRO CAREER FAIR WILL FEATURE KRISTINA WONG AND LUIS ALFARO AS PLENARY SPEAKERS
This annual free occasion is designed to assist present school and graduate college students and early-career people have entry to the abilities and networks they should thrive within the theatre trade.
Current school and graduate college students in addition to early-career people and school, college, and commerce tech educators are invited to register and attend Center Theatre Group’s Going Pro Career Fair. This free occasion might be on the Los Angeles Theater Center (LATC) in Downtown Los Angeles from 10 a.m. to three p.m. on Saturday, April 15, 2023. Speed mentoring appointments are additionally out there on-line from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. on Sunday, April 16, 2023.
Going Pro Career Fair will characteristic conversations about methods the theatre is evolving each on and off the stage, workshops to information the subsequent era of theatre practitioners of their skilled improvement, and in-person and digital networking alternatives. Free skilled headshots and one-on-ones with a pace mentor will even be out there by appointment. Speed mentoring will give contributors a chance to sit down down for an informational interview with an expert working of their profession of curiosity.
To register and for details about this occasion, go to centertheatregroup.org/goingpro.
The deadline to register for the Going Pro Career Fair is April 13 at 5 p.m. Pacific Time. The final day to request a Virtual Speed Mentoring appointment is April 10.
This 12 months’s theme is “May You Live in Interesting Times: When Your Life Becomes Your Art.” Performance Artist, Comedian, and Writer Kristina Wong and Performance Artist, Writer, Theatre Director, and Social Activist Luis Alfaro will converse to the contributors of the profession truthful. They will talk about the artistic course of and share their experience with utilizing artwork as a car to doc real-life experiences.
“As the largest regional theatre in Los Angeles, we believe in fostering lifelong connections within the theatre community,” stated Center Theatre Group Creative Workforce Initiatives Director Nico Rosario. “The Going Pro Career Fair is an effective way to put money into the upcoming
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era of theatre professionals and provides them the instruments they should thrive on this trade.”
Some of the contributors for the Resource Fair embrace: BLKLST, LA Anti-Racist Theatre Standards (LA ARTS), Backstage Casting, Actor’s Equity Association, Make-Up & Hair Stylist Guild Local 706, and SAG-AFTRA.
In addition to the plenary with Wong and Alfaro, workshops and panels are “What is Theatre? Explorations into the Evolution of Performance” with Sara Lyons (Writer and Director) and Lauren Ludwig (Writer and Director); “Come One, Come All! Making Accessible Theatre” with Dominique Beltran (Vaudeville Valley Troupe) and Jeremie Loncka (Prison Project at The Actor’s Gang); “Being Seen: Representation in the Los Angeles Theatre Community” with José Luis Valenzuela (LATC) and Bruce A. Lemon Jr. (Watts Village); “Your Best Selfie: Making the Perfect Audition Self-Tape” with Carene Mekertichyan (Independent Shakespeare Co.); “To MFA or Not to MFA?” with Christine Breihan (Loyola Marymount University); and “The Creative’s Guide to Finance: How To Budget for Your Life and Your Work” with Camille Schenkkan (Center Theatre Group and Cal State LA). The day will finish with an ice cream social, offering contributors the chance to community with their friends.
Center Theatre Group, one of many nation’s preeminent arts and cultural organizations, is Los Angeles’ main nonprofit theatre firm, which, below the management of Managing Director / CEO Meghan Pressman and Producing Director Douglas C. Baker, and in collaboration with the 4 Associate Artistic Directors, Lindsay Allbaugh, Tyrone Davis, Neel Keller and Kelley Kirkpatrick, packages seasons on the 736-seat Mark Taper Forum and 1,600 to 2,100-seat Ahmanson Theatre at The Music Center in Downtown Los Angeles, and the 317-seat Kirk Douglas Theatre in Culver City. In addition to presenting and producing the broadest vary of theatrical leisure within the nation, Center Theatre Group is among the nation’s main producers of bold new works by way of commissions and world premiere productions, and a frontrunner in interactive group engagement and education schemes that attain throughout generations, demographics, and circumstance to serve Los Angeles.
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BIOGRAPHIES:
Kristina Wong is a efficiency artist, actor, comic, author and elected consultant in Koreatown Los Angeles. Following its extremely acclaimed premiere at New York Theater Workshop, “Kristina Wong, Sweatshop Overlord,” was a New York Times Critics Pick. Wong was then named a Pulitzer Prize finalist in Drama (2022). “Kristina Wong, Sweatshop Overlord” additionally garnered a veritable awards sweep this 12 months together with The Drama Desk Award, The Lucille Lortel Award and The Outer Critics Circle Award. Wong’s different works have been offered throughout North America, the UK, Hong Kong and Africa. She’s been a
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visitor on late night time reveals on Comedy Central, NBC and FX. As a printed author, Wong’s work is included in Routledge’s “Contemporary Plays by Women of Color.” Wong wrote the introduction for “The Auntie Sewing Squad Guide To Mask Making, Radical Care and Racial Justice” printed by University of California Press. She additionally had Artist Residencies at MacDowell, Hermitage, Montalvo and Ojai Playwrights Festival. Wong’s work has been awarded with grants from Creative Capital, The MAP Fund, Center for Cultural Innovation, National Performance Network, a COLA Master Artist Fellowship from the Los Angeles Department of Cultural Affairs, 9 Los Angeles Artist-in-Residence awards, Center Theatre Group’s Sherwood Award, the Art Matters Foundation, and the Joan D. Firestone Commission from En Garde Arts. She is at the moment creating a brand new work throughout her three 12 months Artist-in-Residence at ASU Gammage and as a Social Practice Fellow on the Kennedy Center. Other main tasks embrace “Wong Flew Over The Cuckoo’s Nest,” “Going Green The Wong Way,” “The Wong Street Journal,” and “Kristina Wong for Public Office.” Other profession highlights embrace the Visionary Award from East West Players, “Local Hero Of The Year” nominee from KCET/ PBS, Asian Pacific Honoree from Fuse TV and the Best Of Arts Los Angeles challenge from LA Weekly. kristinawong.com
Luis Alfaro is a Chicano playwright born and raised in Downtown Los Angeles, he has acquired fellowships from the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation; United States Artists; Ford Foundation Art of Change; Joyce Foundation; Mellon Foundation and is the recipient of the PEN America/ Laura Pels International Foundation Theater Award for a Master Dramatist. He was the inaugural Playwright-in-Residence for six seasons on the Oregon Shakespeare Festival (2013-2019); Playwright’s Ensemble at Chicago’s Victory Gardens Theatre (2013-2020); Inaugural Latinx Playwrights on the Los Angeles Theatre Center (2021); and Ojai Playwrights Conference member since 2002. His performs embrace “Electricidad,” “Oedipus El Rey,” “Mojada,” which have been seen at regional theatres all through the United States and Europe. Luis spent twenty years within the Los Angeles Poetry and Performance Art communities. He is an Associate Professor on the University of Southern California (USC).