KTC Presents MAD WOMEN may 15, May 22, May 29

KTC presents the World Premiere of MAD WOMEN, conceived, written and performed by John Fleck, directed by Ric Montejano. The production runs Fridays & Saturdays at 8 p.m. with three Sunday performances May 15, 22 and 29th at 7 p.m. -Skylight Theatre - Skylab (1816 N. Vermont, LA 90027.) Tickets are $20 and may be purchased at 702 KTC- TKTS (702-582-8587) or at www.Katselastheatre.com.

BUCKLE UP for a hair raising roller coaster ride through hell and back with 2 hysterical mad women, Ms. Judy Garland and Josephine Fleck accompanied by their sons Joey and Johnny who survive the ride. Gulp.

John Fleck's work received national attention in 1990, when, along with three other performance artists, he became part of what was known as the "NEA 4." Labeled by some political pundits as "too dirty to be funded", the NEA 4 spearheaded a national campaign against artistic repression and won their Supreme court case against the National Endowment for the Arts. In 1998, the Supreme Court, with the backing of the Clinton Administration, overturned part of the case and determined that ‘standards of decency' was constitutional. Soon after, the NEA eliminated all funding for ‘new genre' categories.

Fleck has won numerous grants and awards, among them 2 NEA's, a Getty Fellowship, a Franklin Furnace & Jerome Foundation Fellowship, a Rockefeller/NEA- Interarts grant and LA Cultural Affairs funding. He has won 3 LA Critics Circle Awards, 8 DramaLogue, 6 LA Weekly and 2 BackStage West awards, all for outstanding performance.
His past body of solo work includes: Johnny's Got a Gun, Nothin' Beats Pussy,Mud in your Eye, Dirt, me, A Snowball's Chance in Hell, Blessed are all the Little Fishes, PsychoOpera and I Got the He-be-she-be's. A sampling of past performance venues includes; the ICA (London), ICA (Boston) Warhol Museum (Pittsburg), The Public Theater, The Guggenheim Museum, PS-122, LaMama Theater, Dixon Place & Joe's Pub (NYC), The Getty Museum, Cal Plaza, MOCA (LA).
Fleck also works frequently in theater. A sampling of past work includes: PEACE (@ the Getty Villa w/ Culture Clash), Tobacco Road (La Jolla Playhouse) She Stoops to Comedy (Evidence Room) A Perfect Wedding (Kirk Douglas Theater, LA), Applause (Reprise, UCLA), Noises Off (Cape Playhouse, Dennis, Mass), On the Jump (South Coast Rep), Small Craft Warnings, Cringe, The Berlin Circle (Evidence Room/LA), The Mystery of Irma Vep (Tiffany Theater/LA) & Tony Kushner's adaptation of The Illusion (LATC) and The Granny (The Old Globe, San Diego).

KATSELAS THEATRE COMPANY is a home for artists to develop, take risks and create theatrical works of excellence with the intent to entertain, provoke and illuminate audiences reiterating the value of the arts to this city we call home. Through our programs and our main stage productions our aim is to bring together the artist and the audience in order to participate in the artist's development process. KTC's focus is the development of the artist. Believing that artists and their communities are influenced by each other and that the audience should be an acknowledged within the artist's development process. KTC's newest programs, INK-ubator and New Voices have been created to engage the artist and the audience in that process.

MAD WOMEN, conceived, written and performed by John Fleck, directed by Ric Montejano. The production runs Fridays & Saturdays at 8 p.m. with three Sunday performances May 15, 22 and 29th at 7 p.m. at Skylight Theatre - Skylab (1816 N. Vermont, LA 90027.) Tickets are $20 and may be purchased at 702 KTC- TKTS (702-582-8587) or at www.Katselastheatre.com.

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