MY MOTHER'S KEEPER Plays the Electric Lodge, Now thru June 16

My Mother's Keeper, written by Jane Press and directed by Robin McKee, will perform at the Electric Lodge Fridays - Sundays, tonight, May 10 through Sunday, June 16, 2013 with a benefit performance on Thursday May 9. Part of the proceeds from the May 9 performance will benefit 50/50 Leadership with the money being earmarked for a documentary on the book "Beauty Bites Beast" by Ellen Snortland. Tickets are $28.00 and can be purchased at (310) 306-1854.

My Mother's Keeper moves fluidly back and forth between 1914 and the present, taking place within the memories of four generations of women in a show business family. Looking through the lens of the mother-daughter dynamic, My Mother's Keeperis an examination of our matriarchal inheritance, with all its inherent - and inherited - blessings and curses. It is a moving, sometimes very funny, sometimes disturbing, ultimately healing work.

Jane Press is an actress with fifty years experience on stage, which she uses to instruct her students in "The Art of Playing the Part of Being a Human Being" at the Community Partnership for Youth. She was an est Graduate Seminar Leader and Training Supervisor with the est Young Persons Training. Jane comes from a show business family in New York and L.A. and currently teaches acting to children ages 5-12 at CPY.

Robin McKee (director) is well respected for her work with new play development in California and Colorado, through programs such as L.A.'s Mark Taper Forum New Works Festival and Colorado Shakespeare Festival's New Works Project. She was the Founder and Producing Artistic Director for Carmel Performing Arts Festival, developed Telluride Repertory Theatre Company's seasonal productions for 15 years as guest artist and Artistic Director, and has worked as a freelance director around the country for as many years. Robin loves combining new and seasoned performers and artists in the development of new plays. One of her favorite venues in California is the Carl Cherry Center for the Performing Arts, where she first collaborated with the venue for the development of Karen Black's one-woman show in 1992.

50/50 Leadership's mission is to empower women as leaders and to transform the culture within which we live to one that naturally includes women on an equal basis in the selection of leaders. They are women and men from all walks of life who agree that leadership should reflect the gender of the population: women make up half, or more, of our population and should be included in equal numbers in boardrooms, in elected office, in academia, in the professions and in all public and private enterprises and endeavors. www.5050leadership.org/AboutUs.htm

The Electric Lodge is located at 1416 Electric Avenue, Venice, Calif. The play will run Fridays and Saturdays at 8:00 pm and Sundays at 3:00 pm and Sunday, May 12 at 3:00 and 8:00 pm, May 10 through June 16, 2013, with a benefit performance on Thursday, May 9. Tickets: $28.00. Group rates available. Call (310) 306-1854 or visit www.electriclodge.org.

The Electric Lodge is a laboratory for artists and environmentalists. We engage our community through the visual and performing arts, innovative classes, programs and seminars, providing experiential contexts and opportunities for dialogue. The Electric Lodge is a torchbearer in the effort to stimulate public understanding and support for the creation of a sustainable worldwide eco-system. The Lodge was built by the Masons in 1940 and used for several decades. After the masons abandoned the building, it was purchased in 1996 and given an extensive renovation with environmental sustainability in mind, being carefully equipped to handle a wide array of community and private uses such as professional drama, yoga, dance, music, photography, classes, staged readings, art exhibitions, independent video shoots, screenings, environmental education and more. We are conveniently equipped with two lobby areas; 1100 sq. ft dance studio, dressing rooms and a small commercial kitchen as well as ample on-site parking.

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