Odyssey Theatre Presents COLLECTED STORIES, 9/8-10/14

Three-time Academy Award nominee Diane Ladd (Drama Desk Award nomination) brings Donald Margulies' critically acclaimed Collected Stories (Pulitzer Prize finalist, Ovation Award winner) to the Odyssey Theatre for a limited run. Collected Stories had an extended sold-out run at Manhattan Theatre Club in New York.

A story of friendship, ambition, and betrayal between two writers…as "there is only room for one at the top." A stimulating jaunt through an unexpected evolution of lessons, from writing, ethics, and trust, to drawing boundaries.

Penned by the Pulizer Prize winner (Dinner With Friend), Margulies reveals these "themes cross cultures…mentors and protégés exist everywhere. Most people have felt betrayed or committed betrayal, deliberately or unknowingly. It is primarily a play about how human beings try to engage one another, pass along traditions, fulfill the powerful need for family. I have always been interested in the ways that we create families out of our friends or acquaintances."

Donald Margulies (Playwright) received the Pulitzer Prize for his play Dinner With Friends, which additionally was nominated for an Emmy Award as an HBO film. Originally commission by South Cost Rep, Collected Stories was a finalist for the Pulizer Prize. Mr. Margulies' play Time Stands Still enjoyed a critically acclaimed run on Broadway in 2009, starring Laura Linney and Eric Bogosian. Selected notable works include the Pulitzer Prize nominated Sight Unseen (OBIE Award for Best American Play, Daramatist Guild/Hull-Warriner Award), Shipwrecked! An Entertainment-The Amazing Adventures of Louis de Rougemont (As Told By Himself) which had a run at the Geffen (2007), Brooklyn Boy (South Coast Rep), What's Wrong With This Picture (Manhattan Theatre Club and Jewish Repertory Theatre), God Of Vengeance (ACT, Williamstown Theatre Festival), Two Days (Long Wharf Theatre), and Found A Peanut (Joseph Papp/NYSF). Donald Margulies was the recipient of the 2000 Sidney Kingsley Award for Outstanding Achievement in the Theatre by a playwright. In 2005 he was honored by the American Academy of Arts and Letters with an Award in Literature, and by the National Foundation for Jewish Culture with its Award in Literary Arts. Mr. Margulies has developed numerous scripts for film and television. Most recently, he adapted the novel Middlesex by Jeffery Eugenides, into an HBO miniseries.

COLLECTED STORIES opens Saturday, September 8th and runs Thursdays-Saturdays at 8pm, Sundays at 3pm through October 14, 2012. The Odyssey Theatre is located at 2055 S. Sepulveda Blvd, Los Angeles, CA 90025. Tickets are $20-$30. For reservations and more information: 310-477-2055 or http://www.odysseytheatre.com/collectedstories/

Terri Hanauer (Director) recently staged the World Premiere production of Mutually Assured Destruction by Emmy winner Peter Lefcourt, which played to sold out crowds at the Odyssey. She helmed the short film A Day in the Life, screening at numerous film festivals. Terri was accepted into the prestigious and highly competitive AFI's Directing Workshop for Women, where she adapted and directed Recycling Flo. It was chosen by AFI to represent it at the Cannes Film Festival - International Short Film Corner. It was the 'official selection' in over 25 film festivals and has won two BEST SHORT FILM/JURY PRIZES at the Fort Lauderdale International Film Festival and The Farmington Comedy Film Festival. Additional credits include 13 half hour episodes of Zane's Chronicles for HBO/Afterdark television. Selected directing credits for Los Angeles theatre include the Ovation Recommended La Ronde de Lunch, at Katselas Theatre Company, which received 6 Awards from Stage Scene LA, including BEST DIRECTION. She directed the critically acclaimed solo show by Mitch Hara called Mutant Olive, at the Beverly Hills Playhouse. Terri has just completed her first feature film, Sweet Talk.

Diane Ladd (Executive Producer) is a three-time Academy Award nominee, and Drama Desk Award nominee. She has had a distinguished career on Broadway and in film and television for several decades. Ms. Ladd has been lauded for her work in such films as Chinatown, Rambling Rose (duel Academy Award nomination with daughter Laura Dern), A Kiss Before Dying, Wild At Heart (Academy Award Nomination) Primary Colors, and Alice Doesn't Live Here Anymore (Academy Award Nomination), which inspired the series Alice, starring Linda Lavin. She is the second cousin to playwright Tennessee Williams.

THALIA BUITRON (Producer) brings a passion to her projects the size of her native state of Texas. She graduated with a degree in Cinema Television Arts from Cal State Northridge and has since worked as a Producer/Director/Screenwriter and Script Consultant. Producer credits include Lost Angels a short film, Action Figures a web series, starring Grant Show, and an evening of ten one-act plays for Fierce Backbone featuring award winning directors and playwrights. She has worked as the video producer for Stillness Speaks where she produced interviews and feature length documentaries with a number of quantum scientists. Thalia has directed numerous short films. Her most recent work, The Day, was tapped for Lionsgate's Expose Your Shorts. She also volunteers her directing skills to the Make A Film Foundation. Currently, Thalia is developing the Girls Empowerment Media Workshop in Ojai, California and is scheduled to producer her first narrative feature in 2012-2013.

NATALIE SUTHERLAND (as Lisa Morrison) has starred in over 100 stage productions including the award winning Trainspotting, (LA Drama Critics Awards), The Matrix Theatre's Red Star, and The Body opposite Emmy Award Winner Susan Clarke. Most recently, she appeared in Fernando Richardson's Treacherous Brain at The Open Fist Theatre, nominated for 5 LA Drama Critics Awards. Natalie can be seen worldwide as the lead good girl gone bad in the blockbuster hit Birthrite, the web series Contingency, and most recently in The Day and fxxen Americans, both films currently premiering in festival circuits.

APRIL LANG (as Ruth Steiner) has worked with industry luminaries such as Alan Menkin (The Little Mermaid, Little Shop of Horrors, and Beauty and the Beast), and Tony Award nominated Michael Cory (Grey Gardens). April has performed in concert and on recordings as both lead and background singer working with artists like David Bowie, Peter Allen, Ronnie Spector, Gloria Gayner, James Ingram and Isaac Hayes. April is a founding member of the infamous Intense Family Theatre in NYC as well as the Theatre Tribe in Los Angeles.

OUR PRODUCTION TEAM includes Carey Dunn (Lighting and Sound Design), Jennifer Palumbo, and Carlos Moreno Jr.

 

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