Photos: TRAUMA PLAY at IAMA Theatre Company First Look
Trauma Play will be performed through June 2, 2025 at Atwater Village Theatre.
IAMA Theatre Company is closing its 17th season with a workshop production of the hilarious and raw new comedy Trauma Play by Abigail Miller. Get a first look here!
This new work will be directed by Co-Artistic Director of Ammunition Theatre Company Diana Wyenn, director, co-divisor, and dramaturg of the critically acclaimed solo show Kristina Wong for Public Office. In Trauma Play, Britt Benson is flying high as her buzzy, autobiographical new play gets national news coverage before it even premieres. But once the cameras start rolling, the play is no longer centerstage, and she finds the sexual assault she experienced suddenly publicized and scrutinized. Determined to make it to opening night, Britt tackles the meta-upon-meta whirlwind head-on with a cast of characters who each believe their own version of the truth. The cast for Trauma Play features Tessa Hope Slovis, Alaska Jackson*, Sharon Lawrence*, Jorge-Luis Pallo, Daniel Robaire, Sonal Shah* and Keliher Walsh*. Trauma Play will be performed through June 2, 2025 at Atwater Village Theatre.
Following a successful staged reading at IAMA’s 2023 New Works Festival, Trauma Play will be presented as a full workshop production, giving audiences the opportunity to be an integral part of the playmaking process, providing valuable and essential feedback with their reactions each night for the creative team to bring back into rehearsal the next day with the actors. With its 17th season, IAMA continues its commitment to developing works in process. Featuring a world premiere and two workshop productions, the season highlights the theatrical development process in an intentional move to incorporate audiences as a theatre-making tool. Trauma Play follows the wildly successful workshop production of Douglas Lyons’ Don’t Touch My Hair, which enjoyed a sold-out run at the Atwater Village Theatre this February.
Photo credit: Makela Yepez
Tessa Hope Slovis, Sonal Shah
Sharon Lawrence, Tessa Hope Slovis
Tessa Hope Slovis, Sonal Shah
Tessa Hope Slovis, Daniel Robaire
Tessa Hope Slovis, Jorge-Luis Pallo
Sonal Shah, Alaska Jackson, Tessa Hope Slovis
Daniel Robaire, Alaska Jackson, Sonal Shah
Tessa Hope Slovis, Sharon Lawrence
Tessa Hope Slovis, Sonal Shah
Tessa Hope Slovis, Sharon Lawrence
The cast
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The Most Happy Fella North Coast Repertory Theatre (6/03-6/28) |
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A Haunting Revue II Impro Theatre (6/06-6/26) |
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Born This Cabaret Renberg Theatre (6/24-6/24) |
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Bus People – A Hilarious & Optimistic Take on L.A. Public Transit The Actors Company (6/06-6/28) |
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MISS MAGNOLIA BEAUMONT GOES TO PROVINCETOWN Los Angeles LGBT Center’s Davidson/Valentini Theatre (6/17-6/28) |
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Mike Blaha: Pivotal Nomad Broadwater Studio (6/07-6/24) |
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My Life is a Sonnet Broadwater Studio (6/07-6/27) |
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Storytellers Theater: PINOCCHIO @ Sac Fine Arts Sacramento Fine Arts Center (6/26-6/26) |
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The Show Has Been Cancelled (Due to the End of The World) Broadwater Second Stage (6/16-6/27) |
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Where We Played: Voices From the Fire TCL Chinese Theatre (6/23-6/23) |