Gila Sand

Gila Sand, creator of the Drama-Desk nominated 'Twist', and composer Joshua Stephen Kartes permiere their new revue 'Does This Show Make Me Look Fat?' in a one-night-only performance at The Duplex on Wednesday, April 21 at 9:30pm. Garrit Guadan provides additional music and will serve as musical director.

Drama Desk nominated writer of Twist, Gila Sand is at it again. Ms. Sand has written an original music review with composer Joshua Stephen Kartes and Garrit Guadan. The concert will take place at The Duplex on April 21st.

Gila Sand, creator of the Drama-Desk nominated 'Twist', and composer Joshua Stephen Kartes permiere their new revue 'Does This Show Make Me Look Fat?' in a one-night-only performance at The Duplex on Wednesday, April 21 at 9:30pm. Garrit Guadan provides additional music and will serve as musical director.

Drama Desk nominated writer of Twist, Gila Sand is at it again. Ms. Sand has written an original music review with composer Joshua Stephen Kartes and Garrit Guadan. The concert will take place at The Duplex on April 21st.

The Columbine Project returns to Los Angeles by popular demand on February 7, 2010 with a brand-new cast.

The Columbine Project returns to Los Angeles by popular demand on February 7, 2010 with a brand-new cast.

THE COLUMBINE PROJECT, a new play written and directed by Paul Anthony Storiale, will begin performances July 27th at The Actors Temple Theatre, 339 West 47th Street (between Eighth & Ninth Avenues). Opening Night will be Sunday August 9th (at 7 PM).

Diversionary Theatre will produce the new musical Twist as the first show of its 2009-2010 season, running July 9-August 9. Set against the backdrop of Victorian England, Twist re-imagines Oliver Twist as a lonely, attractive young man searching for love, and discovering an outrageous London underworld.

On April 20th 1999, the world watched as two young men presumed to be outcasts walked into their high-school, and attempted to massacre hundreds of their peers. Although failing in their original mission to kill 250 students, the two teens left twelve students and a teacher fatally wounded, and many others scarred for life. 'The Columbine Project' examines exactly what went through the minds of several students including the killers, who at one time, were just normal kids. We follow as the plan is kept secret and as the soon-to-be victims prepare for a future they would never see.

Twist book & lyrics by Gila Sand; music by Paul Leschen directed by James Vasquez Diversionary Theatre San Diego through August 9

On April 20th 1999, the world watched as two young men presumed to be outcasts walked into their high-school, and attempted to massacre hundreds of their peers. Although failing in their original mission to kill 250 students, the two teens left twelve students and a teacher fatally wounded, and many others scarred for life. 'The Columbine Project' examines exactly what went through the minds of several students including the killers, who at one time, were just normal kids. We follow as the plan is kept secret and as the soon-to-be victims prepare for a future they would never see.

Diversionary Theatre will produce the new musical Twist as the first show of its 2009-2010 season, running July 9-August 9. Set against the backdrop of Victorian England, Twist re-imagines Oliver Twist as a lonely, attractive young man searching for love, and discovering an outrageous London underworld.

Diversionary Theatre will produce the new musical Twist as the first show of its 2009-2010 season, running July 9-August 9. Set against the backdrop of Victorian England, Twist re-imagines Oliver Twist as a lonely, attractive young man searching for love, and discovering an outrageous London underworld.

Diversionary Theatre's 2009-2010 season of two gender-bending musicals and four provocative plays includes two West Coast Premieres, dynamic local actors and directors, and a reading of a new queer opera. The six-show mainstage season includes: the new musical Twist by Gila Sand and Paul Leschen, based on Charles Dickens' Oliver Twist, directed by James Vasquez; Bent, the seminal play by Martin Sherman, in a co-production with ion theatre company; Paul Rudnick's big gay comedy The New Century, directed by Igor Goldin; same-sex marriage gets a comic nod with The Marriage Bed by Nona Shepphard, directed by Rosina Reynolds; laugh out loud with teenage angst in Speech and Debate by Steven Karam, directed by Jason Southerland; and filled with melancholy and lust, the musical play Moscow, by Nick Salamone and Maury R. McIntyre, rounds out the season.

Gila Sand's sexy retelling of the Dickens' classic is running at the Midtown International Theatre Festival.