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First of all, we have some of the best actors in Los Angeles in our Company, multiple-award-winning actors with years of experience on America's stages. We have actors who work regularly on Broadway --Tony Award winning actors; and others who have worked, and continue to work, all over the country in America's most prestigious theatres. Many of our actors are currently on leave from the Company to pursue their art on other stages and on screens large and small (we do have many actors with excellent film and TV credits). But they all started out in the theatre, and eventually they all come home. To us. | |||
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We have many bilingual actors, too; we have Hispanic, Asian-Pacific, and African-American actors, who we can and do use in every conceivable variation of traditional and non-traditional casting. We have actors and actresses ranging from their mid-twenties to their late seventies. We have actors who have trained in the classics (and taught them) all over the world, and who are eager to pass that training on to other actors. But we are not just actors. We have a number of non-acting theatre professionals in our ranks--composers, designers, playwrights. And many of our actors are multi-talented. We have over a dozen actors who are also professional directors. We have a half-dozen actors who have themselves been artistic directors of professional theatres. We have a number of actor-dramaturges and actor-singers and actor-designers. Some of our actors are accomplished, published play translators from over a half-dozen languages. We have actor-playwrights whose work has been commissioned and produced all over the country, including a recent Kennedy Center New Plays winner. Currently, every one of our actor-writers is having a script produced somewhere in the world in 1997. |
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We have a dozen acting teachers and actor-trainers in most theatre disciplines, including experts in voice and speech, Shakespeare, commedia dell'arte, stage combat, dramaturgy, and classical style. We have teachers with enough experience in major universities, conservatories, and theatre (and enough higher degrees) to staff two or three first-rate drama departments. | |||
| But most of all we have actors who are willing to work for long periods of time, to commit to the classics, to share roles, and play even the smallest roles in repertory situations--actors, in short, who are willing to place all their theatrical skills at the service of a higher goal: the goal of creating and maintaining a world-class ensemble. | ||||
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