The Fountain Theatre
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The Fountain Theatre is one of the premier intimate theatres in Los Angeles. Along with its programming of live theatre, it's also the foremost producer of Flamenco
Flamenco
Flamenco is a genre of music and dance which has its foundation in Andalusian music and dance and in whose evolution Andalusian Gypsies played an important part....

 on the West Coast.

History

The Fountain Theatre was founded in Los Angeles
Los Ángeles
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 in 1990 by Co-Artistic Directors Deborah Lawlor (wife of Robert Lawlor
Robert Lawlor
Robert Lawlor is a mythographer, symbologist and New Age author of several books.After training as a painter and a sculptor, he became a yoga student of Sri Aurobindo and lived for many years in Pondicherry, India, where he was a founding member of Auroville. In India, he discovered the works of...

) and Stephen Sachs
Stephen Sachs
Stephen Sachs is an award-winning stage director and playwright. He is currently the Co-Artistic Director of The Fountain Theatre in Los Angeles, which he co-founded in 1990.- Biography :...

 dedicated to providing a nurturing, creative home for multi-ethnic theatre and dance artists. The theatre's mission is to develop provocative new works or explore a unique vision of established plays that reflect the immediate concerns and cultural diversity of contemporary Los Angeles and the nation... and to offer a safe, supportive haven for artists of varied backgrounds to gather, interact and inspire each other toward the creation of work that will ignite and illuminate the community from which it's drawn and give creative voice to those who may not otherwise be heard.

Simon Levy
Simon Levy
Simon Levy is an award-winning theatre director and playwright, who has been the Producing Director/Dramaturg with The Fountain Theatre in Los Angeles since 1993.- Biography :Levy was born in Surrey, England and grew up in San Francisco...

 , Producing Director/Dramaturg, joined the Fountain in 1993 as a resident director, producer, and playwright.

Housed in a charming two-story complex at 5060 Fountain Avenue in Hollywood, California
California
California is a state located on the West Coast of the United States. It is by far the most populous U.S. state, and the third-largest by land area...

, the Fountain has grown into one of the most successful intimate theaters in Los Angeles.

The Fountain Theatre's activities include a year-round season of fully produced new and established plays (32 world premieres and 29 U.S., West Coast, Southern California or Los Angeles premieres in 20 years, each reflecting a unique cultural voice and serving a distinctive ethnic community), a full season of multi-ethnic dance, the foremost presenters of Flamenco in Los Angeles, a New Plays developmental series, Educational Outreach Programs, and national/international tours. To date, Fountain Theatre productions have won more than 220 awards for all areas of production, performance, and design. And Fountain Theatre projects have been seen in Los Angeles, New York
New York
New York is a state in the Northeastern region of the United States. It is the nation's third most populous state. New York is bordered by New Jersey and Pennsylvania to the south, and by Connecticut, Massachusetts and Vermont to the east...

, San Francisco, Santa Barbara
Santa Barbara, California
Santa Barbara is the county seat of Santa Barbara County, California, United States. Situated on an east-west trending section of coastline, the longest such section on the West Coast of the United States, the city lies between the steeply-rising Santa Ynez Mountains and the Pacific Ocean...

, Seattle, Chicago
Chicago
Chicago is the largest city in the US state of Illinois. With nearly 2.7 million residents, it is the most populous city in the Midwestern United States and the third most populous in the US, after New York City and Los Angeles...

, Massachusetts
Massachusetts
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, Florida
Florida
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, New Jersey
New Jersey
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, Minneapolis, London
London
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 and Edinburgh
Edinburgh
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, among other cities and countries.

The Fountain Theatre has received more nominations and won more awards than any other intimate theater in the history of the Ovation Awards
Ovation Awards
The Ovation Awards are a Southern California award for excellence in theatre, established in 1989. They are given out by the Los Angeles Stage Alliance and are the only peer-judged theatre awards in Los Angeles. They have been called the "...highest-profile contest for local theatre..." by the Los...

.

The Fountain has been honored with a Certificate of Appreciation from the Los Angeles City Council for demonstrating years of artistic excellence and "enhancing the cultural life of Los Angeles."

It is the recipient of the 2004 Hollywood Arts Council's "Charlie" Award for Live Theatre and Significant Artistic Contribution to Hollywood.

In 2009, the LA Weekly named the Fountain Theatre as "one of the Best Theatre Companies of the Decade".

PRODUCTIONS

  • Bakersfield Mist (2011) by Stephen Sachs
    Stephen Sachs
    Stephen Sachs is an award-winning stage director and playwright. He is currently the Co-Artistic Director of The Fountain Theatre in Los Angeles, which he co-founded in 1990.- Biography :...

     - an NNPN Rolling World Premiere
  • A House Not Meant to Stand
    A House Not Meant to Stand
    A House Not Meant to Stand is the last play written by Tennessee Williams. It was produced during the 1981–82 season at the Goodman Theatre in Chicago by Gregory Mosher and published for the first time in 2008 by New Directions...

    (2011) by Tennessee Williams
    Tennessee Williams
    Thomas Lanier "Tennessee" Williams III was an American writer who worked principally as a playwright in the American theater. He also wrote short stories, novels, poetry, essays, screenplays and a volume of memoirs...

  • The Train Driver
    The Train Driver
    The Train Driver is a play by Athol Fugard. It was first produced at the Fugard Theatre in Cape Town, South Africa where it was directed by Fugard himself and ran from 19 March - 11 April 2010. The United States Premiere was presented at the Fountain Theatre, Los Angeles from October 16, 2010, to...

    (2010/2011) by Athol Fugard
    Athol Fugard
    Athol Fugard is a South African playwright, novelist, actor, and director who writes in English, best known for his political plays opposing the South African system of apartheid and for the 2005 Academy-Award winning film of his novel Tsotsi, directed by Gavin Hood...

  • Opus (2010) by Michael Hollinger
    Michael Hollinger
    Michael Hollinger is an American playwright who is currently an assistant professor of Theatre at Villanova University and a resident playwright at . He received a Bachelor of Music in viola performance from Oberlin Conservatory in 1984 and a Master of Arts in theatre from Villanova in 1989...

  • The Ballad of Emmett Till (2010) by Ifa Bayeza
  • Shining City
    Shining City
    Shining City is a play by Conor McPherson, set in Dublin which was first performed in London's West End at the Royal Court Theatre in June 2004....

    (2009) by Conor McPherson
    Conor McPherson
    Conor McPherson is an Irish playwright and director.-Life and career:McPherson was born in Dublin, . He was educated at University College Dublin, McPherson began writing his first plays there as a member of UCD Dramsoc, the college's dramatic society, and went on to found Fly By Night Theatre...

  • Coming Home (2009) by Athol Fugard
    Athol Fugard
    Athol Fugard is a South African playwright, novelist, actor, and director who writes in English, best known for his political plays opposing the South African system of apartheid and for the 2005 Academy-Award winning film of his novel Tsotsi, directed by Gavin Hood...

  • The Accomplices
    The Accomplices
    The Accomplices is a 2007 play by New York Times reporter Bernard Weintraub. It premiered at The New Group in New York City in 2007 and played thereafter in regional theatres.The play is based on Hillel Kook's wartime experiences in the United States...

    (2009) by Bernard Weinraub remounted at the Odyssey Theatre
  • Photograph 51 (2009) by Anna Ziegler
  • Gem of the Ocean
    Gem of the Ocean
    Gem of the Ocean is a play by American playwright August Wilson. It is the first installment of his decade-by-decade, ten-play chronicle, The Pittsburgh Cycle, dramatizing the African-American experience in the twentieth century.-Plot :...

    (2009) by August Wilson
    August Wilson
    August Wilson was an American playwright whose work included a series of ten plays, The Pittsburgh Cycle, for which he received two Pulitzer Prizes for Drama...

  • The Accomplices
    The Accomplices
    The Accomplices is a 2007 play by New York Times reporter Bernard Weintraub. It premiered at The New Group in New York City in 2007 and played thereafter in regional theatres.The play is based on Hillel Kook's wartime experiences in the United States...

    (2008) by Bernard Weinraub
  • And Her Hair Went With Her (2008) by Zina Camblin - an NNPN Rolling World Premiere
  • Victory
    Victory
    Victory is successful conclusion of a fight or competition..Victory may refer to:**strategic victory**tactical victory** Pyrrhic victory, a victory at heavy cost to the victorious party**Victory columns**Victory Monuments**Victory personified...

    (2008) by Athol Fugard
    Athol Fugard
    Athol Fugard is a South African playwright, novelist, actor, and director who writes in English, best known for his political plays opposing the South African system of apartheid and for the 2005 Academy-Award winning film of his novel Tsotsi, directed by Gavin Hood...

  • The Milk Train Doesn't Stop Here Anymore
    The Milk Train Doesn't Stop Here Anymore
    The Milk Train Doesn't Stop Here Anymore is a play written by Tennessee Williams.It debuted at the Festival dei Due Mondi in Spoleto, Italy, in July 1962. Its first American production was in January 1963, but it only ran for 69 performances at the Morosco Theatre in New York. Reviews of the play...

     (2007) by Tennessee Williams
    Tennessee Williams
    Thomas Lanier "Tennessee" Williams III was an American writer who worked principally as a playwright in the American theater. He also wrote short stories, novels, poetry, essays, screenplays and a volume of memoirs...

  • Taking Flight
    Taking Flight
    Taking Flight is the fourth studio album by Filipino singer Sarah Geronimo, released on July 25, 2007 under VIVA Records. The album showcases songs by Filipino composers Louie Ocampo, Trina Belamide, Chuckie Dreyfus, Rebel Magdagasang and Medwin Marfil...

     (2007) by Adriana Sevan
  • Sojourn at Ararat (2007) by Gerald Papasian and Nora Armani
  • On the Couch with Nora Armani (2007) by Nora Armani
    Nora Armani
    Nora Armani was born in Giza, Egypt of Armenian parents, educated and trained in England and as an actor has appeared on stage and screen worldwide performing in different languages. She has also directed a number of plays, a feature film and short film. She holds an M.Sc. degree from the...

  • Miss Julie
    Miss Julie
    Miss Julie is a naturalistic play written in 1888 by August Strindberg dealing with class, love, lust, the battle of the sexes, and the interaction among them...

     (2007) adapted by Stephen Sachs
    Stephen Sachs
    Stephen Sachs is an award-winning stage director and playwright. He is currently the Co-Artistic Director of The Fountain Theatre in Los Angeles, which he co-founded in 1990.- Biography :...

  • Master Class
    Master Class
    Master Class is a play by Terrence McNally, with incidental music by Giuseppe Verdi, Giacomo Puccini, and Vincenzo Bellini.The play originally was staged by the Philadelphia Theatre Company and the Mark Taper Forum. After twelve previews, the Broadway production, directed by Leonard Foglia, opened...

    (2007) by Terrence McNally
    Terrence McNally
    Terrence McNally is an American playwright who has received four Tony Awards, an Emmy, two Guggenheim Fellowships, a Rockefeller Grant, the Lucille Lortel Award, the Hull-Warriner Award, and a citation from the American Academy of Arts and Letters. He has been a member of the Council of the...

     at Santa Barbara Theatre
  • Taxi to Jannah (2006) by Mark Sickman
  • The Gimmick (2006) by Dael Orlandersmith
    Dael Orlandersmith
    Dael Orlandersmith is an actress, poet and playwright who is best known for her Obie Award winning Beauty's Daughter and the 2002 Pulitzer Prize Finalist in Drama, Yellowman....

  • Little Armenia
    Little Armenia
    Little Armenia can refer to:* Little Armenia, Los Angeles, California* The Armenian Kingdom of Cilicia, also known as Lesser Armenia...

    (2006) by Lory Bedikian, Aram Kouyoumdjian, and Shahe Mankerian
  • Joe Turner's Come and Gone
    Joe Turner's Come and Gone
    Joe Turner's Come and Gone is a play by American playwright, August Wilson, the second installment of his decade-by-decade chronicle of the African-American experience, The Pittsburgh Cycle...

    (2006) by August Wilson
    August Wilson
    August Wilson was an American playwright whose work included a series of ten plays, The Pittsburgh Cycle, for which he received two Pulitzer Prizes for Drama...

  • What I Heard About Iraq (2005) adapted by Simon Levy
    Simon Levy
    Simon Levy is an award-winning theatre director and playwright, who has been the Producing Director/Dramaturg with The Fountain Theatre in Los Angeles since 1993.- Biography :Levy was born in Surrey, England and grew up in San Francisco...

  • Acts of Desire (2005) by Yussef El Guindi
  • Yellowman
    Yellowman
    Yellowman is a Jamaican reggae and dancehall deejay, widely known as King Yellowman...

    (2005) by Dael Orlandersmith
    Dael Orlandersmith
    Dael Orlandersmith is an actress, poet and playwright who is best known for her Obie Award winning Beauty's Daughter and the 2002 Pulitzer Prize Finalist in Drama, Yellowman....

  • Exits and Entrances (2005) by Athol Fugard
    Athol Fugard
    Athol Fugard is a South African playwright, novelist, actor, and director who writes in English, best known for his political plays opposing the South African system of apartheid and for the 2005 Academy-Award winning film of his novel Tsotsi, directed by Gavin Hood...

  • Daisy in the Dreamtime (2004) by Lynne Kaufman at Inside the Ford Amphitheatre
  • Master Class
    Master Class
    Master Class is a play by Terrence McNally, with incidental music by Giuseppe Verdi, Giacomo Puccini, and Vincenzo Bellini.The play originally was staged by the Philadelphia Theatre Company and the Mark Taper Forum. After twelve previews, the Broadway production, directed by Leonard Foglia, opened...

    (2003-2004) by Terrence McNally
    Terrence McNally
    Terrence McNally is an American playwright who has received four Tony Awards, an Emmy, two Guggenheim Fellowships, a Rockefeller Grant, the Lucille Lortel Award, the Hull-Warriner Award, and a citation from the American Academy of Arts and Letters. He has been a member of the Council of the...

  • Going to St. Ives (2003) by Lee Blessing
    Lee Blessing
    -Biography:Blessing's best-known play is A Walk in the Woods, which depicts the developing relationship between two arms limitation negotiators, one Russian and one American, over years of negotiation...

  • After the Fall
    After the Fall
    After the Fall may refer to:* After the Fall , an Australian musical group* After the Fall * After the Fall * After the Fall , a novel in the Dragonriders of Pern series...

    (2002) by Arthur Miller
    Arthur Miller
    Arthur Asher Miller was an American playwright and essayist. He was a prominent figure in American theatre, writing dramas that include plays such as All My Sons , Death of a Salesman , The Crucible , and A View from the Bridge .Miller was often in the public eye,...

  • Central Avenue
    Central Avenue
    Central Avenue is an often used road name. Major thoroughfares with this name include:Canada* Central Avenue India* Chittaranjan Avenue, in Kolkata, IndiaUnited States* Central Avenue Corridor in Phoenix, Arizona...

    (2001) by Stephen Sachs
    Stephen Sachs
    Stephen Sachs is an award-winning stage director and playwright. He is currently the Co-Artistic Director of The Fountain Theatre in Los Angeles, which he co-founded in 1990.- Biography :...

  • Night of the Iguana (2000-2001) by Tennessee Williams
    Tennessee Williams
    Thomas Lanier "Tennessee" Williams III was an American writer who worked principally as a playwright in the American theater. He also wrote short stories, novels, poetry, essays, screenplays and a volume of memoirs...



Visit http://www.fountaintheatre.com/pastshows.html for information prior to 2000.

Actors

  • Bernard K. Addison
  • Aria Alpert
  • Lorenz Arnell
  • Chip Bent
  • Daniel Billet
  • Daniel Blinkoff
  • Peggy Ann Blow
  • Chris Butler
    Chris Butler
    Christopher John Butler, known as Chris Butler , is a former British Conservative Party politician.Butler was Member of Parliament for Warrington South from 1987 to 1992, when he lost his seat by 191 votes to Labour Party candidate Mike Hall.He is now a Partner at Butler Kelly; a cross-Party...

  • Alan Blumenfeld
    Alan Blumenfeld
    Alan Blumenfeld is a veteran American character actor best known for his role in NBC's TV series Heroes as Maury Parkman, the telepath father of Matt Parkman played by Greg Grunberg...

  • Marc Casabani
  • Robert Craighead
  • Seamus Dever
    Seamus Dever
    Seamus Patrick Dever is an American actor.Dever was born in Flint, Michigan, and grew up in Bullhead City, Arizona. He graduated as valedictorian of his high school class, completed his undergraduate studies at Northern Arizona University, and holds MFAs in Acting from the Moscow Art Theatre and...

  • Jia Doughman
  • Loren Freeman
  • Chuma Gault
  • Anthony J. Haney
  • Deidrie Henry
  • Morlan Higgins
  • Kevin High
  • William Dennis Hurley
  • Adam Huss
    Adam Huss
    Adam Thomas Huss is an American television and film actor, producer, casting director, singer and writer.-Movies:-Television:-External links:...

  • Lovensky Jean-Baptiste
  • Juanita Jennings
  • Tinashe Kajese
  • Karen Kondazian
  • Christian Lebano
  • Sandy Martin
    Sandy Martin
    Sandy Martin is an actress who has over 60 film credits and has been an actress, producer, director and writer in professional theater productions....

  • Tracy Middendorf
    Tracy Middendorf
    Tracy Lynn Middendorf is an American television, movie, and stage actress.-Personal life:Middendorf was born in Miami Beach, Florida. She attended Pickens High School in Jasper, Georgia. In 1987, during her senior year, she left Jasper to take drama classes in Miami, and later attended SUNY Purchase...

  • Tene Carter Miller
  • Judith Moreland
  • Virginia Newcomb
  • Graham Norris
  • Jenny O'Hara
  • Adenrele Ojo
  • Dale Orlandersmith
  • Lisa Pelikan
    Lisa Pelikan
    Lisa Pelikan is an American stage, film and television actress.She was born in Berkley, California, the daughter of American parents Helen L., a psychologist, and Robert G. Pelikan, an international economist who served as the minister-counselor from the United States at the Organization for...

  • Tonya Pinkins
    Tonya Pinkins
    Tonya Pinkins is an American actress and author known for her portrayal of Livia Frye on the soap opera All My Children and for her roles on Broadway, for which she won a Tony Award.-Biography:...

  • Larry Poindexter
    Larry Poindexter
    Larry Poindexter is an American actor and singer born and raised in Dallas, Texas.-Life and career:Poindexter is currently best known for his role in 2003's S.W.A.T., where he played by the book LAPD Captain Tom Fuller who went head to head with Samuel Jackson's Hondo...

  • Priscilla Pointer
    Priscilla Pointer
    Priscilla Pointer is an American stage, film and television character actress. She began her career in the theater, including productions on Broadway. Later, Pointer moved to Hollywood to act in films and on television...

  • Lisa Richards
  • Jacqueline Schultz
    Jacqueline Schultz
    Jacqueline Schultz is a film and television actress-Career:In addition to her recurring roles on two television soap operas — as Dee Stewart on As the World Turns ; and as the last Patti Tate on Search for Tomorrow — Schultz has appeared in over twenty-five other television productions, including...

  • Esther Scott
    Esther Scott
    Esther Scott is an American actress. She has had regular spots in shows such as The Geena Davis Show, City Guys and The Tracy Morgan Show. She has guest starred in Ellen, Less Than Perfect and 7th Heaven. She lives in Los Angeles....

  • Thomas Silcott
  • Suanne Spoke
  • Caroline Treadwell
  • Malachi Throne
    Malachi Throne
    Malachi Throne is an American actor, most noted for his roles on Star Trek and It Takes a Thief.Throne was born in New York City...

  • Nick Ullett
    Nick Ullett
    Nicholas Metson "Nick" Ullett is a British-born American actor.-Filmography:*Call of Duty: Finest Hour *Yes, Dear...

  • Adolphus Ward
  • Karen Malina White
    Karen Malina White
    Karen Malina White is an American film and television actress. She is perhaps best known for her portrayal of Charmaine Brown on the NBC sitcom The Cosby Show, and its spin-off series A Different World...


Playwrights

  • Athol Fugard
    Athol Fugard
    Athol Fugard is a South African playwright, novelist, actor, and director who writes in English, best known for his political plays opposing the South African system of apartheid and for the 2005 Academy-Award winning film of his novel Tsotsi, directed by Gavin Hood...

  • Conor McPherson
    Conor McPherson
    Conor McPherson is an Irish playwright and director.-Life and career:McPherson was born in Dublin, . He was educated at University College Dublin, McPherson began writing his first plays there as a member of UCD Dramsoc, the college's dramatic society, and went on to found Fly By Night Theatre...

  • August Wilson
    August Wilson
    August Wilson was an American playwright whose work included a series of ten plays, The Pittsburgh Cycle, for which he received two Pulitzer Prizes for Drama...

  • Tennessee Williams
    Tennessee Williams
    Thomas Lanier "Tennessee" Williams III was an American writer who worked principally as a playwright in the American theater. He also wrote short stories, novels, poetry, essays, screenplays and a volume of memoirs...

  • Arthur Miller
    Arthur Miller
    Arthur Asher Miller was an American playwright and essayist. He was a prominent figure in American theatre, writing dramas that include plays such as All My Sons , Death of a Salesman , The Crucible , and A View from the Bridge .Miller was often in the public eye,...

  • Dael Orlandersmith
    Dael Orlandersmith
    Dael Orlandersmith is an actress, poet and playwright who is best known for her Obie Award winning Beauty's Daughter and the 2002 Pulitzer Prize Finalist in Drama, Yellowman....

  • Lee Blessing
    Lee Blessing
    -Biography:Blessing's best-known play is A Walk in the Woods, which depicts the developing relationship between two arms limitation negotiators, one Russian and one American, over years of negotiation...

  • Michael Hollinger
    Michael Hollinger
    Michael Hollinger is an American playwright who is currently an assistant professor of Theatre at Villanova University and a resident playwright at . He received a Bachelor of Music in viola performance from Oberlin Conservatory in 1984 and a Master of Arts in theatre from Villanova in 1989...

  • Anna Ziegler
  • Stephen Sachs
    Stephen Sachs
    Stephen Sachs is an award-winning stage director and playwright. He is currently the Co-Artistic Director of The Fountain Theatre in Los Angeles, which he co-founded in 1990.- Biography :...

  • Simon Levy
    Simon Levy
    Simon Levy is an award-winning theatre director and playwright, who has been the Producing Director/Dramaturg with The Fountain Theatre in Los Angeles since 1993.- Biography :Levy was born in Surrey, England and grew up in San Francisco...

  • Zina Camblin
  • Ifa Bayeza
  • Terrence McNally
    Terrence McNally
    Terrence McNally is an American playwright who has received four Tony Awards, an Emmy, two Guggenheim Fellowships, a Rockefeller Grant, the Lucille Lortel Award, the Hull-Warriner Award, and a citation from the American Academy of Arts and Letters. He has been a member of the Council of the...

  • Lynne Kaufman

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