THEATER

THE UNRAVELING

Written and Directed by Tom Lazarus

with Michael Mantell and Lizzie Peet

8 performances with four other plays

May 19th to June 10, 2018

Ensemble Studio Theater, Los Angeles

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BLACK FLOWER IN THE WHITE HOUSE

SELECTED AS SEMI-FINALIST

THE ACTOR’S STUDIO OF NEWBURYPORT SHORT PLAYFEST

MAY, 2018

2 NEW READINGS – ONE NIGHT ONLY – FRIDAY 1/19

HEAD CASES

Written and Directed by Tom Lazarus

with Steve Burleigh, Kate Fuglei, Jeffrey Han,

David Johann Kim, Maura Knowles, Stevie Stern

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James Macdonald and Karen Rizzo in

THE UNRAVELING

Written by Tom Lazarus Directed by Stevie Stern

OPENING NIGHT OF EST/LA’S WINTERFEST 2018

Friday, January 19^TH 8:00 P.M.

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ENSEMBLE STUDIO THEATER 3269 Casitas Ave, Los Angeles, CA 90039

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ONE DAY ONLY – SUNDAY, DECEMBER 3 SOLD OUT! SOLD OUT!!

Kate Fuglei Charles Parks Toni Sawyer Eve Sigall

THE BABY SHOWER

Written by Stevie Stern

Directed by Tom Lazarus

One of six plays part of EST/LA’S LAUNCHPAD

3269 Casitas Ave, Atwater Village.

AN EVENING OF SONGS & SEQUINS

SOLD OUT! SOLD OUT!

CHUCK MARSO & STEVIE STERN

PUTTIN’ ON THE RITZ – Producer/Director

ONE NIGHT ONLY!

Music Director–GARY NESTERUK Costumes– CHUCK MARSO

Produced and directed by TOM LAZARUS

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THE EDYE–AT THE BROAD stage- 8:00 Pm

1310 11th Street Santa Monica, CA 90401

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DAVID HOCKNEY’S COUCH – Director

Stevie Stern’s funny and touching short play DAVID HOCKNEY’S COUCH, which is part of the One Acts Festival at EST/LA starring Michael Mantell as Sibley and Sharon Rosner as Camilla.

ARS GRATIA ARTIS

Written and Directed by Tom Lazarus

SELECTED by the Alliance of Los Angeles Playwrights for a reading at the Sierra Madre Playhouse as part of their New Works Lab.

SELECTED for EST/LA’S WINTERFEST APRIL, 2016 2, 8:00 pm

On the MGM lot in 1929, Greta Garbo, mogul LB Mayer, silent film leading man Ramon Novarro, studio glamour photographer George Hurrell and studio fixer Howard Strickling fight to survive as Hollywood transitions from Silents to Talkies and the imposition of censorship as the country slips into the Depression.

Presently in Workshop at the Playwright’s Unit of EST/LA.

THE CHARACTERS

GRETA GARBO
Heather Robinson

GEORGE HURRELL
Kevin Comartin

RAMON NOVARRO

Douglas Dickerman

LB MAYER
Ray Xifo

HOWARD STRICKLING
William Duffy

MERCEDES DE ACOSTA
Anna Nicholas

KATHRYN CUDDY
Jeanne Syquia

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THE PRINCES OF KINGS ROAD – 2015 – 12 sold out performances.

Born near each other in Vienna, legendary Los Angeles architects Richard Neutra and Rudolph Schindler came to America in the early 1920’s, were employed by Frank Lloyd Wright, and lived and worked together in the Hollywood Hills.

After a tumultuous relationship, they were estranged for 23 years.

In 1953, Schindler takes ill and goes into the hospital.

A week later, by sheer coincidence, a nurse wheels in his new roommate: Richard Neutra.

This is where the new play THE PRINCES OF KINGS ROAD begins.

Directed by Tom Lazarus Produced by Stevie Stern Lazarus

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DO UNTO OTHERS – Writer/Director – 2013
Selected for WINTERFEST at Ensemble Studio Theater

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THE AUTOPSY OF HONEY BEES – Director – 2014
Selected for WINTERFEST at Ensemble Studio Theater

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STEVIE STERN AS KICK ASS MARY – Writer/Director – 2014

The Morgan/Wixon Theater, Santa Monica, California

STEVIE STERN AS JEWEL PARKER – Writer/Director – 2013

With songs by Bob Dylan, Joan Baez, Broadway song, Jazz and more.

The Hudson Theatre, Los Angeles, California

Written and Directed by Tom Lazarus

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THEATER

THE UNRAVELING

BLACK FLOWER IN THE WHITE HOUSE

SOLD OUT! SOLD OUT!

CHUCK MARSO & STEVIE STERN