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The Lost Studio, 130 South La Brea Avenue, Los Angeles, CA 90036-2910
Artistic Director and teacher, Cinda Jackson, announces the return of John Steppling to the Lost Theatre. The Lost Studio will be the new home for his Gunfighter Nation, a theatre and film consortium, with a September-October production of the LA History Project followed by his new play Phantom Luck in November and a Christmas Festival in December 2010.
Their first production is the LA History Project: the Secret Procession of Los Angeles runs from September 17, through October 3rd playing Fridays and Saturdays at 8pm and Sundays at 7 pm. This guerilla theatre piece is linked to John's teachings and writers from his Gunfighter Nation theatre and film consortium*.
John Steppling is planning a series of intensive writing workshops. For information, contact Gunfighter Nation jsteppling@gmail.com or the Lost Studio at 323 933 6944. The workshops will include playwriting workshops as well as specific weekends focused on specific topics (adaptation of classics, writers and directors, etc.).
The L A History Project: Pio Pico, Sam Yorty and the Secret Procession of Los Angeles
A dark meditation on the unseen forces that shape the universe that is El Lay. Historical, feverish and anarchic - the LA History Project lives in the border regions between apocalypse and epiphany...Pio Pico, the early ubiquitous godfather of so cal, and Sam Yorty, the race baiting crafty backroom matador who served to usher in modern Los Angeles. A dark mass performed over the living corpse of our current necropolis and home.
Written and performed by Gunfighter Nation.
Meet John and Cinda after each performance. This is the beginning of an ongoing series of dynamic plays and future seminars. You can find out more about Cinda and John's classes.
Anyone from From the Heart can get a ticket for a FREE treat at intermission by emailing CaroleEDean@att.net. I took a class at the Lost Studio in the early 90's, the Circus Minimus Interdisciplinary workshop for writers/directors/actors which John and Cinda founded along with Mick Collins. Cinda taught acting and John taught writing and they both taught directing. The interconnectedness of these three elements is what allowed me to break though my rigid concepts of art. It gave me a better understanding of all of the elements needed to make it work. I promise you this work will open your creative channels.
Cinda Jackson has owned the Lost Studio for over 20 years, serving as Artistic Director and teacher. She studied with Peggy Feury and William Traylor for 10 years before she began teaching. Ms. Jackson also has a Masters degree in modern dance and was part of the dance faculty at Indiana University before moving to Los Angeles.
Cinda Jackson received the Best Director Dramalogue award for her production of Danny and the Deep Blue Sea which also garnered best acting ensemble and lighting awards. She has also received La Weekly's pick of the week for her directing efforts on 4-H Club, Neck, The Lost Studio Christmas Festival and Night School, part of the Lost Studio Pinter Project. Cinda has directed everything from the classics to avant-garde post modern writers, from Shakespeare, Chekhov, Schnitzler, Shaw, Pinter, and Shepard to Steppling.
The Lost Studio Pinter Project began in 2000 exploring the body of this writer's work and has thus far included productions of seven of Pinter's plays. These award winning and critically acclaimed productions have been directed by Cinda Jackson and some by John Pleshette.
She is also artistic director of Les Enfants Magiques!, the highly successful children's classical theatre workshops at the Lost Studio created and managed by Cinda.
Cinda's classes start in September and January of each year. She is looking for aspiring, dedicated actors to join her intensive scene study classes. Call 323 933 6944.
*Gunfighter Nation was formed in 2009 as a response to the stifling of theatre opportunities on the LA cultural map and the arid and trivial landscape of most institutional theatre. Artistic Director, John Steppling is a native of Southern California and a Rockefeller Fellow and two times NEA recipient, who recently returned from a decade in Europe where he taught at the Polish National Film School and in Norway in conjunction with the Mid-Nordic Film fund. He met with his son, Alexis Steppling, a community organizer and founder of Soul Rebel Radio on KPFK, and with veteran New York playwright, critic and actor, Harvey Perr, as well as Guy Zimmerman, artistic director of a variety of award-winning actors (James Storm, Mark Rolston, Lisa Denke, Gray Palmer, Heidi Darchuk, among others) and young filmmakers (Norway's Gunnhild Skrodal, and Jeptha Storm of L.A.) and musicians as varied as jazz and avant-garde legend Don Preston, and drummer Efe Agin-dotan, born into a noted family of Nigerian drummers and now head of how to own touring drum ensemble, writer and designer Rita Valencia, established Southern California writers such as Sharon Yablon and Leon Martell, and a host of young enthusiasts.
Gunfighter Nation continues to see itself as a laboratory for all things cultural There is a decided pedagogical aspect and the process of teaching is guided by a desire to illuminate the anti-commoditized realm of that particular dimension of the creative that looks to awaken the audience as well as to entertain. We believe art should start with questions, and with attention to process. Everything is not a product, but should be an experiment.
Gunfighter Nation's inaugural production
was The Alamo Project, performed at the venerable Odyssey
Theatre in L.A., this last May. The group has found a new home
at The Lost Studio in Hollywood. In addition to ongoing
workshops for writing and directing, Gunfighter Nation is planning
The L.A. History Project
(in September of this year) and The 12 Days of Christmas, Minus
One, in December. Gunnhild Steppling and Gunfighter
Nation are developing a joint project with Joanna Kloss of the
Witkacy Foundation in Warsaw bring polish acting legend Marian Opania
to do a dual language King Lear with Mick Collins, a production originally
staged in Lodz Poland at Film School Student Theatre to universal acclaim
in the Polish press". And a series of experimental film workshops
for teens. This is just in the first year of Gunfighter Nation.
Please visit our blog at www.gfnation.wordpress.com Artistic director John Stepping. The Norway/US
link for John and Gunnhild is http://www.steppling.net/
John Steppling
Interview with John by Times Quotidian contributor Rita Valencia
John's Awards and Grants:
Rockefeller Fellowship (Theatre) 1985,NEA Grants (Playwriting and Directing) , PEN-West Award (Best Play, Teenage Wedding) 1991, MacDowell Colony Residency , LA Weekly Award for Best Play (twice) ,Dramalogue Awards for Writing and Directing
Publications: Sea of Cortez and Other Plays (Sun & Moon Press) 1996 ,The Thrill (TCG Press) ,Dream Coast Dramatists Play Service) 1985 Anthologized in Best of the West (Padua Press, Theory of Miracles) Plays From Padua Hills (Padua Press, two volumes 1987, 2002, Understanding the Dead, Neck)
Film and TV: Wrote and directed short, Then They Recognized Me, 2009, Norway, Screenplay (adaptation of Eddie Bunker novel) for Animal Factory, directed by Steve Buscemi and starring Wilhem DaFoe. 2000, Screenplay for (adaptation of Elmore Leonard novel) for 52-Pick-Up, directed by John Frankenheimer, 1985. Staff writer for ABC network series Cracker (1998), Staff writer for FOX-TV series Key West, (1994), Freelance scripts for various network shows, and cable shows, Episodes for HBO Viet Nam War Stories and USA's Sins of the City.
Theatre Productions: Dog Mouth
(White Bear Theatre Club, London 2000 and The Evidence Room, LA, 2001
(see www.paduaplaywrightes.
Teaching:
PWSTiF im. L Schillera w Lodzi, screenwriting 2003-2007 (Polish National Film School). Mark Taper Forum, Mentors Program, LA, 1987-88, Thirteen summers at the Padua Hills Playwrights Workshop and Festival, 1981-1994, Seminars at University of Toledo, Sangaroon Arts Center, Bangkok, and at the New Vic (Screenwriters Lab) London. Private Workshops taught with Murray Mednick, LA, 1999. Screenwriting lab, Kino Lab, Warsaw 2005, English Literature at College of New Rochelle, NY, 1982, La Guardia Community College, NY Queens, 1982, and UCLA Extension (Creative Writing and English) 1986-87
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