BRAND NEW PIECE PREMIERES MAY 26th, 07

Hello,
Saturday, MAY 26th, 8 pm (Memorial Day Weekend- )
Please come and share the FREE!!!!!! debut of my brand new one-woman playette:

“THE LAST DAYS OF DESMOND NANI REESE: A Stripper’s History of the World”
written and performed by Heather Woodbury
A series of encounters between a one hundred and eight- year old stripper holed up in a bramble-covered shack in Los Angeles and a young feminist academic, in the year 2014.


Saturday, May 26th at 8pm
FREE ADMISSION, FREE PARKING (paid for by your tax dollars!!!)
Barnsdall Gallery Theatre (in the Barnsdall Art Park) 4800 Hollywood Blvd.
Aprroximate Length: 75 minutes.

About past work, critics say:
“Breathtaking.”
-NY TIMES
“A tender writer…vivid and assured ..”
-VILLAGE VOICE
“Thrillingly poetic and daring”
-VARIETY
“Her vision has a sweep and maturity that is…thrilling to behold”
-LA TIMES
“Wildly funny and infinitely sad.”
-THE IRISH TIMES

Currently I am a 2007 recipient of the City of LA Fellowship for Performance (paid for by the Department of Cultural Affairs-- your tax dollars!!!)
2006 recipient of the Spalding Gray Award which “recognizes fearless innovators who fully realize the writing AND performing aspects of Gray’s legacy.”
1998 Best Solo Performance from the LA Weekly
2001 Kennedy Award Winning Playwright

Saturday, May 26th at 8pm
FREE ADMISSION, FREE PARKING (paid for by your tax dollars!!!)
Barnsdall Gallery Theatre (in the Barnsdall Art Park)
4800 Hollywood Blvd.
Los Angeles, CA 90027
323-644-6272

Paid for, in part, by the Los Angeles Department of Cultural Affairs

TALE OF 2CITIES WORLD PREMIERE LA/NY 9/06

Tale of 2Cities premieres this September 30th - October 29th in a bicoastal production at UCLA Liveand at Performance Space 122 in New York with an extraordinary seven-member ensemble cast featuring actors Winsome Brown, Michael Ray Escamilla, Tracey A. Leigh, Leo Marks, Diane Rodriguez, Ed Vassallo, and Heather Woodbury.

ABOUT TALE OF 2CITIES (while it was in development)
"Entrancing and exhilarating molding gut-wrenching truths and hilarious caricatures into a portrait of the family of man-past and present."
--Mary Houlihan, Chicago Sun-Times

Tale of 2Cities:An American Joyride on Multiple Tracks is a six-act, two-part play about contemporary urban displacement and the reverberations caused by the Dodgers' historic 1957 transplant to L.A. Tale won both an NEA Fellowship and a Kennedy Award while in development at the NY Public Theater. It premieres this October at UCLA Live in Los Angeles and Performance Space 122 in New York with a multi-racial ensemble cast.
It is published in September, 2006 by semio(e)text/MIT press

Tale of 2Cities is a collision of life-stories from New York and Los Angeles spun into an epic mix by a young Echo Park DJ mourning his grandmother's death and traces the impact of displacement on three generations of characters on both coasts when the Brooklyn Dodgers moved across country. From the rise of Senator McCarthy to the fall of the twin towers, "Tale swoops through cities and drops into the minds of a mini-series worth of major and minor characters." (David Cote, Timeout NY)

BROOKLYN BALL TEAMS AND WRECKING BALLS 7/06

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Fomenting ARTS' bicoastal series of "re-collection events" moves to New York with:

BROOKLYN BALL TEAMS AND WRECKING BALLS


Sunday, August 6th. 3 p.m., Brooklyn Baseball Gallery at KeySpan Park in Coney Island



Theater meets baseball as the TALE OF 2CITIES Project moves to New York for the third in its series of bicoastal "re-collection events".
TALE OF 2CITIES: AN AMERICAN JOYRIDE ON MULTIPLE TRACKS is a soon-to-debut play by Heather Woodbury that looks at the move of the Brooklyn Dodgers to Los Angeles in 1957 and the lasting effect the move had on three generations of characters in the neighborhoods affected by that move. The multi-actor play has a bicoastal world premiere in October, 2006 at UCLA LIVE'S FIFTH INTERNATIONAL THEATRE FESTIVAL and in New York City at Performance Space 122.

What's a "re-collection event"? The "re-collection events" are designed to bring theater to the community and the community to the theater. Each event includes a sneak-preview reading of selections from Tale of 2Cities by prominent actors, presentations by local community groups and a public forum on the subject of urban redevelopment and the importance of neighborhoods, past and present. Audience members are encouraged to bring photographs, accounts of neighborhoods past and present and other memorabilia that speak to the play's central concern of shifting urban landscapes. These will be duplicated and collected in the growing bicoastal “community scrapbooks" and make up a companion display that will travel with the play through its production, with some elements contributing to the projection-based set design. A LIMITED NUMBER OF FREE TICKETS TO THE CYCLONES GAME TO FOLLOW THE EVENT WILL BE AVAILABLE TO THOSE WHO BRING A PHOTO OR OTHER PIECE OF MEMORABILIA.


Sunday, August 6th, 3pm - FREE
Brooklyn Baseball Gallery at KeySpan Park
1904 Surf Avenue in Coney Island - Parking is available
Directions: www.brooklyncyclones.com or (718) 499-8497
Limited number of Tickets available for Cyclones game following the event - for information write americanjoyride@aol.com

A six-act, two-part saga, Tale of 2Cities is a collision of life-stories from
New York and Los Angeles spun into an epic mix by a young Echo Park DJ
mourning his grandmother's death. Flashing back to 1957 when the
Brooklyn Dodgers abandoned one neighborhood while in LA another was
lost to make way for the transplanted team's new stadium, Tale creates a
live séance among generations of interwoven characters on both coasts.
From the rise of Senator McCarthy to the fall of the twin towers," Tale swoops
through cities and drops into the minds of a mini-series worth of major and
minor characters."

“Entrancing and exhilarating…molding gut-wrenching truths and hilarious caricatures
into a portrait of the family of man—past and present.”
— Mary Houlihan, Chicago Sun-Times


The Tale of 2Cities "re-collection events" series started in Los Angeles with THERE GOES THE BARRIO on May 31st at the Los Angeles Central Library and THE CITY NOW AND THE CITY WE KNEW on July 9th at the Skirball Cultural Center. Following BROOKLYN BALL TEAMS AND WRECKING BALLS, the final event in the series, THE DEATH AND LIFE OF GREAT NEW YORK NEIGHBORHOODS, will be held at the Tobacco Warehouse in DUMBO on August 22nd.




Cultural Sponsors of the 2Cities “re-collection” project: ALOUD at Los Angeles Central Library,
The Baseball Reliquary, Boyle Heights Poets/Dolores Mission School, Brooklyn Baseball Gallery,
Brooklyn Bridge Park Conservancy, Casa 0101/LA THEATRE PROJECTS, Casa Del Pueblo,
Consejo Popular de Echo Park, Councilman Eric Garcetti, Councilman Bill Rosendahl, Da'hui Man'gu-Community
Land Trust, Develop Don't Destroy Brooklyn, The Eagle Rock Arts Center, Echo Park Film Center,
Inside Out Community Arts, Performance Space 122, Progressive Jewish Alliance, semiotext(e),
Skirball Cultural Center, South Central Farmers Feeding Families, UCLA Live, The Virginia Avenue Project.

Sunday, October 22, 2006

“Breathtakingly expansive, bears comparison to the titanic undertakings of Anna Deavere Smith and Tony Kushner." - Charles McNulty, The L.A. Times

New York Times Review http://theater2.nytimes.com/2006/10/19/theater/reviews/19joy.html

Heather Woodbury's
Tale of 2Cities: An American Joyride on Multiple Tracks

Tuesday-Sunday performances at P.S. 122 running until October 29
Reservations STRONGLY Recommended!

Directed by Dudley Saunders
With Winsome Brown, Michael Ray Escamilla, Tracey A. Leigh, Leo Marks, Diane Rodriguez, Ed Vassallo and Heather Woodbury

Tale of 2Cities opened to great reviews in Los Angeles:

Los Angeles Times Review
http://www.calendarlive.com/stage/cl-et-tale2oct02,0,3206311.story?coll=

Variety Review
http://www.variety.com/review/VE1117931763?categoryId=33&cs=1

Tale of 2Cities is seen in two parts:
Part I "Grifters, Drifters and Dodgers"
Part II "Mega Mixicana Waltz"

Schedule:
Tuesdays and Thursdays: Part 1 at 8 p.m.
Wednesdays and Fridays: Part 2 at 8 p.m.
Saturdays and Sundays:
Part 1 at 2 p.m., Part 2 at 7 p.m.
$20, $15 (students/seniors),
$10 (members)

For Tickets: www.theatermania.com or call 212-352-3101

More information: www.heatherwoodbury.com or www.ps122.org

Tale of 2Cities is a collision of life-stories from New York and Los Angeles spun into an epic mix by a young Echo Park DJ mourning his grandmother's death. Flashing back to 1957 when the Brooklyn Dodgers abandoned one neighborhood while in LA another was lost to make way for the transplanted team's new stadium, Tale creates a live séance among generations of interwoven characters on both coasts. From the rise of Senator McCarthy to the fall of the twin towers," Tale swoops through cities and drops into the minds of a mini-series worth of major and minor characters."


“Entrancing and exhilarating…molding gut-wrenching truths and hilarious caricatures
into a portrait of the family of man—past and present.”
— Mary Houlihan, Chicago Sun-Times


*To volunteer to sell Woodbury’s books and T-shirts before the show and during intermission in exchange for a ticket, please contact elevy1@verizon.net .
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NEW in 2007

Hello, this is me, Heather, speaking in the first person. Mostly, you'll notice, this site speaks in the third person omnicient. However, here in this blog, things are different. First, here's my latest, a tv interview about my two living novels, in paperback, check it out
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MOMKqK5RrH4
Right now, as a lucky recipient of the City of L.A. Artist fellowship, I'm writing a new piece, which I'll premiere as a work in progress at Los Angeles' fabulous Barnsdall Art Park, May 26th, 2007.

Also, you can read about the recent 2006 bi-coastal premiere of Tale of 2Cities:An American Joyride on Multiple Tracks.

NY Times:
http://theater2.nytimes.com/2006/10/19/theater/reviews/19joy.html?adxnnl=1&adxnnlx=1162855781-WasZiqeMs26QyYZHQ49nlw

LA Times:
http://www.calendarlive.com/stage/cl-et-tale2oct02,0,3206311.story?coll=

LA Weekly:
http://www.laweekly.com/stage/theater/theater-reviews/14555/

Variety:
http://www.variety.com/review/VE1117931763?categoryId=33&cs=1

Village Voice:
http://villagevoice.com/theater/0643,soloski,74829,11.html

LA City Beat:
http://www.lacitybeat.com/article.php?id=4434&IssueNum=174

nytheatre.com:
http://www.nytheatre.com/nytheatre/tale4139.htm

NY Times Profile:
http://www.nytimes.com/2006/10/18/theater/18tale.html?ex=1162962000&en=98f5a89dd7494a86&ei=5070

LA Times Profile:
http://www.calendarlive.com/printedition/calendar/suncal/cl-ca-woodbury24sep24,0,1754909.story?coll=cl-suncal

LA Daily News/Long Beach Press Telegram Profile:
http://www.presstelegram.com/stage/ci_4405605