Introducing the 2018-2019 Los Angeles Academy Company
It is with much honor that we introduce this year’s Los Angeles Academy Company and anticipate this full season of moving performances from the newest generation of dedicated and powerful actors.

Led by veteran acting instructor Betty Karlen, the Company performs a wide number of plays ranging from classical to contemporary, which are performed before an invited audience of Academy guests, agents, casting directors and other industry professionals.
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Directed by: Betty Karlen
This 1960’s French farce adapted for the English-speaking stage features self-styles Parisian lothario Bernard, who has Italian, German, and American fiancées, each a beautiful airline hostess with frequent “layovers.” He keeps “one up, one down, and one pending” until unexpected schedule changes bring all three to Paris, and Bernard’s apartment, at the same time.
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Directed by: Diana Brown
Susan, a housewife, is married is to a boring cleric named George. After getting knocked out by stepping on the tooth end of a garden rake, Susan experiences hilarious hallucinations in which her oppressive and boring everyday life is replaced by a fantasy in which she is an ideal wife and mother with an ideal family.
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Directed by: Mary Bleier
Beaudette Miller is having a quarter-life crisis. Her grandmother is on her death bed, her twit of a sister is strangely in town, and she can't seem to convince the three people she's sleeping with that she doesn't really need them. But Beau can't find a logical reason to need anybody. For Beau, there are only two types of people in the world: ranters and collateral damage. And, she's made her choice.
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Directed by: Ian Ogilvy
The play is set in the dining room of a typical well-to-do household, the place where the family assembled daily for breakfast and dinner and for any and all special occasions. The action is a mosaic of interrelated scenes—some funny, some touching, some rueful—which, taken together, create an in-depth portrait of a vanishing species: the upper-middle-class WASP.
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Directed by: Rob Clare
Assistant Directed By: Adam Kroeger
After a long civil war between the royal family of York and the royal family of Lancaster, England enjoys a period of peace under King Edward IV and the victorious Yorks. But Edward’s younger brother, Richard, resents Edward’s power and the happiness of those around him. Malicious, power-hungry, and bitter about his physical deformity, Richard begins to aspire secretly to the throne…
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Directed by: Betty Karlen
In this hilarious satire on B-movies of the 1950's, Mary Eleanor, an innocent duped into crime, lands in the Greenwich Village Woman's House of Detention, presided over by a massive matron with a taste for sadism and female flesh as our heroine, now Caged in the Big House, learns about life The Hard Way.
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Directed by: Timothy Landfield
Nora Helmer is a vibrant young housewife who depends on her husband of eight years. When he becomes ill, she makes a secret arrangement to pay for his cure. The revelation of her secret has unexpected consequences for both her husband and herself. Known as "the father of modern drama," Ibsen reveals the challenges faced by husband and wife to create a real marriage.
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Directed by: Betty Karlen
A contemporary drama that pushes the edges and embraces the harsh reality of today's youth. At an elite university, when the party of the year results in the regret of a lifetime, one person will stop at nothing to salvage a future that is suddenly slipping away. In this quick-witted and gripping comic tragedy about 'Generation Me,' it's every man for himself.
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Directed by: Joe J. Garcia
What's wrong with nine-year-old Jesse? He can't sit still, he curses, he raps, and you can't get him into—or out of—pajamas. His teacher thinks it's Attention Deficit Disorder. Dad says, "He's just a boy!" And Mama's on a quest for answers. Is Jesse dysfunctional, or just different? Don't we all have ADD, to some degree? A hilarious, provocative, and poignant look at a modern family and an epidemic dilemma: Are we so tuned into our 24/7 info-rich world that we've tuned out what really matters?
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Directed by: Scott Ramp
Colin must be comforted in his grief over the death of his fiancée so his friends, who never met the girl, arrange a tea party for him, where almost nothing goes as planned.
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Directed by: Betty Karlen
This funny, trenchant, and powerful play follows an ambitious group of editorial assistants at a notorious Manhattan magazine, each of whom hopes for a starry life of letters and a book deal before they turn thirty. But when an ordinary humdrum workday becomes anything but, the stakes for who will get to tell their own story become higher than ever.
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Directed by: Michele Martin Gossett
The setting is an abandoned railroad maintenance station in the rural South, which Larkin, a temporary college drop-out, has moved into both in order to think over his future and to spend more time with his nubile young girlfriend, Jewel. His friends don’t approve and will do everything in their power to lead him away from her.
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Directed by: Mark Knowles
In October 1998, a twenty-one-year-old student at the University of Wyoming was kidnapped, severely beaten, and left tied to a fence in the middle of the prairie outside Laramie, Wyoming. His bloody, bruised, and battered body was not discovered until the next day, and he died several days later in an area hospital. His name was Matthew Shepard, and he was the victim of this assault because he was gay. Moisés Kaufman and fellow members of the Tectonic Theater Project made six trips to Laramie over the course of a year and a half, in the aftermath of the beating and during the trial of the two young men accused of killing Shepard. They conducted more than 200 interviews with the people of the town. Some people interviewed were directly connected to the case, while others were citizens of Laramie, and the breadth of the reactions to the crime is fascinating. Kaufman and Tectonic Theater members have constructed a deeply moving theatrical experience from these interviews and their own experiences in Laramie. The Laramie Project is a breathtaking collage that explores the depths to which humanity can sink and the heights of compassion of which we are capable.
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Directed by: Adam Chambers and Diana Brown
North of Providence is a painful domestic crisis between brother and sister, who are uncovering old wounds on the last day of their father's life.
Rosemary with Ginger: Two sisters meet in a closed-down diner and slowly reveal the strife they're experiencing at home. The sisters wrangle, accuse and attack, but mostly discover that, without each other, they have nothing.
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