Make your reservations today! The last Brevity Fest sold out. Don't be left out in the cold.
Come out for a drink and a laugh (or 2 or 3) at Extra Criticum Brevity Fest II, featuring writers, actors and musicians exposing themselves completely as they share some of their latest stuff with each other and with you. (nobody's on stage for more than 5 min... imagine that!)
When: Thursday, June 3, at 7:30pm.
Where: El Cid, 4212 Sunset Boulevard in Silverlake. (323) 668-0318.
Cover: $10. Menu includes full bar and great Spanish food. No drink minimum. Order what you like.
Email your NAME and the NUMBER in your party to: tickets@pinkplot.com
Brevity Fest participants include:
Monica Ashton, a relative newcomer to LA, but no newcomer to the worlds of music, publicity, production and law. In 2007, she produced a stellar CD with her Jazz Band which was recorded at Skywalker Sound. She is currently working on a Musical entitled Banjos and Bugles with David Secter, in addition to being involved with 2 short films, several gigs throughout LA, and a forthcoming European Tour with her Band. Contact info: www.monicaashton.com
Dennis Danziger teaches English in a Los Angeles public high school and writes about education for the Huffington Post. He will be reading an excerpt from his forthcoming novel, A Short History of a Tall Jew.
Rich Ferguson has performed across the country and has been heard on many radio stations, including WBAI, KCRW, KPFK, and World Radio. He has shared the stage with Patti Smith, Exene Cervenka, David Thomas of Pere Ubu, Terry Bozzio, and many other esteemed poets and musicians. Ferguson has been published in the LA TIMES, spotlighted on PBS (Egg: The Art Show), and was the recent winner in Opium Magazine’s Literary Death Match, LA. He is a regular contributor and poetry editor to the online literary journal, The Nervous Breakdown, and his spoken word/music video “All The Times” was screened at the Valley Film Festival in October 2009.
Amy Friedman writes the internationally syndicated column Tell Me a Story, has published two memoirs, three audiobooks and two children's books. She teaches creative writing at UCLA Extension, and her memoir The Murderer's House, just completed, tells the story of her 7-year marriage to a man in prison for murder.
Karen Hart is winner: 2008 Song of the Year, 2006 Barry Manilow Award for lyric writing, Best Song 2006. With 3 world premiers of her music at the Dorothy Chandler Pavilion, her songs for motion pictures have been singled out by Variety, People Magazine and the L.A. Times. Karen is the singing voice of Sigourney Weaver in Snow White and wrote all the songs for the Divine cult classic Lust In The Dust. Visit her at: www.KarenHartMusic.com
Julie Perkins writes and produces her own shit because no one else will hire her, she's VERY difficult. Go to thelandofperkistan.com to view short films and for performance updates.
Irene Soderberg is doing her life’s work; singing acting, helping many communities. Irene has just released her 5th CD. Irene’s opened for and worked with artists like Willie Nelson, Chaka Chan, Pat Benetar, Thelma Houston, Hootie and the Blowfish, The Weather Girls, Judy Tenuta, The Drifters, Grace Slick, and many more. Irene has performed in almost 1000 benefits for AIDS, equality, women’s and children’s assistance, etc. This is among her most important work. More information at: www.irenesoderberg.comRoland Tec is an award-winning playwright, composer and filmmaker. Most recent film credits include We Pedal Uphill: Stories from the States, 2001-2008 and Edward Zwick's Defiance, for which he served as co-producer. His 1999 film, All the Rage, is considered a hallmark of the queer indie film movement of the 1990s.
John Yearley won the Mickey Kaplan New American Play Prize for his play Leap, and the John Gassner Award for his play Ephemera. His plays A Low-Lying Fog and All In Little Pieces are published by Samuel French. His new play, Another Girl, will debut in a reading by Naked Angels in New York in October. Author of the forthcoming book Daddy's Not Tall Enough to Touch the Moon. Previous jobs include "script doctor" for New Line and phone operator for Barnes & Noble. Husband to Blair, father to Henry the Destroyer.
