L.A. THEATRE WORKS
SUSAN ALBERT LOEWENBERG, PRODUCING DIRECTOR, presents
A Weekend with Pablo Picasso
Sunday, March 17, 2024 At 7pm
WRITTEN AND PERFORMED BY Herbert Sigüenza
VIDEO & SCENIC DESIGNER: VICTORIA PETROVICH
SOUND DESIGNER: MARK HOLDEN
TECHNICAL DIRECTOR & STAGE MANAGER: JESSICA KEASBERRY-VNUK
DIRECTED BY: ANNA LYSE ERIKSON
A Weekend with Pablo Picasso will be performed without an intermission.
The taking of photographs or use of any kind of recording device is strictly prohibited.
Pablo Picasso: HERBERT SIGÜENZA
Original music and sound design by Bruno Louchouarn. He was a cognitive scientist and award-winning composer, whose creative output included 600 original musical compositions including orchestral and chamber music; opera, dance, film, television and theater scores; and numerous sound and media installations.
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L.A. THEATRE WORKS
Producing Director: Susan Albert Loewenberg
Managing Director: Vicki Pearlson
Senior Producer: Anna Lyse Erikson
Marketing Director, Live Series: Fritz Meier
Senior Radio Producer: Ronn Lipkin
Audio Sales Director: Michele Cobb
Creative Services Director: Sam McCay
Associate Producer: Stacey Martinez
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Office Manager: Cyndi Gonzales
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When I was in second grade, my teacher Mrs. Sharp would pull me out of the reading circle and have me draw on giant rolls of butcher paper instead. She kept everything I drew . . . .That same year, my mother took me to the dentist. While we waited in the reception area I picked up a photo book by Douglas Duncan called The Private Life of Picasso. The beautiful black and white photos showed a shirtless old man that painted and played like a child. He also had doves, several dogs, and a goat. I turned and said to my mom, ‘When I grow up I want to be that old man.' ‘That's Pablo Picasso,' she said. ‘Es loco.' My dear mother did not discourage me, I knew better. The old man was not crazy but rather unconventional and free which inspired me profoundly to later live my own life in that manner. I went to art school, got a degree and later became an actor/writer so in a sense, this play took me my whole life to write. — HERBERT SIGÜENZA
HERBERT SIGÜENZA (Playwright and Performer) was the former Playwright in Residence for the San Diego Repertory Theatre thanks to a generous grant from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation. Herbert is also a founding member of the performance group Culture Clash. For twenty years Herbert and Culture Clash created a series of plays based off oral histories of residents from different neighborhoods throughout America. As a solo writer and performer Mr. Sigüenza has produced Cantinflas!, A Weekend with Pablo Picasso, Steal Heaven, El Henry (Best new play San Diego Critics Circle Award 2014), Manifest Destinitis, Beachtown, and Bad Hombres/Good Wives for the San Diego Rep. Mr. Sigüenza is also an accomplished visual artist and has exhibited both nationally and internationally. He has a BFA in printmaking from the California College of Arts, Oakland, California. TV and Film credits include: Ben Ten Alien Swarm for the Cartoon Network, and Larry Crowne feature film, directed by Tom Hanks. His voice was prominently featured in Pixar’s 2017 Oscar-winning animation feature, Coco.
ANNA LYSE ERIKSON (Director/Senior Producer) has served as point producer for over 75 L.A. Theatre Works live recordings, in-studio recordings, and tours, including The Hound of the Baskervilles (Audie Award Best Audio Drama 2014), Tribes (AudioFile Magazine’s Best of 2015), American Buffalo (Earphones Award 2015), Donny’s Brain (Earphones Award 2016), The Mountaintop (Earphones Award 2017), Watch on the Rhine (Earphones Award 2018), Disgraced (Audie Award Nominee 2018), Sisters Matsumoto (Earphones Award 2019), A Walk in the Woods (Earphones Award 2019). She was a founder and Artistic Director of VAGABOND, Director of Development for the Morgan-Wixson Theatre, Director of Outreach and Development for Independent Actors Theatre, and a casting and producing consultant for various commercial, film, theatre, and audio projects. Anna Lyse received a B.A. in Theatre Performance from the University of Missouri-Columbia, and an M.A. in Theatre History, Theory, and Criticism from the University of Colorado-Boulder, both with highest honors.
SUSAN ALBERT LOEWENBERG (Producing Director) is founder and Producing Director of L.A. Theatre Works, a non-profit media arts and theatre organization. Ms. Loewenberg has produced award-winning radio dramas, plays, and films in Los Angeles, New York, Chicago, and London. Under her supervision, LATW has created the largest library of plays on audio in the world, garnering numerous awards from the Corporation for Public Broadcasting, the Writers Guild, The American Library Association, Publishers’ Weekly, and others. Ms. Loewenberg also serves as host and is the Executive Producer of LATW’s nationally distributed syndicated radio series, L.A. Theatre Works, broadcast on NPR stations nationwide. A graduate of Sarah Lawrence College, she has served on innumerable boards and panels, including the National Endowment for the Arts, California Arts Council, The Center for Public Integrity, The Fund for Independence in Journalism in Washington D.C., and was co-chair of the League of Producers and Theatres of Greater Los Angeles. From 1996 to 2002, Ms. Loewenberg served during the Clinton administration on the Board of Directors for Federal Prison Industries, a presidential appointment, and served for several years as a member of the regional panel of the President’s Commission on White House Fellows. She is a Fellow of the Los Angeles Institute for the Humanities at USC. Ms. Loewenberg is the author of a number of articles that have appeared in American Theatre magazine, The Los Angeles Times, and various professional journals.
MARK HOLDEN (Sound Designer) has over two decades of experience producing, recording, and mixing various creative projects in studios, on sets, and on live stages. He has designed, recorded, and mixed over 250 plays, live shows, and national tours for L.A. Theatre Works, the BBC, and dozens of production houses, arts organizations, and podcast companies. As a composer and producer, Mark understands that communication and comfort are essential to a creative space, which is why he created The Invisible Studios in West Hollywood, CA. This commercial production and post-production environment is home to the many projects overseen by Mark and his team. Using his adapting, consulting, and project management experience, he helps both new and established dramas take flight in the audio drama renaissance. Most recently Mark produced the Audie-nominated WAKE: The Hidden History of Women-Led Slave Revolts and his team adapted, recorded, and designed the Audie-winning Pipeline for L.A. Theatre Works. He has also voice-directed video games such as the hugely successful Honkai: Star Rail for miHoYo games. He has composed for radio, film, and television such as scoring the award-winning feature film Out in the Dark. Additionally, he has written, produced, and engineered for several genres of music and worked with some of the biggest names in commercial and creative voice talent. Learn more about Mark and his team at: theinvisiblestudios.com.
VICTORIA PETROVICH (Video & Scenic Designer) has been a part of the Weekend with Pablo Picasso evolution as projection designer since the 2009 workshop. The 2013 production (San Diego REP) won the San Diego Theatre Critics Circle Craig Noel Award for Outstanding Projection Design. Her previous collaboration with LATW was as scenic designer for Love of the Nightingale at the Santa Monica Museum. Other design work includes new operas with International Opera Theater in Cittá della Pieve, Italy (Sacco e Vanzetti, Errori!, and Sogno d'una notte di mezza estate); scenic designs for Anthony Davis’ Lear on the Second Floor and Lilith at Qualcomm Institute; scenic designs for No Exit and Paradise TBD with Project [BLANK]; production designs (scenic/costume/video) for El Cimarrón (2019) and Fall of the House of Usher (2023) as part of the Festival UNAM in Mexico City. Victoria teaches design in the Department of Theatre & Dance, U.C. San Diego.
OMAR RAMOS (Assistant Video & Scenic Designer) Ramos received his Master of Fine Arts degree in Theatre Design with a dual focus in lighting and sound from the University of California, San Diego. His design and associate design credits from across the U.S. include the Goodman Theatre and Chicago Shakespeare Theater (Chicago), McCarter Theatre Center (Princeton, NJ), Oregon Shakespeare Festival (Ashland), and San Diego Repertory Theatre. He is invested in theatre that outreaches to children, veterans, survivors of domestic abuse, and their families. He also gravitates to work that sheds light on the politics of race and serves LGBT+ communities. More information about his work can be found at: https://www.omarramosdesign.com
JESSICA KEASBERRY-VNUK (Technical Director/Stage Manager) is excited to be working on her first tour with L.A. Theatre Works! Most recent credits include 2:22 - A Ghost Story, The Secret Garden, A Transparent Musical, A Christmas Story (Center Theatre Group) and Inherit the Wind (Pasadena Playhouse). Jessica has also worked at The Old Globe, Williamstown Theatre Festival, South Coast Repertory, Laguna Playhouse, and International City Theatre. She holds a B.A. in Drama and a certificate in Arts Management from UCI.