Brenda Varda

Brenda Varda

BRENDA VARDA BIO:
A writer, songwriter, performer and educator, her career started in acting, in regional theatre, Second City, television and film. In the theatre she continues to work as playwright, musical director and composer, and has worked with a large number of new works in Los Angeles, at such theatres as Bootleg, Sacred Fools, Unknown Theatre, the Met, and more. Her own theatre works...
BRENDA VARDA BIO:
A writer, songwriter, performer and educator, her career started in acting, in regional theatre, Second City, television and film. In the theatre she continues to work as playwright, musical director and composer, and has worked with a large number of new works in Los Angeles, at such theatres as Bootleg, Sacred Fools, Unknown Theatre, the Met, and more. Her own theatre works include "Fables Du Theatre", "Liquid", "A Play In a Restaurant With a Piano and A Bar", "Alice Through the Wormhole" and "Things That Fall From the Sky" (ACTF award). Varda’s work has received support from the Center for Cultural Innovation, UCIRA Emerging Artist Fund, the L.A. History Project, Edge Fest, the Mellon Foundation, and the Gluck Foundation. She currently teaches Psychology of Cinema/Performance, and is also the founder of Wordspace (an L.A. based organization for writers), one of the founders of Circle Readings, and a member of Fellswoop Playwrights. She has a band that does original jazz/Americana. www.brendavarda.com

Plays

  • Reactor: simple, clean, efficient by Brenda Varda
    Cast: 
    6
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    Genre: dark comedy, drama + 2 more
    Genre: dark comedy, drama, fantasy, political
    Under the shadow of San Onofre Nuclear Generating Station, a young woman struggles to repair her nuclear family, searching the atomic energy globe for voices that know the secret tradeoffs of fission and the impossible hopes for fusion. An absurd journey to find the heart of science, with Russian babushka’s, Japanese manzai, anti nuke activists, and Luis Alvarez.
    "REACTOR is a smart, humorous piece...
    Under the shadow of San Onofre Nuclear Generating Station, a young woman struggles to repair her nuclear family, searching the atomic energy globe for voices that know the secret tradeoffs of fission and the impossible hopes for fusion. An absurd journey to find the heart of science, with Russian babushka’s, Japanese manzai, anti nuke activists, and Luis Alvarez.
    "REACTOR is a smart, humorous piece that asks the audience for moments of contemplation of their own actions that enable a dangerous world of action and emotion that could come crashing down in flames at any moment. " Thomas Hampton Reviews
  • Liquid by Brenda Varda
    Cast: 
    12–19
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    Genre: adventure, comedy + 6 more
    Genre: adventure, comedy, dark comedy, experimental, farce, immersive, movement/physical, satire
    “Liquid” follows the adventures of Odam and Nevah, two scientists working in the same laboratory on a remote Pacific Island. When a tsunami washes them out to sea, both must find a way back to civilization with the help of anthropomorphic dolphins, mer-people and a flotilla of waterborne senior citizens.
    Its vision of a planet in complete ecological meltdown, fighting against environmental pitfalls and...
    “Liquid” follows the adventures of Odam and Nevah, two scientists working in the same laboratory on a remote Pacific Island. When a tsunami washes them out to sea, both must find a way back to civilization with the help of anthropomorphic dolphins, mer-people and a flotilla of waterborne senior citizens.
    Its vision of a planet in complete ecological meltdown, fighting against environmental pitfalls and Four Heads of the Apocalypse.
  • Fables Du Theatre by Brenda Varda
    Cast: 
    10–16
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    Genre: commedia dell'arte, fable/folktale + 4 more
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    Keyword: interactive, Heightened
    Genre: commedia dell'arte, fable/folktale, fantasy, farce, immersive, satire
    Keyword: interactive, Heightened
    When Immanence Theatre Company collaborates with your company on this night of theatrical fables, anything can happen and probably will. Your actors will encounter the amazing stories of "The Stage Coffeehouse (In Another Part of the World)" a doomed romance, "Xeera's Night (In Another "Playhouse")," in which a succubus falls in love with her victim, and finally, "The...
    When Immanence Theatre Company collaborates with your company on this night of theatrical fables, anything can happen and probably will. Your actors will encounter the amazing stories of "The Stage Coffeehouse (In Another Part of the World)" a doomed romance, "Xeera's Night (In Another "Playhouse")," in which a succubus falls in love with her victim, and finally, "The Spoiled Child (In a Place Just Like This One)" is about a girl who wants the moon. It may help (or not) that Immanence doesn't really exist...
  • Fables Du Theatre by Brenda Varda
    Cast: 
    10–16
    ·
    Genre: commedia dell'arte, fable/folktale + 4 more
    ·
    Keyword: interactive, Heightened
    Genre: commedia dell'arte, fable/folktale, fantasy, farce, immersive, satire
    Keyword: interactive, Heightened
    When Immanence Theatre Company collaborates with your company on this night of theatrical fables, anything can happen and probably will. Your actors will encounter the amazing stories of "The Stage Coffeehouse (In Another Part of the World)" a doomed romance, "Xeera's Night (In Another "Playhouse")," in which a succubus falls in love with her victim, and finally, "The...
    When Immanence Theatre Company collaborates with your company on this night of theatrical fables, anything can happen and probably will. Your actors will encounter the amazing stories of "The Stage Coffeehouse (In Another Part of the World)" a doomed romance, "Xeera's Night (In Another "Playhouse")," in which a succubus falls in love with her victim, and finally, "The Spoiled Child (In a Place Just Like This One)" is about a girl who wants the moon. It may help (or not) that Immanence doesn't really exist...