Cornerstone Theater Company Presents FELLOWSHIP

Cornerstone Theater Company is pleased to present fellowship, a play for volunteers. fellowship is the story of volunteers giving their time at a local food bank when an unwanted stranger, Hunger, pays them a visit. The eighth play in Cornerstone's Hunger Cycle, fellowship is a performance that immerses the audience into the role of volunteer. At fellowship, you will be invited to help prepare and assemble sack lunches to be distributed to hungry people in Los Angeles.

fellowship will be performed Thursdays through Sundays, January 19 through February 12, in four locations across Los Angeles County including: MEND Poverty, Pico Union Project, Watts Labor Community Action Committee (WLCAC) and Westside Food Bank. Tickets are Pay-What-You-Can, suggested donation $20. For reservations, and specific details for each performance visit www.cornerstonetheater.org or call 1-800-578-1335. Capacity is limited and reservations are required.

fellowship tells the story of five souls that find fellowship in giving their time together in a weekly volunteer shift, making sandwiches for a local food bank. They work hard, sing, laugh, and share stories of what brought them to this service. This weekly time together is their church and sanctuary until the day a stranger enters. What happens when Hunger comes to visit?

fellowship has been created in partnership with Hunger Action Los Angeles (HALA), MEND Poverty (Meet Each Need with Dignity), Project Angel Food, Westside Food Bank, and Food Forward. HALA works to end hunger and promote healthy eating through advocacy, direct service, and organizing. MEND's mission is to break the bonds of poverty by providing basic human needs and a pathway to self-reliance. Project Angel Food aims to feed and nourish the sick as they battle critical illness, by cooking and delivering nutritious meals, free of charge, to homes throughout Los Angeles County to alleviate hunger, prevent malnutrition and return clients to health. Westside Food Bank's mission is to distribute as much food as possible to local agencies with food assistance programs and to reduce food waste on the Westside of Los Angeles County. Food Forward rescues fresh local produce that would otherwise go to waste, connecting this abundance with people in need, and inspiring others to do the same.

CREATIVE TEAM

Julie Marie Myatt (Playwright) Julie wrote A Man Comes to Fowler, for Cornerstone's Institute Summer Residency in the agricultural town of Fowler, California. Her play Someday premiered as part of Cornerstone's Justice Cycle in 2008. Other works include: The Happy Ones, premiered at South Coast Repertory; My Wandering Boy, premiered at South Coast Repertory in 2007 as part of the Pacific Playwrights Festival and produced in New York as part of the 2007 Summer Play Festival; Boats on a River, premiered at the Guthrie Theater, a finalist for the Susan Smith Blackburn Prize. Julie's work has been developed or seen at Actors Theatre of Louisville, Seattle Rep, Cherry Lane, A.S.K. Theatre Projects, LAByrinth Theater Company, Denver Center Theatre, among others. She received a Walt Disney Studios Screenwriting Fellowship, a Jerome Fellowship at the Playwrights' Center, and a McKnight Advancement Grant. She is currently working on commissions for ACT Seattle, Roundabout Theatre, and Yale Repertory. She is a resident member of New Dramatists.

Peter Howard (Director) Peter is a founding member of Cornerstone Theater Company. Born and raised in Massachusetts, he graduated from Harvard College with a degree in English and American Literature and holds a M.F.A. from the Department of Drama of the University of Virginia. With Cornerstone, Peter has performed in, written or otherwise collaborated on scores of productions in Los Angeles and around the country. As a playwright, his Cornerstone credits include Zones, an American Muslim adaptation of You Can't Take It with You and a bilingual adaptation of Lorca's Blood Wedding. Peter has served on staff of the National Conference for Community and Justice (NCCJ), working as a facilitator, playwright and director in a variety of youth arts programs that use theater as a springboard for dialogue on challenging human relations topics.

The cast of fellowship will feature (in alphabetical order):

Heidi Andino, Michele DeRosa, Marcenus "M.C." Earl, Angel Galvan, Deborah King, Page Leong, Matthew Ramos, Bahni Turpin and Luis Yepiz.

fellowship features an award-winning design team including: Music Director Chaka Jaliwa, Costume Design by Blanca Honigstein, Sound Design by Veronica Mullins, Mask Design by Nephelie Andonyadis

TICKET & VENUE INFORMATION
Pay-What-You-Can tickets ($20 suggested) are available at www.CornerstoneTheater.org.

Thursdays 7:30pm

Pico Union Project

1153 Valencia Street

Los Angeles, CA 90015

Fridays 7:30pm

Westside Food Bank

1710 22nd St

Santa Monica, CA 90404

Saturdays 5:00pm

MEND Poverty

10641 San Fernando Rd

Pacoima, CA 91331

Sundays 2:00pm

Watts Labor Community Action Committee (WLCAC)

10950 S Central Ave

Los Angeles, CA 90059

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