FABULOUS MONSTERS Set for Playwrights Nest Festival, 2/7

Fabulous Monsters a punk play by Diana Burbano is presented by the inaugural Playwrights' Nest Festival at the Los Angeles Theatre Center on Saturday, February 7, 3:30p. Get full Festival access with a $10 suggested donation at the door.

FABULOUS MONSTERS: 1977. The punk rock scene is in full swing. Two Latinas meet at a band audition at an L.A. punk club. After thirty years, life has taken them in different directions, drugs and hard living have exacted a brutal toll. They re-unite on stage and discover that two old broads can rock as hard as they ever did.

With Jennifer Parsons as Luisa, Preston Maybank as Nigel, Diana Burbano as Slade, Minerva Vier as Lulu, Anahi Bustillos as Sally and Julianna Stephanie Ojeda as Kady. Directed by Fidel Gomez.

Diana Burbano, a Colombian immigrant, is an Equity actress and a respected teaching artist at South Coast Repertory. She began to write after she realized that there were few parts of substance available for someone of her gender, ethnicity and age. Fabulous Monsters was a selection of Fullerton College's 25th Annual Playwrights Festival 2015. Silueta, her play with collaborators Tom and Chris Shelton, was a Playlab selection at the Great Plains Theater Conference, and was one of 4 productions at the Cygnet Theatre's Playwrights in Process Festival 2014.