Katselas Theatre Co's MAD WOMEN Closes July 31

THE KATSELAS THEATRE COMPANY's smash hit World Premiere MAD WOMEN, conceived, written and performed by John Fleck, directed by Ric Montejano, will close on July 31.

MAD WOMEN, developed out of KTC's INKubator series is performed at Skylight Theatre - Skylab (1816 N. Vermont, LA 90027.) Tickets are $20 and may be purchased at 702 KTC- TKTS (702-582-8587) or at www.Katselastheatre.com.

BUCKLE UP for a hair raising roller coaster ride through hell and back with 2 hysterical mad women, Ms. Judy Garland and Josephine Fleck accompanied by their sons Joey and Johnny who survive the ride. Gulp.

John Fleck's work received national attention in 1990, when, along with three other performance artists, he became part of what was known as the "NEA 4." Labeled by some political pundits as "too dirty to be funded", the NEA 4 spearheaded a national campaign against artistic repression and won their Supreme court case against the National Endowment for the Arts. In 1998, the Supreme Court, with the backing of the Clinton Administration, overturned part of the case and determined that ‘standards of decency' was constitutional. Soon after, the NEA eliminated all funding for ‘new genre' categories.

Fleck has won numerous grants and awards, among them 2 NEA's, a Getty Fellowship, a Franklin Furnace & Jerome Foundation Fellowship, a Rockefeller/NEA- Interarts grant and LA Cultural Affairs funding. He has won 3 LA Critics Circle Awards, 8 DramaLogue, 6 LA Weekly and 2 BackStage West awards, all for outstanding performance.
His past body of solo work includes: Johnny's Got a Gun, Nothin' Beats Pussy,Mud in your Eye, Dirt, me, A Snowball's Chance in Hell, Blessed are all the Little Fishes, PsychoOpera and I Got the He-be-she-be's. A sampling of past performance venues includes; the ICA (London), ICA (Boston) Warhol Museum (Pittsburg), The Public Theater, The Guggenheim Museum, PS-122, LaMama Theater, Dixon Place & Joe's Pub (NYC), The Getty Museum, Cal Plaza, MOCA (LA).
Fleck also works frequently in theater. A sampling of past work includes: PEACE (@ the Getty Villa w/ Culture Clash), Tobacco Road (La Jolla Playhouse) She Stoops to Comedy (Evidence Room) A Perfect Wedding (Kirk Douglas Theater, LA), Applause (Reprise, UCLA), Noises Off (Cape Playhouse, Dennis, Mass), On the Jump (South Coast Rep), Small Craft Warnings, Cringe, The Berlin Circle (Evidence Room/LA), The Mystery of Irma Vep (Tiffany Theater/LA) & Tony Kushner's adaptation of The Illusion (LATC) and The Granny (The Old Globe, San Diego).

Founded in 1983, as Camelot Artists, and later renamed THE KATSELAS THEATRE COMPANY, is a home for actors, directors and writers to develop, and take creative risks. Through their programs (INKubator, Solomojo, KTC Playwrights, KTC Kids, New Voices) and their workshops and main stage productions, the aim is to bring together artists and audiences in order to participate in the artist's development process. The focus however, is not only on developing theatre artists, but creating the next generation of theatre audiences - thus our passion for new original plays.

The list of artists who have graced KTC's stages is too long to include here, but a few are: Brandon Crowder, James Cromwell, Howard Deutch, Jenna Elfman, Miguel Ferrer, John Fleck, Jorge Garcia, John Glover, Beth Grant, Helen Hunt, Mary McDonnell, Zoe Perry, Linda Purl, Gene Reynolds, Jason Ritter, Doris Roberts, Patrick Swayze, Jeffrey Tambor, Jon Tenney, Deborah Ann Woll, Lisa Wolpe and Grace Zabriskie.
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THE KATSELAS THEATRE COMPANY presents MAD WOMEN, conceived, written and performed by John Fleck, directed by Ric Montejano The production will extend beginning June 10th and plays Fridays at 8 p.m. and Sunday's at 7pm through July 31st at Skylight Theatre - Skylab (1816 N. Vermont, LA 90027.) Tickets are $20 and may be purchased at 702 KTC- TKTS (702-582-8587) or at www.Katselastheatre.com.

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