La Jolla Playhouse Presents 'POP TOUR 2009' 3/14, 3/15

La Jolla Playhouse presents Pop Tour 2009, Miss Electricity. A new play for young audiences by Kathryn Walat and directed by Melissa Kievman.

Miss Electricity centers around a young girl named Violet. Tired of being picked on by the cool kids at school, Violet longs for respect. With the help of her best friend Freddy, Violet sets out to break a world record-any world record-so she can prove to her classmates how extraordinary she is. Just when things seem hopeless, something electric happens that changes Violet's and Freddy's lives and friendship forever.

The POP (Performance Outreach Program) Tour is a 50-minute play that travels throughout San Diego County schools, libraries and community centers. Designed to fit into a van, the set, costumes and props can be unloaded and placed in the space in just a few minutes. Each year a new play is commissioned that conveys a message of meaning and leaves children with real life lessons that address common issues. At the end of the tour there are 2 separate days of public performances for local patrons.

PERFORMANCE SCHEDULE
Saturday, MARCH 14TH at 1:00 pm and 3:30 pm
Sunday, MARCH 15TH at 1:00 pm and 3:30 pm

Rao and Padma Makineni Play Development Center, part of the Joan and Irwin Jacobs Center 2910 La Jolla Village Dr. La Jolla, CA 92037

$12 for adults
$9 for children (ages 13 and under)
$9 for La Jolla Playhouse subscribers and donors
By phone at (858) 550-1010 or Online at www.lajollaplayhouse.org

AT & T Yellow Pages, Crawford-Smith Foundation, QUALCOMM, San Diego Scottish Rite Foundation, Bank of America, The Jack in the Box Foundation, Ellen Browning Scripps Foundation, County of San Diego / Supervisor Pam Slater Price, City of San Diego Commission for Arts and Culture, Educational Foundation of America, The William Hall Tippett and Ruth Rathell Tippett Foundation, Arthur P. and Jeanette G. Pratt Memorial Fund, Sempra Energy, William Randolph Hearst Foundation

Order by phone at (858) 550-1010 Online at lajollaplayhouse.org

Box Office, located at 2910 La Jolla Village Drive, La Jolla, CA 92037

KATHYRN WALAT Her most recent play, Victoria Martin: Math Team Queen premiered Off-Broadway at the Women's Project (New York) and received its West Coast premiere at Moxie Theatre (San Diego) last season; her play Bleeding Kansas was produced last summer at the Hangar Theatre (Ithaca, NY) and this season at Moxie. Other plays include Connecticut, Greenspace, Know Dog, and her latest, Smile. Her work has been produced at Actors Theatre of Louisville, Salvage Vanguard Theater (Austin, TX), and Perishable Theatre (Providence, RI); and developed at Manhattan Theatre Club, Playwrights Horizons, MCC, Ars Nova, Boston Theatre Works, Sundance Playwrights Retreat at Ucross, Bay Area Playwrights Festival, Lark Play Development Center, and New Georges, where she is an affiliated playwright. Victoria Martin has been published by Samuel French and in New Playwrights: The Best Plays of 2007 (Smith & Kraus). Kate received her BA from Brown University and her MFA from Yale Drama School. She is currently working on a commission for Yale Repertory Theatre, and teaches playwriting at Marymount Manhattan College.

MELISSA KIEVMAN is a New York-based theater director and recent recipient of the NEA/TCG fellowship for directors. Kievman has directed dozens of new plays including the world premiere of Anon at the Atlantic Theater by Kate Robin, Walk Two Moons by Julia Jordan at the Lucille Lortel and The Necklace, a serial mystery, created with members of The Talking Band. Formerly Associate Artistic Director of New Dramatists, an urban writer's colony devoted to the support and development of new plays and playwrights, Melissa has developed new work by playwrights Brooke Berman, Melissa James Gibson, Roberto Aguirre-Sacasa, Julia Jordan, Sarah Treem, David Zellnik, Kelly Stuart, Laura Eason, Kate Walat, Ann Marie Healy and Laura Schellhardt at Ars Nova, Ensemble Studio Theatre, Children's Theater Company of Minneapolis, Soho Rep, Portland Center Stage, Geva Theater, The O'Neill Theater Center, Tisch School of the Arts, Voice and Vision, Syracuse Stage, Yale, ACT Seattle and Playwrights Horizons, among others. Kievman is a member of the Lincoln Center Directors Lab, a Drama League of New York Directing Fellow, has performed with the Bread and Puppet Theater in NYC and abroad and is a graduate of NYU's Tisch School of the Arts and Northwestern. Each August, together with her husband, director Brian Mertes, she co-directs Chekhov at Lake Lucille, an annual retreat and large-scale community performance event.

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