CVRep Opens Season With HOW I LEARNED TO DRIVE

How I Learned to Drive by Paula Vogel. The play is a funny, surprising and devastating tale of survival as seen through the lens of a troubling relationship between a young girl and an older man.

How I Learned to Drive is a multi-award winning play, including the 1998 Pulitzer Prize. "Ms. Vogel has written a lovely, harrowing guide to the crippling persistence of one woman's memories." - NY Times

Previews Oct 24-25, Opening Oct 26 - Wed-Sat 7:30PM, Sat-Sun 2PM, Tue. Nov 6 and 13 7:30PM

For tickets call the Box Office at 760-296-2966 or click here

Angela Sauer (Actor 3) is thrilled to be returning to CVRep! Since appearing as Vanda in "Venus in Fur" last year, she has appearing on the television show "Get Shorty", and worked with Sacred Fools Theatre Company (The Art Couple), A Noise Within (Noises Off), and Theatre Dybbuk (Lost Tribes). She received a BA in Theatre from Saint Mary's College in Notre Dame, Indiana, where she won the Excellence in Theatre Award, and went on to earn an MFA in Acting from the prestigious Florida State University/Asolo Conservatory for Actor Training. Angela has also worked in regional theatres in Chicago, New York City, Indiana, and Florida. She has appeared on television in Get Shorty, Masters of Sex, The Daily Show, and Pan Am. Her work has screened at San Diego Comic Con, Newport Beach Film Festival, and HollyWeb. Angela is the reigning champion of LA's Manhattan Monologue Slam. Website: AngelaSauer.com -- Instagram: @AngelaSauer.

Dennis Gersten last appeared at Coachella Valley Repertory in THE CHOSEN. He is co-artistic director of Theatre Unlimited and runs T.U. Studios in the Noho Arts District in LA. Here he co-produced and directed INDULGENCES IN THE LOUISVILLE HAREM and the award-winning production of THE AUTHOR'S THUMB, his adaptation from the writings of Henry Fielding. With Theatre Unlimited he was seen in SHOE MAN and Move Over, Mrs. Markham. Other LA performances include: SANCTUARY with Company of Angels, MACBETH REVISITED with New American Theatre, THE HAIRY APE and TEMPEST REDUX with Odyssey Theatre, PERFECT TIMING with Theatre 40, THE MISSING PAGES OF Lewis Carroll with Boston Court, The Lady's Not For Burning and ACCOMPLICES with Fountain Theatre, COMPLEAT FEMALE STAGE BEAUTY and HENRY V with Crown City, DOUBLE FALSEHOOD with Coeurage Theatre, David and Goliath in America and DIRK with Road Theatre, SAN FRAN SCAPIN and DON JUAN: THE TRICKSTER OF SEVILLE with Andak Stage.

Dennis has directed with Interact Theatre, Hollywood Fringe Festival, Road Theatre, 2Cent Theatre, Vineyard Touring Opera, Crescenta Valley Arts, The Next Arena, AADA and Los Angeles Shakespeare. He is a founding member of Stagewrights, Inc. in NYC, where he wrote MINE, RHETORIC and PUPPY CHOW and directed and performed in original works. He received an MFA from CalArts where he wrote WILLIE SAID TO, which was produced at Playwrights Arena and Unity Players. He also wrote DESERT - MORNING, which was performed at Gene Dynarski Theatre; SHAMELA, an adaptation; and DIRTY SLUT. A founding member of the Michael Chekhov Studio, he is also a teaching artist at Inside Out Community Arts/P.S.Arts, and City Hearts.

Charles Pasternak: Regional: Twelfth Night at Alabama Shakespeare Festival; Romeo & Juliet, A Christmas Carol (two years), The Three Musketeers, The Mousetrap, and Two Gentlemen of Verona at Indiana Repertory Theatre; Peter and the Starcatcher, The Busybody, and Titus Andronicus at The Clarence Brown Theatre; The Winter's Tale, Antony and Cleopatra, Henry IV, and Henry V at Shakespeare Festival St. Louis; Macbeth at Sierra Repertory Theatre; Much Ado About Nothing at Shakespeare Theatre of New Jersey; Romeo and Juliet and The Three Musketeers at The Denver Center; The Merchant of Venice and Romeo and Juliet at The Shakespeare Center of Los Angeles; Creditors at Ensemble Theatre, Santa Barbara; A Shayna Maidel at International City Theatre, Long Beach; four seasons with Shakespeare Santa Cruz, among others. Artistic Director of the Porters of Hellsgate Theatre Company in Los Angeles, CA.

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