EMPOWERING THEATRE ARTS PROFESSIONALS THROUGH PERFORMANCE, EDUCATION, NETWORKING, SERVICE, AND OUTREACH IN SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA

Dan Lauria

Nine O’clock Players Theatre for Children (ALSC)

The Writers Group

Sharon L. Graine

Robin Lithgow

Beverly Sanders

Estherleon Schwartz

Jenny Sullivan

Penelope Torribio

Gloria Watts

Lisa Wolpe

Rachael Worby

THE WRITERS GROUP - "We are writers, actors, editors and directors who want to share the creative process of bringing to life plays, screenplays, prose and poetry. We bring our material into the theater, pass it out to members, read it cold then comment on it.

Our efforts are to provide a safe place for our members to participate in the development process. We encourage our actors to trust themselves and make bold choices. We ask members to give positive notes so that the writer is invigorated and profits from the experience.

We encourage and support members participating in public performances of works-in-progress, staged readings, or full scale productions of completed works developed in the group. And we help each other to learn, publish, sell and produce through networking.

The group was founded by a few transplanted New York actors and writers in July of 1990. The profile of the group changes over the years as members come and go, and we have had a prolific amount of material work its way into the marketplace.

Our Purpose is to bring the writer’s material out of the closet and into the world so it can flourish and to give our actors a safe place to develop their skills."