Pacific Stages Debut Readings at Douglas Street Salons April 26, 2009

PACIFIC STAGES
Exciting New South Bay Non-Profit Theater Company
Upcoming Performances Announced

In 2003 the idea for Pacific Stages, a 501c3 theatre was incorporated, and in the fall of 2004 with a pledge from Continental Development Corporation for the land to build a LORT theatre complex on the Rosecrans corridor in El Segundo as its lynchpin, Pacific Stages officially launched an initiative to build a world-class theatre company and a grass-roots audience development initiative. In the spring of 2005, Executive Director Jeryll W Adler invited Artistic Director Brendon Fox to partner in this vision. Beginning in living rooms and public venues throughout the South Bay cities of Los Angeles the vision grew. On March 15 Pacific Stages opened the doors to their interim black box theatre at 831 S Douglas Street, El Segundo, CA and continue their journey in anticipation of the land grant and the major capital campaign to follow.
Highlights of our journey thus far include:
• Incorporation and 510c3 status, effective April 2003.
• Established mission. “With the core belief that the arts have the power to strengthen community and enrich the human spirit, Pacific Stages is dedicated to our mission to produce, present and perform the early, new and lesser known works of the best American playwrights, and to nurture the next generation of the same. We are further dedicated to our mission to invigorate and elevate the appreciation for great dramatic literature and theatre through educational and community outreach programs here in the South Bay and the greater Los Angeles area, across the state of California, the nation and throughout the world.”
• Planned land donation from Continental Development Corporation of approximately 20-25,000 sq. ft. to be conveyed to Pacific Stages by 2016.
• Preliminary architectural design advanced for LORT [League of Residential Theatres] facility to house 400 seat main stage and 99 seat black box, by world renowned theatre architect John Sergio Fisher.
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• Artists Company of over eighty actors, directors, playwrights and producers of national and international stature. Notable among our membership are talents that can be seen in major motion pictures and on television, including Gregory Jbara, Dana Delany (Desperate Housewives), Chris Pine (Star Trek 2009), Sam Anderson, Jordan Baker, Kevin Kilner, John De Lancie, Stephen Wadsworth, Estelle Harris, Matt Letscher, Gabriel Olds, David Proval, Victor Rivers, Beth Henley, Salome Jens, Joe Spano, Stephen Wadsworth and Holland Taylor (Two and a Half Men).
• Artistic Director Brendon Fox, whose experience includes seven years as the Associate Artistic Director of San Diego’s Old Globe, and a current term of three plus years as Associate Producer of LATW.
• Executive Director Jeryll W. Adler, with over twenty years experience in theatre producing and entertainment marketing.
• Twenty Salons - an audience building initiative that invites the South Bay and extended community to experience staged readings in keeping with Pacific Stages artistic mission. Through these readings we have grown a mailing list of over one thousand qualified names since our premiere Salon in June 2005. These readings have included work with some of the top contemporary writing talent including Craig Wright, Dan O’Brien, Itamar Moses, Laura Shamas, Daisy Foote, Winnie Holzman & Paul Dooley, Rinne Groff and Beth Henley.
• Commencing with our first call for donations in September 2005, total cash donations raised of over $25,000. Representing approximately eighty individuals and our first corporate grant from IBM, these donations range in amount from $20 to $5000.
• A matching pledge of $25,000 per year from Continental Development Corporation towards rental obligations for an interim facility to establish our first roots and a home from which to build partnerships with private and corporate patrons.
• Pacific Stages is the first significant cultural institution in El Segundo, a city known more for its contribution to aerospace than the arts.

Jeryll W. Adler, Pacific Stages Executive Director, is available for interviews.
Please call for photographs.

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Debut Readings at the Douglas Street Salons

Staged readings presented by some of the finest talent working in the American theatre today.

SUNDAY, April 26, 2009

“Something Happened” by L Trey Wilson
Directed by L Trey Wilson
Cast to include Russell Hornsby

SUNDAY, May 3, 2009

“Light Sensitive” by Jim Geoghan
Directed by Robert Bailey
Cast to include David Proval and Geoffrey Wade

Future Dates: Sunday, May 24 – Sunday, June 7 – Sunday, June 14 - Saturday, May 9.

Sunday performances: Box Office opens at 2:30 p.m., 3 p.m. performance time.
Saturday performances: Box Office opens at 7 p.m., 7:30 p.m. performance time.

For reservations please e-mail [email protected] or call 310-375-2632.
Suggested $10 minimum donation per ticket
Pacific Stages is located at 831 S Douglas Street, El Segundo, CA 90245

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Pacific Stages will hold its first fundraiser on Sunday, May 17, 2009, 2 p.m.

A Matinee at the Villa
Palos Verdes Peninsula Private Home

Cocktail Reception and Silent Auction

A Performance of Pulitzer Prize Winner Tony Kushner’s
Reverse Transcription: Six Playwrights Bury a Seventh

$125 per single ticket, $200 per couple

VIP Patron tickets are $500 per person which includes a private luncheon prior to event.
For additional information please call 310-375-2632 or visit http://www.pacificstages.org/html/may_17_gala.html

Official Website: http://www.pacificstages.org