For 35 years, About...Productions has been advancing arts and social justice programming in our community by provoking new perspectives on history, humanity, and culture.

Join our efforts to IMPACT youth with creative engagement opportunities that IMPROVE their literacy, communication and collaboration skills, and CREATE platforms for our community artists to unearth inventive, engaging, and alternative L.A. stories.

Receive recognition and gifts
at different donor levels (see below).

SOCIAL JUSTICE RESIDENCY

Our intergenerational Young Theaterworks program is focused on social justice activism and systemic racism. This Fall, 9th grade students at Math, Science, and Technology Magnet Academy at Roosevelt High School will interview three elders and community leaders in social justice activism. Following the interviews, the students will collaboratively write plays based on these first-hand accounts and perform them on-site for their classmates. The pre-recorded performances will be shared with the public during Seeds of Resistance a live virtual program, including post-play discussion with the community leaders and elders.

Punk music finds life in one of L.A.’s oldest adobe homes in this original theaterwork. Set in the early 1980s in working-class Bell Gardens, three young punk musicians from disparate cultures squat in a vacant house. As the trio builds its punk songbook, and a life-size zine, they define their artistic identity and find their place in the musical and historic landscape of L.A.

Reimagined as a punk show, Adobe Punk: the concert will be performed at multiple venues in a club-like setting, with pre-show talks with local Los Angeles and punk music historians.

art of the monologue

Our newest workshop continues to serve underrepresented youth by encouraging self-expression. This workshop conducted by teaching artists designed to have the same racial, ethnic, and economic make-up as the youth guides the students through writing and performing transformative personal stories. These monologues will be featured in conjunction with our Adobe Punk: the concert programming.

youth theater summer intensive

Our six-week summer intensive in partnership with the Getty Museum and Plaza de la Raza returns for a second year, providing a select group of high school students the opportunity to collaboratively create original stories based on Greek, Roman and Mesoamerican mythology. These students from a variety of high schools in L.A. will then get to perform their work during free, public performances called Ancestral Connections.

ABOUT...PRODUCTIONS' ORIGINAL THEATERWORKS DIGITAL COLLECTION

Housed as part of the California State University, Northridge Library Digital Collection, our Original Theaterworks Collection provides public access to our 30+ years of distinctive storytelling. The collection will feature scripts, photos, videos, and other related items from our original theaterworks, including L.A. Real (1992, 1993, 2006), By the Hand of the Father (2000), They Shoot Mexicans, Don’t They? (2005, 2017), Bleeding Through (2009), Evangeline, the Queen of Make-Believe (2012, 2018-19), I: Witness (2017) and Adobe Punk (in development).

$50+ - TRANSFORM

TRANSFORM Art of the Monologue highest-risk students with the act of self-expression by supporting our Young Theaterworks staff. Receive an Adobe Punk swag item and be listed as a
donor on our website.

$250+ - ENLIGHTEN

ENLIGHTEN students and audiences in your community about L.A.’s buried histories and support the cast, crew, and educators of Adobe Punk: the concert. Receive all items previously described, plus one additional ticket to Adobe Punk: the concert (for total of 2 tickets), a shout-out on our email newsletter, and be listed as a vital donor on our website.

$100+ - UPLIFT

UPLIFT our community with public access to our Original Theaterworks Digital Collection’s 30+ years of alternative storytelling by supporting our Collection staff and community outreach. Receive all items previously described, plus an additional Adobe Punk: the concert ticket, and be listed
as a key booster on our website.

$500+ - EMPOWER

EMPOWER public high school youth with our 10-week intergenerational Social Justice Residency by supporting our Young Theaterworks staff. Receive all items previously described, plus access to complimentary events hosted by About Productions , and be listed as a vital sponsor on our website.