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THE 2020 LA MAMA LOVE GLOBAL GALA<\/strong><\/h3>\n

Saturday, November 7, 2020 at 11AM (EST\/USA)<\/strong>\u00a0<\/strong><\/h3>\n

The 202\"\"<\/a>0 La MaMa Love Global Gala<\/strong> brings artists together from around the world to celebrate the spirit and community that have fueled our work for the past 58 years. This year\u2019s virtual gala marks the first time that our global community will be able to join from wherever they are on November 7, Ellen Stewart\u2019s birthday.<\/p>\n

Love is what La MaMa was founded on: love for creativity, love for humanity, and love for the earth. \u00adTogether, we will activate the intersectional, cross-cultural love that La MaMa\u2019s global community shares through art and imagine a world that is more open and loving.\u00a0Our 2020 Gala honors all of YOU who keep the love going<\/p>\n

Honorary Chairs: Amy Sedaris<\/strong> and Philip Glass
<\/strong>Honored Guest: Abigail E. Disney<\/strong>, Filmmaker and Activist
Hosted by: Bill Pullman <\/strong>and Tamara Hurwitz Pullman
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Playwrights in Nairobi will be with audience members in Krakow Actors in Seoul will join with theatre-lovers in Sao Paolo in our virtual space to celebrate our global history of revolution and social change. Love is what La MaMa was founded on: love for creativity, love for humanity, and love for the earth. \u00ad<\/p>\n

Together, we will activate the intersectional, cross-cultural love that La MaMa\u2019s global community shares through art, and imagine a world that is more open and loving.<\/p>\n

Performances by Philip Glass, Bobbi Jene Smith, Joshua William Gelb + Katie Rose McLaughlin, Aroji Otieno <\/strong>and more!<\/p>\n

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BOARD OF DIRECTORS<\/strong><\/span><\/h3>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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Frank Carucci,\u00a0<\/strong>President \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0Jeff Haley<\/strong>
Joan Rose, Vice\u00a0<\/strong>President \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0Matthew Hall<\/strong>
Donald Capoccia,\u00a0<\/strong>Treasurer \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0Jill Hanekamp<\/strong>
Richard Pinner,\u00a0<\/strong>Secretary \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 Steven B. Malkenson<\/strong>
Byung Koo Ahn \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0Wynn J. Salisch
Eugene Chai \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0Luis A. Ubi\u00f1as
Jane Friedman \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0Scott Wittman
Mary Fulham \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 Mia Yoo
Timothy W. Fulham \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0Joel Zwick<\/strong><\/p>\n

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CULTURAL AMBASSADORS<\/strong><\/span><\/h3>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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Lenerson Polonini\u00a0(Brazil)<\/strong>
Marisa Buffone\u00a0(Canada)<\/strong>
Annette Mikkelsen\u00a0(Denmark)<\/strong>
NC Heikin\u00a0(France)<\/strong>
Sofia Tsekoura\u00a0(Greece)<\/strong>
M.A. Whiteside\u00a0and\u00a0Arno Geels\u00a0(The Netherlands)<\/strong>
Saskia Mees\u00a0and\u00a0Aus Greidanus\u00a0(The Netherlands)<\/strong>
Poorna Swami\u00a0(India)<\/strong>
John Scott\u00a0(Ireland)<\/strong>
Dario D’Ambrosi\u00a0(Italy)<\/strong>
Filippo De Capitani\u00a0(Italy)<\/strong>
Adriana Garbagnati\u00a0(Italy)<\/strong>
Valeria Orani\u00a0(Italy)<\/strong>
Mitsunari Sakamoto (Japan)<\/strong>
Mitsuko Hisao\u00a0(Japan)<\/strong>
Makoto Inoue\u00a0(Japan)<\/strong>
Tatsumi Hatano\u00a0(Japan)<\/strong>
Aroji Otieno\u00a0(Kenya)<\/strong>
Sung Yeon Park\u00a0(Korea)<\/strong>
Dajung Shin\u00a0(Korea)<\/strong><\/h4>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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HOST COMMITTEE<\/strong><\/span><\/h3>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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Marina Arsenijevic<\/strong>\u00a0and\u00a0Donald Bronn<\/strong>
Winsome Brown\u00a0and\u00a0Claude Arpels, Jr.<\/strong>
Jane Comfort<\/strong>
John Fulham<\/strong>
Margaret Fulham<\/strong>
Robert Goldberg\/Yorke Construction Corporation<\/strong>
Cheryl Henson<\/strong>
Margaret Parker\u00a0<\/strong>
Michael Pressel\/RPO Inc.<\/strong>
Mary Parker and Damon Smith<\/strong>
Estelle Parsons\u00a0and\u00a0Peter Zimroth<\/strong>
Irene Ramp\u00a0<\/strong>
Gus Solomons Jr.<\/strong>
Arlene Sorkin<\/strong>
Brenda Walker\u00a0and\u00a0Peter Swords<\/strong><\/p>\n

RESIDENT ARTISTS\/CULTURAL AMBASSADORS<\/strong><\/span><\/h3>\n
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Murielle Borst-Tarrant (Kuna \/ Rappahannock Nations)<\/strong><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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Yoshiko Chuma<\/strong>
Rebekah Crisanta de Yberra<\/strong>
Shauna Davis<\/strong>
Jerome Ellis<\/strong>
Charlotte Lily Gaspard<\/strong><\/h5>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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Joshua William Gelb
John Maria Gutierrez
Justin Hicks
Paul Lazar
Tom Lee
Loco7 Dance Puppet Theatre
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Katie Rose McLaughlin
Leah Ogawa
Tarish Pipkins (Jeghetto)
Stacey Karen Robinson
Bobbi Jene Smith
Split Britches
Timothy White Eagle
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MEET OUR GUESTS<\/strong><\/span><\/h3>\n<\/div>\n
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\"\"Abigail E. Disney<\/strong> advocates for real changes to the way capitalism operates in today’s world. She has worked for thirty years with programs for low-income families, women’s rights, and global poverty. She is an Emmy-Winning Documentary Filmmaker and co-founder of Fork Films, a nonfiction media production company, which produces the weekly podcast \u201cAll Ears,\u201d where host Abigail Disney interviews bold, solutions-oriented thinkers from the front lines of America\u2019s urgent inequality and race crises. She is also the Chair and Co-Founder of Level Forward, a new breed storytelling company focused on systemic change through creative excellence, balancing financial and social returns. She also created the nonprofit Peace is Loud, which uses storytelling to advance social movements and the Daphne Foundation, which supports organizations working for a more equitable, fair and peaceful New York City.<\/p>\n

Philip Glass:<\/strong> Born in Baltimore, Maryland, Philip Glass is a graduate of the University of Chicago and the Juilliard School. In the early 1960s, Glass spent two years of intensive study in Paris with Nadia Boulanger and, while there, earned money by transcribing Ravi Shankar\u2019s Indian music into Western notation. By 1974, Glass had a number of innovative projects creating a large collection of new music for The Philip Glass Ensemble and for the Mabou Mines Theater Company. This period culminated in Music in Twelve Parts<\/em> and the landmark opera Einstein on the Beach<\/em>, for which he collaborated with Robert Wilson. Since Einstein<\/em>, Glass has expanded his repertoire to include music for opera, dance, theater, chamber ensemble, orchestra and film. His scores have received Academy Award nominations (Kundun<\/em>, The Hours<\/em>, Notes on a Scandal<\/em>) and a Golden Globe (The Truman Show<\/em>). In the past few years several new works were unveiled including an opera on the death of Walt Disney, The Perfect American<\/em> (co-commissioned by Teatro Real, Madrid and the English National Opera), a new touring production of Einstein<\/em>, the publication of Glass\u2019s memoir, Words Without Music<\/em>, by Liveright Books, and the premiere of the revised version of Glass\u2019 opera Appomattox<\/em>, in collaboration with librettist Christopher Hampton, by the Washington National Opera in November 2015. Glass celebrated his 80th birthday on January 31, 2017 with the world premiere of Symphony No. 11<\/em> at Carnegie Hall. His 80th birthday season featured programming around the globe, including the U.S. premieres of operas The Trial<\/em> and The Perfect American<\/em>, and world premieres of several new works, including Piano Concerto No. 3<\/em> and String Quartet No. 8<\/em>. In 2015, Glass received the U.S. National Medal of Arts and the 11th<\/sup> Glenn Gould Prize. He was honored with the Richard and Barbara Debs Composer\u2019s Chair from Carnegie Hall for the 2017-2018 season. Glass received the 41st<\/sup> Kennedy Center Honors in December 2018. In January 2019 the Los Angeles Philharmonic presented the world premiere of Glass\u2019 Symphony No. 12<\/em>, based on David Bowie\u2019s album Lodger<\/em> and a completion of three symphonies based on Bowie\u2019s Berlin Trilogy. Glass continues to perform solo piano and chamber music evenings with world renowned musicians, and regularly appears with the Philip Glass Ensemble.<\/p>\n

Amy Sedaris<\/strong> is an American actress, author, screenwriter and comedian. She is known for playing Jerri Blank in the hit Comedy Central series\u00a0Strangers with Candy, <\/em>and voicing Princess Carolyn on the Netflix animated series BoJack Horseman<\/em>. Her Emmy-nominated show At Home with Amy Sedaris <\/em>is in its third season on truTV. Sedaris has written a number of books, including I Like You: Hospitality Under the Influence<\/em>, Wigfield<\/em>and Simple Times: Crafts for Poor People<\/em>. She has also co-authored a number of plays with her brother David Sedaris under the name \u201cThe Talent Family.\u201d Shows by The Talent Family include Stump the Host<\/em>, Stitches<\/em>, The Little Frieda Mysteries, <\/em>and One Woman Shoe,<\/em> all of which premiered at La MaMa Experimental Theatre Club in the 1990s. Sedaris has also appeared in shows such as Monk, Sex in the City, Just Shoot Me!, <\/em>and My Name Is Earl. <\/em>Her film work includes Elf, School of Rock, Maid in Manhattan, <\/em>and Shrek the Third.<\/em><\/p>\n

Bold Theatre Kenya<\/span><\/strong> is a performance-art based initiative that promotes the preservation and development of Kenyan art as a tool of self-expression within our communities. We are involved in advocacy for social justice, education<\/span>,<\/span> awareness<\/span>,<\/span> and intercultural collaboration. We endeavor to create artistic experiences that synthesize our traditional and modern culture for the development of a unique Kenyan flavor. This allows citizens to build a connection to their history that perpetuates confidence and agency. Our work targets the local and international audience, providing exposure to authentic Kenyan culture while inspiring and challenging the audience to see the world from a different perspective. We also provide individual artists with training and apprenticeship that supports continuity and consistency in artistic development. In addition, we develop artistic tools that support community groups to solve local problems. This year our projects have included<\/span>: <\/span>The Bold Memoir Show, Bold Studio Workshops and the Solo Challenge (new actors compete in monologue, spoken word and storytelling categories)<\/span>. C<\/span>ontact us <\/span>at<\/span> boldtheatreke@gmail.com<\/span>.<\/span><\/p>\n

Murielle Borst-Tarrant<\/strong> (Kuna\/ Rappahannock Nations) is an author, playwright, director, producer, cultural artist, educator, and human rights activist. Murielle began working as an artist early in her life with Spiderwoman Theatre. After attending Long Island University, she began combining Native American myth and creation stories to help compose a subgenre of literature referred to as Indigenous Fantasy. She is the author of\u00a0the book series \u201cThe Star Medicine\u201d and short stories published by Miami University Press. She is the Artistic Director of Safe Harbor Indigenous Collective. She has recently produced, written and directed \u201cDon\u2019t Feed the Indians- A Divine Comedy Pageant!\u201d at La MaMa. She works on the deconstructing the pedagogy\u00a0of the arts within Native communities in the NYC education system.\u00a0Nominated for the Rockefeller grant in 2001, she won a Native Heart Award. She served as the Special Assistant to the North American Regional representative to the United Nations Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues. Global Indigenous Woman\u2019s Caucus Chair (North America) in 2013 to May of 2014.\u00a0She has spoken at the Indigenous Women\u2019s Symposium at Trent University, at the International Conference at the Muthesius Academy of Art in Kiel Germany, and the Norwegian Theater Academy.<\/p>\n

Shortly after the coronavirus pandemic closed all theaters in mid-March, Joshua William Gelb<\/strong> transformed a 2′ x 4′ x 8\u2019 closet inside his East Village apartment into a white-box theater. Along with Katie Rose McLaughlin, they set out to understand how artists can adapt to the digital form without sacrificing the integrity of the live event, as well as navigating how we can continue to responsibly collaborate while social distancing. Gelb\u2019s work has been presented by Abron\u2019s Art Center, Ars Nova, LMCC Process Space, New Ohio, Joe’s Pub, Polyphone Festival, and Target Margin is an associate artist with Sinking Ship, and teaches Theater Collaboration at Cooper Union. McLaughlin is the Associate Choreographer of Hadestown on Broadway, has been an artist-in-residence LMCC\u2019s Process Space, Dance Lab New York, Kaatsbaan International Dance Center and her work has been presented by The Chocolate Factory, the Invisible Dog Art Center, HERE Arts Center, newMoves Contemporary Dance Festival, and the International Festival of Art & Ideas.<\/p>\n

Tamara Hurwitz Pullman<\/span><\/strong> has been in the dance field for 30 plus years, as a performer, educator, choreographer, curator, community engager, dance dramaturge<\/span>,<\/span> and screendance<\/span>–<\/span>maker. <\/span>Recent work includes<\/span> <\/span>The Passing Project<\/span>:<\/span> <\/span>a<\/span> multidisciplinar<\/span>y performance pi<\/span>ece investigating themes of passing\/dying<\/span>, c<\/span>ommissioned by The Chandler Center for The <\/span>Performing Arts<\/span>; <\/span>The Good Water<\/span>: <\/span>a<\/span> <\/span>dance film centering on one woman’s struggle to <\/span>protect the earth’s most precious resource<\/span>; <\/span>The Wild Hunt<\/span>: a<\/span>n original play with songs<\/span> by Bill Pullman, developed by Denver’s Visionbox Studios and NY Stage and Film<\/span>;<\/span> <\/span>9<\/span>th<\/span> Rib<\/span>: <\/span>a<\/span>n intergeneration<\/span>al, site-specific dance\/theater\/music <\/span>c<\/span>ollaboration<\/span> <\/span>with <\/span>choreographer Keith Thompson<\/span>; <\/span>and <\/span>Healing Wars:<\/span> <\/span>a 6-time Helen Hayes <\/span>Award<\/span>–<\/span>nomin<\/span>ated<\/span> dance<\/span> <\/span>production originat<\/span>ed<\/span> <\/span>with the National Civil War Project. <\/span>Hurwitz P<\/span>ull<\/span>man<\/span> <\/span>has performed <\/span>and collaborated with<\/span> Jose Limon Dance Company, Rosanna Gamson World\/Wide, The Yard, Ann Vachon\/Dance Conduit, Pacific Dance Ensemble<\/span> <\/span>(Hae Kyung L<\/span>ee, Stephanie Gillilan<\/span>d)<\/span>, and<\/span> others. Sh<\/span>e has<\/span> been a choreographer, curator, educat<\/span>or, and dramaturg at the <\/span>Los Angeles Dance Resource Center’s Home Grown<\/span>, <\/span>The Latino Theater Company of Los Angeles<\/span>,<\/span> <\/span>the<\/span> Los Angeles Theater Center<\/span>, and <\/span>many other settings. <\/span>Community engagement w<\/span>ith people of all ages and abil<\/span>ities is an area of special interest.<\/span><\/p>\n

Tom Lee<\/strong>\u00a0is a director, designer and puppet artist. He began his career at New York\u2019s La MaMa Experimental Theater. His original puppet theater work includes Shank\u2019s Mare (La MaMa, international tours), Hoplite Diary (St. Ann\u2019s, La MaMa), Tomte (Chicago International Puppet Theater Festival), Odysseus and Ajax (La MaMa) and Ko\u2019olau (La MaMa\/Hawai\u2019i tour). He has performed as a puppeteer in WarHorse (Broadway), Madama Butterfly (Metropolitan Opera), Le Grand Macabre (NY Philharmonic), in addition to the work of Dan Hurlin, Basil Twist and Lee Breuer. Tom Lee is co-director of the Chicago Puppet Studio with Blair Thomas which recently designed The Steadfast Tin Soldier for Mary Zimmerman at Lookingglass Theater. Find out more at www.tomleeprojects.com<\/a><\/p>\n

Bill<\/span><\/strong> Pullman<\/strong> was born in Hornell, New York<\/span>.<\/span> <\/span>He<\/span> received his BA in Theatre from the State University of New York College at Oneonta, and his MFA in <\/span>Theat<\/span>re<\/span>\/Directing and an honorary P<\/span>h<\/span>D from<\/span> <\/span>University of Massachusetts at Amherst. <\/span>Upon mov<\/span>ing to New York City, <\/span>Pullman<\/span> worked with Kathy Bates in the acclaimed stage production o<\/span>f <\/span>Curse of the Starving Class.<\/span> However, it was his work in three strikingly diverse films that brought him <\/span>broader attention: <\/span>Ruthless People<\/span> with Danny DeVito and Bette Mi<\/span>d<\/span>l<\/span>er,<\/span> the Mel Brooks hit <\/span>Spaceballs<\/span> and the Oscar-nominated <\/span>The Accidental Tourist. <\/span>Pullman made his Broadway debut in 2002, creating the role of Martin in Edward Albee\u2019s Tony Award-winning <\/span>The Goat, or Who is <\/span>Sylvia?,<\/span><\/span>earning Drama Desk and Outer Critics Circle Award nominations. Other Broadway credits include David Mamet\u2019s <\/span>Oleanna<\/span> (2009) with Julia Stiles, and <\/span>The Other Place<\/span> with Laurie Metcalf (2013). <\/span>Focused more on neighborhoods than show business-based charities and societies, Pullman has defined himself by his work with his local communities. He works to bridge communities <\/span>in<\/span> Los Angeles through his board work with<\/span> Cornerstone Theater, and is an MS Society Ambassador. <\/span>Pullman continues to work with his neighbors who formed “Concerned Citizens Montana<\/span>,<\/span>” <\/span>a group that advocates for<\/span> the national need for a smart grid for energy transmission. He also supports local health services<\/span>, particularly <\/span>The Pullman Women’s Health and Birthing Center <\/span>(St. James Hospital, Hornell, NY). <\/span>Based in Los Angeles, New York City, and Western Montana, Pullman is married to dancer Tamara Hurwitz Pullman, and they have three children<\/span>:<\/span> daughter singer\/songwriter <\/span>Maesa<\/span> Rae and multi-talented sons Jack and <\/span>Lewis Pullman<\/span><\/a>, who is now also an actor.<\/span><\/p>\n

Bobbi Jene Smith<\/strong>\u00a0is an alumnus of The Julliard School, North Carolina School of the Arts, and the Royal Winnipeg Ballet School. She is a founding member of the American Modern Opera Company (AMOC), and a former member of Batsheva Dance Company under the artistic direction of Ohad Naharin. Her choreography has been presented by Batsheva Dance Company, La MaMa, Martha Graham Dance Company, PS122 COIL Festival, A.R.T., The Israel Museum, UNC Chapel Hill, and CORPUS of The Royal Danish Ballet, among others. Film work includes the choreography for Annihilation directed by Alex Garland, and choreographing and starring in Boaz Yakin\u2019s Aviva. She is the subject of Bobbi Jene, winner of the awards for Best Documentary, Best Cinematography, and Best Editing at the 2017 Tribeca Film Festival. She is the recipient of The Harkness Promise Award and was the Martha Duffy Resident Artist at Baryshnikov Art Center in 2019. She is part-time faculty at The Julliard School and is a guest teacher at NYU and UArts.<\/p>\n

Split Britches<\/strong>, founded in 1980, is the feminist performance duo of Peggy Shaw and Lois Weaver. Weaver is an artist, activist and Professor of Contemporary Performance at Queen Mary University of London. She is a 2014 Guggenheim Fellow and a Wellcome Trust Engaging Science Fellow for 2016-19. Shaw\u00a0is a performer, writer, producer and teacher of writing and performance. She is a 2019 Guggenheim Fellow, a 2016 USA Artist Fellow, and was the 2014 recipient of the Doris Duke Artist Award. The duo\u2019s shows at La MaMa include Unexploded Ordnances (UXO) <\/i>(2018), Ruff <\/i>(2014), Miss America <\/i>(2008), Dress Suits to Hire<\/i> (2005), Miss Risque<\/i> (2001), Salad of the Bad Caf\u00e9 <\/i>(2000), Faith and Dancing <\/i>(1997), Lust and Comfort <\/i>(1995), You\u2019re Just Like My Father <\/i>(1993), and Belle Reprieve <\/i>(1990).<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n

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