NPT MAKES LA PRODUCING DEBUT!

Founding Companie member Dawn Greendige (Post Mortem, Macbeth, Richard III, among other shows with NPT) relocated to L.A. a few years ago to pursue her acting career in a warmer climate. After several stage and television apprearances over those years, Dawn brought brought SONA TERA ROMAN HESS to the stage with NPTC serving as co-producer. Named for its four main characters, Sona Tera Roman Hess is the story of a family struggling to reconstruct itself in the aftermath of a strange infidelity. In the midst of this turmoil the gypsy circus arrives, bringing music, magic and predictions of the future. Sona Tera Roman Hess weaves together elements of magical realism and Greek tragedy as it explores a fantastic and deeply passionate world. In language that is in turn grandiose and quietly poetic, playwright Dennis Miles has redrawn archtypal characters desperately grasping for connection and purpose.

The production rann from August 15-September 21, 2008 at the Lounge Theatre, 6401 Santa Monica Blvd., Hollywood.

Dennis Miles (playwright) was born in 1952 in Santiago, Cuba and has lived in the US since 1967.  He spent three years in the US Army.  At age forty, he graduated from Mount Saint Mary's College, an all-girls school, with a degree in Liberal Arts.  For the last 25 years he has worked for an AIDS research project at UCLA.  He has written a novel The Companion.  His book of poetry Born in the Negative Tense was published by San Francisco's Vortex Press.  He has twice read his work on radio station KPFK.  In 1981, Without Reservations, a theater piece he co-authored, won a GAA award.  Under the direction of Diane Robinson, Los Angeles' Theater of NOTE has produced his plays The Guileless Side, Nikos, and Rosa Mundy.  Under the direction of Kiff Scholl, his plays Middle Savage, One David More, One David Less, For the Curious, Destronelli, The Fan Maroo and Free Fanjul have had productions in Los Angeles.  Under the direction of Jon Lawrence Rivera, von Lutz had an 11-week run in Los Angeles in the 2005-06 season.  Frontiers Magazine named von Lutz one of the best productions of 2005.  In 1999, he won an LA Weekly-ASK Theater Project's playwriting award for Middle Savage.  His plays Broadway and Eighth, A Beheading at Christ’s Lake, Everett Mann and his gay adaptation of Dangerous Liaisons have had staged readings.  Other theater works include Paltergeist, The Pyroclastic Flows, A Man’s Fortune is…, Tivoli Tsadik, Les Belles Dames sans Merci, Magnolia Envy, The Shrike and Temple Gadis.  He has written a memoir, called No Es Facil, of a trip to his homeland after a 34-year absence.  Last year he self-published some of his shorter works under the title of Complete Fragments.  He is currently working with Cathy Cahn and Alejandra Espasande on a film version of his play Matricia Has a Cow.

Kiff Scholl (Director) was listed as one of L.A.’s emerging and accomplished stage directors by LA Weekly's Steven Leigh Morris.  Kiff directed the multiple award-winning La Bête at Sacred Fools in 2006, garnering Back Stage West Garlands for Best Production and Best Director.  The Weekly nominated Scholl for Director of the Year for the award-winning, original musical A Mulholland Christmas Carol, by Bill Robens, which also toured the California coast.  Moreover, Scholl directed the GLAAD Award-nominated Act A Lady by Jordan Harrison, Ovation Award-winning The Fan Maroo, as well as the LA Weekly Award-winning Middle Savage, all by Miles at Theatre of NOTE.  Other favorites include this summer's This Contract Limits Our Liability-Read It! by Joshua Fardon, Miles' Destronelli, For the Curious, Robens' A Fish Without His Flippers (all at NOTE), The Poseidon Adventure, the Musical! (The Tamarind), and numerous one acts.  He is currently directing a feature, Scream of the Bikini, which he co-wrote with Robens.  Also an award-winning actor, Scholl has starred in Reno 911!, Untold Stories of the ER, Billy’s Hollywood Screen Kiss, several national commercials, and numerous plays across Los Angeles , NYC, London and Denmark.