Writer-performer Stacie Chaiken’s solo play The Dig, death, Genesis + the double helix, with original music composed and performed by Yuval Ron, set in the Middle East, received the 2017 Los Angeles Stage Raw Theatre Award for Solo Performance. Other plays include Looking for Louie, about immigrant family secrets, and What She Left, based on WWII Partisan narratives.
Current project: Sole Patrol (spring 2020) about Sister Sylvia Creswell. Recent work: Don't Flinch, exploring the history of the Main Street Boxing Gym; and Saint Vibiana Pray4US (2019), imploring the intervention of the patron saint of Los Angeles, about whom little is known. All three pieces are part of a large-scale, site-specific performance project about Downtown LA, called Yovaar:Porciuncula:Terrain Vague [working title]. The first two premiered at Son of Semele Ensemble's Solo Creation Festival, in 2018 and 2019, respectively. Sole Patrol will have a virtual premiere in May.
Devised-theatre work includes The Home Project: El Projecto Mi Tierra with immigrant residents of South LA (LA Department of Cultural Affairs Artist in Residence), and Getting Off the Fence, at Gateways Beit T’Shuvah, a residential treatment center for addicts. With Fringe Benefits: 90210 Goes Queer/Family Dinner, with LGBTQ youth; The Golden Rule, with interfaith youth; and Clothes Minded/The True Me, with Orthodox women in Crown Heights, Brooklyn.
2013 to 2014: International Creative Director of Kwibuka, the 20th commemoration of the 1994 genocide in Rwanda, designing and producing national and international events, including the Flame Tour, that comprised the commemoration.
Fulbright Senior Specialist in the field of Performance and Story; former performance faculty, University of Southern California School of Dramatic Arts.
Current: founder-facilitator of the Los Angeles-based What's the Story? workshop for writers and performers, making powerful stuff, based on personal story; Master Classes in performance and autobiographical story-making, all over the place. Story Consultant and workshop facilitator for New Ground: a Muslim-Jewish Partnership for Change, whose work is based on the premise that conflict faced head-on is an open door to building relationship.
Artist-Fellow of the 2018-2019 Helix Project; Los Angeles Department of Cultural Affairs Trailblazer, 2019 and 2020.
Current project: Sole Patrol (spring 2020) about Sister Sylvia Creswell. Recent work: Don't Flinch, exploring the history of the Main Street Boxing Gym; and Saint Vibiana Pray4US (2019), imploring the intervention of the patron saint of Los Angeles, about whom little is known. All three pieces are part of a large-scale, site-specific performance project about Downtown LA, called Yovaar:Porciuncula:Terrain Vague [working title]. The first two premiered at Son of Semele Ensemble's Solo Creation Festival, in 2018 and 2019, respectively. Sole Patrol will have a virtual premiere in May.
Devised-theatre work includes The Home Project: El Projecto Mi Tierra with immigrant residents of South LA (LA Department of Cultural Affairs Artist in Residence), and Getting Off the Fence, at Gateways Beit T’Shuvah, a residential treatment center for addicts. With Fringe Benefits: 90210 Goes Queer/Family Dinner, with LGBTQ youth; The Golden Rule, with interfaith youth; and Clothes Minded/The True Me, with Orthodox women in Crown Heights, Brooklyn.
2013 to 2014: International Creative Director of Kwibuka, the 20th commemoration of the 1994 genocide in Rwanda, designing and producing national and international events, including the Flame Tour, that comprised the commemoration.
Fulbright Senior Specialist in the field of Performance and Story; former performance faculty, University of Southern California School of Dramatic Arts.
Current: founder-facilitator of the Los Angeles-based What's the Story? workshop for writers and performers, making powerful stuff, based on personal story; Master Classes in performance and autobiographical story-making, all over the place. Story Consultant and workshop facilitator for New Ground: a Muslim-Jewish Partnership for Change, whose work is based on the premise that conflict faced head-on is an open door to building relationship.
Artist-Fellow of the 2018-2019 Helix Project; Los Angeles Department of Cultural Affairs Trailblazer, 2019 and 2020.
Grateful for the generous support of the Yiddishkayt Wallis Annenberg Helix Project, Center for Cultural Innovation, the Durfee Foundation; the Fulbright Foundation; University of Southern California Visions & Voices program; the California Arts Council; Los Angeles Department of Cultural Affairs; the USC Arts Initiative; Memorial Foundation for Jewish Culture; the Center for Jewish Culture and Creativity; and the Hebrew Union College Artist in Residency program.
Rae Luskin's November 2015 interview
for Creative Activists project.
for Creative Activists project.
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