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 World War Two partisan narratives.
From NoPassport Press: Looking for Louie, March 2021. The Dig... is forthcoming.
Current project: Terrain Vague [Empty Space], imagined as a performance-excavation of one square block in Downtown Los Angeles. Recent work: Don't Flinch, explores the history of the Main Street Boxing Gym; and Saint Vibiana Pray4US implores the intervention of the patron saint of Los Angeles, about whom almost nothing is known.
Writer-performer STACIE CHAIKEN’s solo plays include “The Dig, death, Genesis + the double helix” (with original music by Yuval Ron; 2017 Los Angeles Stage Raw Theatre Award); “What She Left;” and “Looking for Louie” (2021, NoPassport Press). Recent work: “Saint Vibiana, PRAY4US,” “Don’t Flinch !!,” and "On the Howl" are part of “Terrain Vague,” a performance excavation of one square block in Downtown LA.
Former performance faculty at the University of Southern California School of Dramatic Arts, Stacie is a Fulbright Senior Specialist in story and performance. Since 2001, she’s facilitated What’s the Story? LA, a workshop for writers and performers making compelling stuff based on personal material.
Stacie has served as story consultant for New Ground: a Muslim-Jewish Partnership for Change, and was the International Creative Director for Kwibuka20, the 20th commemoration of the Rwandan genocide. Her memoir “Remember Rwanda : a rainbow of broken glass, like teeth,” is forthcoming.
Stacie’s work has received support from Wallis Annenberg Helix Project; Center for Cultural Innovation; Durfee Foundation; Fulbright Foundation; USC Visions & Voices; California Arts Council; Los Angeles Department of Cultural Affairs; USC Arts Initiative; Memorial Foundation for Jewish Culture; Center for Jewish Culture and Creativity; Hebrew Union College Artist in Residency.
Artist-Fellow of the 2018-2019 Helix Project; Los Angeles Department of Cultural Affairs Trailblazer, 2019 and 2020.
From NoPassport Press: Looking for Louie, March 2021. The Dig... is forthcoming.
Current project: Terrain Vague [Empty Space], imagined as a performance-excavation of one square block in Downtown Los Angeles. Recent work: Don't Flinch, explores the history of the Main Street Boxing Gym; and Saint Vibiana Pray4US implores the intervention of the patron saint of Los Angeles, about whom almost nothing is known.
Writer-performer STACIE CHAIKEN’s solo plays include “The Dig, death, Genesis + the double helix” (with original music by Yuval Ron; 2017 Los Angeles Stage Raw Theatre Award); “What She Left;” and “Looking for Louie” (2021, NoPassport Press). Recent work: “Saint Vibiana, PRAY4US,” “Don’t Flinch !!,” and "On the Howl" are part of “Terrain Vague,” a performance excavation of one square block in Downtown LA.
Former performance faculty at the University of Southern California School of Dramatic Arts, Stacie is a Fulbright Senior Specialist in story and performance. Since 2001, she’s facilitated What’s the Story? LA, a workshop for writers and performers making compelling stuff based on personal material.
Stacie has served as story consultant for New Ground: a Muslim-Jewish Partnership for Change, and was the International Creative Director for Kwibuka20, the 20th commemoration of the Rwandan genocide. Her memoir “Remember Rwanda : a rainbow of broken glass, like teeth,” is forthcoming.
Stacie’s work has received support from Wallis Annenberg Helix Project; Center for Cultural Innovation; Durfee Foundation; Fulbright Foundation; USC Visions & Voices; California Arts Council; Los Angeles Department of Cultural Affairs; USC Arts Initiative; Memorial Foundation for Jewish Culture; Center for Jewish Culture and Creativity; Hebrew Union College Artist in Residency.
Artist-Fellow of the 2018-2019 Helix Project; Los Angeles Department of Cultural Affairs Trailblazer, 2019 and 2020.
I'm grateful for the generous support of Yiddishkayt's 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 Residence program.
