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​                the team

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written + performed by Stacie Chaiken
with original music, composed + performed by Yuval Ron
directed by Pamela Berlin • production design by Yael Pardess
music direction + sound design by Tim Labor
video and projection design by Dmitry Kmelnitsky
Premiered April 2019 at the UCLA Glorya Kaufman Theatre
Presented by the UCLA Y&S Nazarian Center for Israel Studies
the Dortort Center for Creativity in the Arts at UCLA Hillel
Stacie Chaiken

​Los Angeles-based writer-performer STACIE CHAIKEN is the creator of acclaimed solo plays LOOKING FOR LOUIE, about immigrant family secrets, and WHAT SHE LEFT, about a women fighter in the Polish forest during World War II.  As a performer, she has appeared in her own plays and plays written by other people on and off-Broadway, regionally, and in Los Angeles. FULL BIO

Pamela Berlin

​Composer-performer YUVAL RON is an internationally renowned and award-winning World Music artist, composer, and record producer. In addition to his leadership of The Yuval Ron Ensemble music and dance group, Ron has created scores for plays, television series and films,
including the Oscar-winning short
 West Bank Story.   WEBSITE

Pamela Berlin


​New York-based director PAMELA BERLIN has worked extensively in the development of new plays and is an acclaimed director in regional theatre and opera. New York directing credits include Steel Magnolias, which she developed, and which ran for three years off-Broadway.   ​FULL BIO

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Production designer YAEL PARDESS started her theatre design career in Israel where she designed sets and costumes for all the majors Israeli theatres and worked with leading directors. She recently worked with Placid Domingo ​on an Original Opera Dulce Rosa performed at the Broad Stage in Los Angeles. WEBSITE   FULL BIO

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​Music director and sound designer TIM LABOR is an award-winning composer and Professor in the Department of Media and Cultural Studies at the University of California, Riverside. He specializes in music composition and sound design for theater and film. His pre-recorded score for the 2016 premiere production of The DIG at LATC was nominated for a 2017 LA Stage Raw Theatre Award for Sound Design. 

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​Video and projection designer DMITRY KMELNITSKY is Professor of Multimedia Arts at Loyola Marymount University and the director of Lustre, an interdisciplinary art studio that develops concert visuals, music videos, animations, video art installations, and environmental projections. Kmelnitsky is also a composer/music producer, under the name “Kemell". WEBSITE   

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