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ACTORS / SINGERS / DANCERS   (SAG or SAG eligible okay, non-Equity or expired Equity okay )  wanted to rehearse and perform in 50-seat outdoor summer repertory  in West Los Angeles.  Rehearsing afternoons, late evenings or weekends as arranged.  Opening early July.  Performing six weekends.  Salary:  40% of every ticket or program ad sold.  Follow these steps exactly:

 
1.  Read the call carefully.  Show it to your agent.  Be sure the area around the intersection of the 10 and 405 Freeways is easily accessible to you.
 
2. Acquire your agent's approval to commit to this summer rep..
 
3.  Duplicate this ad atop a blank page and sign that you'll hold to these terms, if you are cast.
 
4.  US Mail that signed statement, photo/resume and your direct contact information to the Producing Artistic Director,  The Venice Mootney Theatre:
 
Glenn Hopkins
2508 Stoner Avenue
Los Angeles, Ca 90064
 
5. No personal, messenger, or e-submissions.
 
6. You will be invited to an afternoon of group singing early in May as the first step in Casting.

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Glenn Hopkins, L.A. Red Carpet Award Winner, 2005


"Glenn Hopkins is an American Original .  Names like Johnny Appleseed,  Woody Guthrie,   Will Geer,  and Walt Whitman come to mind."             --Backstage West

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"A familiar figure on the Los Angles theatre scene,  Glenn Hopkins has written over twenty plays melodramatic and hilarious, brash and sensitive,  frustrating yet ultimately rewarding. Hopkins writes from the heart, exploring human verities as well as human foibles.  His integrity and purpose shine through"

---Drama-Logue

 

Hopkins' writing for the stage has been:

"outrageous...refreshing...intriguing...important...worthwhile."  ---The Daily Bruin

"infused with lyricimagery... billowing...lovely...fun"  ---The Hollywood Reporter

"gorged with ideas...admittedly wild...a literary volcano"  ---Cleve Herman,

KFWB

 

The Mootney Company in the Community

1976 Founded .  For The U.S. bicentennial:  Aint This It?
           a family is torn apart by the American Revolution

surrogates  (premier at Venice Methodist)
Our Mission Statement: "to shed light on the human condition"

1977 Emptiness (now called CIRCUS  SHRINK)
taped by UCLA Theta Committee under Shirley Clarke

1979 The waning Labor Movement is given a "banquet play"
DINOSAUR (also published by The  California. Theatre Council)

surrogates  David Hillbrand's U.C. Berkeley Production

ICA, London reading :: surrogates

Dramatist's Guild Grant

1980   N o t    J o b,  Chandler Hall,  Church in Ocean Park
L.A. torn by quakes; to argue with God is better than no relationship

1981 Charms  by Wayne Lindberg, Church in Ocean Park

1982, The Complex, Hollywood.  Inspired by "Radical Faeries"
The Adventures of Robin Hood Narrated by Quentin Crisp

1983,"Robin" again at Church in Ocean Park

1984 Geodome barnraising for the 300 block of Market Street and
surrogates

Residency,  McDaniel College's co-production :  C O L O N Y ;
for the (800-seat) Venice Pavilion Revitalization:
          the first lunar C O L O N Y remembers the mother planet

Jazz/Rally against Corporations Paying No Taxes

For The Committee to Monitor Poppers (banning the disco drug)
1986,   W H I T E    B R E A D    (three theatres,  8 months)
Draamalogue Award, Best  New Play

1987 LGBT March on Washington, Sylvan Theatre, Washington.Monument Grounds:
The Adventures of Robin Hood Narrated by Quentin Crisp

1989  Networking and Opening Circle for the Tongva Springs Community
University High School Campus

For Stoner Park Mural Refurbishment:
:The 60's // thesuffragette-teens, the 80's// the 20's;  homage to Jewish Progressives
Animal Husbandry 1917-1929

by permission of John Updike, for OPICA and MAHOOD senior centers
taped  for KPFK at The Ivar Theatre The Poorhouse Fair

Site-specific musical for the Uni/Tongva Springs (still opposed by LAUSD)
The Tears of Saint Monica

The World Health Organization Smallpox-shot scandal exposed in
all in the same boat !
Stoner Park; Uni. Community Adult School 1996-8

M E A T readings, Venice UMC,  Dramatists' Guild, NYC, Baltimore Thtr.Festival
Zionist genocide's and homophobia's Biblical roots
Premier run benefits affordable senior/homeless fam. housing, Santa Monica UMC :
M E A T, 1998-
via A&BB Foundation grant, 2003

Residency,  The Woodstock Guild  produces: Three Made Only of Clay

M A R K   AND   B  A R B A R A   F R O G
3 years in the making; First production, Masquer's Cabaret, 2003

MRS. ROOSEVELT, Three Made Only of Clay
Readings around the country benefit the Green Party campaigns, including in W.L.A.

MRS. ROOSEVELT  (in Czech)  Prague, 2004
In Spanish, Korean, English and Farsi simultaneously, gathering after for songs
Westside Community Adult School, 2005

Red Carpet Award and State Senate Commendation 2005
For outstanding contribution to theatre in California

Commissioned playlet for Christmas Eve, 2005
"Okay, Mary, Seriously.  Who's the father?"
Church in Ocean Park

and currently through stories and improvisation with Asians from all over L.A.
S o u t h    L a k e    G a r d e n
(first readings in early September)



Mark and Barbara  Frog

    music and book by Glenn Hopkins


"Wonderful...Delightful...Elegant"   --Backstage West
   "A Sergeant Pepper-style musical for all ages." 
                                                  --Venice Magazine
     "Fascinating...Exuberant...Great...Bravo!"  
                                   --NoHo/LA
  "profound...hilarious...a zany anthropomorphic revue." 
                                                    --Topanga Messenger