CREATIVE TEAM

writer.......Thea Iberall

producer.......Thea Iberall

director.......Karen Aschenbach

Thea Iberall is a poet, playwright, and scientist. Her one-act play Primed for Love (written with her mother Helene) had a run at the Eclectic Company Theatre (North Hollywood). At the OUT Theatre in Long Beach, she had two other plays performed: Amacry! The Neuronic Musical (music by James Harding) and When I Was Called Tony. The Toledo Repertory Company has taken her children’s musical At Seven (music and lyrics by her sister Penni Rubin) to schools throughout the Toledo area. Vanillaville (music by Susan Chodakiewitz, lyrics by Erica Stux and Susan Chodakiewitz) was performed at The Colony Theatre. As a poet, she has been published in a variety of journals, including Southern California Anthology, Rattle, Spillway, Sunspinner, poeticdiversity, Mannequin Envy, New Works Review  hissquarterly, and ONTHEBUS. She is in Blue Arc West: An Anthology of California Poets (Tebot Bach) and Blood to Remember: American Poets on the Holocaust (Time Being Books). Her collection of her contextual poems, The Sanctuary of Artemis, is being published by Tebot Bach, www.tebotbach.org. Iberall represented Los Angeles at the 1998 National Poetry Slam Competition, and she is featured in the documentary “GV6 THE ODYSSEY: Poets, Passion & Poetry.” www.graffitiverite.com. She has a Master’s Degree in Writing (USC) and a Ph.D. in Computational Neuroscience (UMass). Her goal in life is to take Amacry! to New York for a long productive on or off-Broadway run. See www.theaiberall.com for more about Thea.

Karen Aschenbach: The Only Thing Greek About Me Is My Name is the second solo show Karen has directed for the Santa Monica Playhouse Solo Benefit Series.  Her first show, SERVED (gratuity NOT included) by Scott Jones, played twice in 2006 and has gone on to play at the Whitefire Theatre in Sherman Oaks, CA.  Karen brings years of directing, writing and producing experience for independent films, Fortune 500 corporations, commercials, educational and non-profit organizations.  Her own short film, Robber, has been around the world in festivals, showcases and aired on PBS stations across the U.S.  Karen’s first foray into directing solo performances was for the 2004 San Francisco Fringe Festival with Sabrina Stevenson’s Flower Murderer to rave SF Chronicle and Bay Guardian reviews.