COMPANY OF ANGELS', ANGEL CITY IMPROV PREMIERES AT HOLLYWOOD FRINGE FESTIVAL 21 WITH "WELCOME TO THE VANTAGE POINT"

Welcome to the Vantage Point, presented by Company of Angels

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July 22, 2021
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LOS ANGELES, CA – Company of Angels (CoA) is excited to announce its participation in the 2021 Hollywood Fringe Festival with “Welcome to the Vantage Point,” an improvised family-friendly comedy show, inspired by three notable American playwrights. The livestream performances will be broadcast on Company of Angels’ YouTube channel and the in-person performance will occur at the Broadwater Theater. Tickets are available at the Hollywood Fringe Festival website with “pay-what-you-can” admission.

In “Welcome to the Vantage Point,” there are no scripts. Audiences will take a theatrical journey through a diverse and inclusive landscape of American theater with our ensemble as they use audience suggestions to improvise one singular, momentous event. Then, our cast will reinterpret the same story using the iconic theatrical styles of three preeminent American playwrights, Luis Alfaro, David Henry Hwang, and Lorraine Hansberry. The improv cast will explore the universal themes at the heart of each playwright’s work and amplify the BIPOC point-of-view through comedy storytelling.

“Welcome to the Vantage Point” features Eric Carthen, Corinne Chooey, Jason Eng, Fernando Fuenes, JJ Joo, Nakasha Norwood, and Heidi Shon.

Production staff for “Welcome to the Vantage Point” includes Director, Armando Molina, Director, Sean Michael Boozer, Dramaturges, Patrice Amon, Mildred Lewis, Jeff Liu, Technical Director, Thien Nguyen, and Musical Director, Allen H. Simpson.

“Welcome to the Vantage Point” is produced by Corinne Chooey

Company of Angels is one of 15 scholarship recipients that the Hollywood Fringe Festival committee believes will enrich audience experience and the quality of the HFF artistic offerings through the presentation of unique and underrepresented themes.

To view Welcome to the Vantage Point, go to companyofangels.org/vantagepoint

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About Company of Angels; Founded in 1959 by a group of television and film actors that included Richard Chamberlain, Leonard Nimoy, and Vic Morrow, Company of Angels is now the oldest professional theater in Los Angeles. As such it has a revised mission to provide a space for the voices and audiences neglected by the major regional theaters. Company of Angels now produces original work by professional theater artists who reflect the communities that make up the City of Los Angeles and engages residents from low-income communities including Boyle Heights and Skid Row to develop original theater pieces for performance. In this way CoA re-envisions theater to reflect and respond to the richness, diversity, and complexity that is Los Angeles, entertaining new audiences and serving the City of Angels. Since 1959 Company of Angels productions garnered over thirty Los Angeles Drama-Logue Awards including a special award for Continued Excellence, nine Back Stage West Garland Awards, eight Los Angeles Drama Critics Circle Awards (three nominations) including a special award for Distinguished Achievement, six LA Weekly Theatre Awards (three nominations), six NAACP Theatre Awards (four nominations), eleven LA Stage Alliance Ovation Awards, five Dimension Robby Awards nominations and seven Broadway World Los Angeles nominations. The Company aspires to share and give voice to the many stories that exist in our communities. For more information visit www.companyofangels.org

WHO:
• Directed by Armando Molina, Sean Michael Boozer
• Starring Eric Carthen, Corinne Chooey, Jason Eng, Fernando Fuenes, JJ Joo, Nakasha Norwood,and Heidi Shon
• Presented by Company of Angels

LIVESTREAM:
Performances August 7 – August 21
• Saturdays at 8 p.m.: Aug. 7, 14, 21
• Sundays at 2 p.m.: Aug. 8

WHERE (LIVESTREAM):
http://hff21.co/7053

IN PERSON:
Performance August 28
• Saturday, August 28 at 8 p.m.

WHERE (IN PERSON):
The Broadwater (Black Box), 6322 Santa Monica Blvd., LA, CA 9003

HOW:
• Go to http://hff21.co/7053
• Email us at [email protected]
• Visit us on facebook: facebook.com/companyofangels
• Follow us on twitter and instagram: @CoAngels

TICKET PRICE:
Pay-What-You-Can