About the Project
“Very Highly Recommended” (GIAONTHEMOVE.com)
“…Konstantulakis has honed her character portrayals to perfection.”
"… throughout the beautifully written, timed and performed, poetry, prose and movement interjections, Konstantulakis exquisitely hones in on the simplest of objectives. And Elina De Santos’ direction pulls out the best that this narrative has to offer.
Konstantulakis’ story is innocent and evocative, forthright and so completely relatable. And so it is no surprise that the sum of BECOMING APPARENT’s parts is as profound as it is plainly human.
We’re sincerely glad she made it." – GIAONTHEMOVE.com by Tracey Paleo
Production Photos: Zadran Wali
ABOUT THE SHOW
Vibrant, powerful, honest, raw – part Medea – part spilled milk. This one-woman show is a theatrical ascent into motherhood, memory, and the body—told through a fractured, dreamlike lens. It is a passionate modern-day myth about reclaiming oneself.
Olga Konstantulakis began writing Becoming Apparent over a decade ago, during her first pregnancy, as a way to process her fear of becoming a mother. What started as a creative exploration slowly developed into something larger and more universal; how trauma lives in the body and how the path toward wholeness is never linear. Becoming Apparent deliberately abandons an A-to-Z narrative; instead, it expands, contracts, poems surface like breath, scenes loop back on themselves until something finally breaks open.
Content Warning: Swearing and mature content.
Olga Konstantulakis
Olga is an actor, writer, and producer originally from Montreal. She last graced the stage as Veronica in God of Carnage, which was Thunderbird Garage Productions inaugural show here in LA. Other acting credits include Helvetica, Logan in The Thanksgiving Play, Heidi Schreck in What the Constitution Means to Me, and Sonia in Vanya and Sonia and Masha and Spike. She played Jan in the LA premiere of Fifty Words which she co-produced and Seta in Beast on the Moon (Ovation Recommended, Critic’s Pick Backstage and LA Weekly) which she also produced, Agnes in The Shadow Box, Leah in The Ride Down Mt. Morgan, Masha in Three Sisters or Perestroika, Beatrice in Modigliani and Mademoiselle “Y” in The Stronger, Collette in Four Dogs and a Bone, Bess in Bury the Dead, and Cecily in The Importance of Being Earnest. Olga has starred in many short films and almost 50 commercials. When she isn’t on stage, she is writing and playing her most important role in life – mother of two.
Elina de Santos
Directed Arthur Miller’s The Price, currently running at Pacific Resident Theatre, The Fantasticks at The Ruskin Group Theatre. World Premieres: Painted Ponies by Ian McRae, Hostage by Michelle Kohlos Brooks, Family Riots by Gideon Jeph Wabvuta, In the Valley of the Shadow by Katherine Cortez, Nice Things by Vince Melocchi, Dirty Filthy Love Story by Rob Mersola, Razorback by John Pollono, Church & State by Jason Odell Williams. American Premiere Daytona by Oliver Cotton. LA Premieres; Smart Love by Brian Letscher, Bhutan by Daisy Foote, Stop Kiss by Diana Son, Falling by Deanna Jent, New Jerusalem by David Ives, Albee’s A Delicate Balance and Mamet’s Speed the Plow. PRT, Odyssey, WCJT: Gidion’s Knot by Johnna Adams, Miller’s All My Sons, Death of a Salesman, & Broken Glass, Odets’ Rocket to the Moon, Awake & Sing!, & Williams’, Orpheus Descending -LADCC Direction. For the Chance Theater Seminar by Teresa Rebeck, Sweat by Lynn Nottage & Cry It Out by Molly Smith Metzler. For Ophelia’s Jump, Measure for Measure & Helvetica by Katie Coleman. Elina is the first female recipient of the LADCC Career Achievement in Directing Award and is the Founding Co-Artistic Director of Rogue Machine (2008-2024).
As a Producer: POCATELLO (Sam D Hunter) LA Premiere, DIRTY FILTHY LOVE STORY (Rob Mersola) World Premiere, DYING CITY (Christopher Shinn) LA Premiere, Ovation Award for Best Production (2013), THE NEW ELECTRIC BALLROOM (Enda Walsh) LA Premiere, VIVIEN (Rick Foster).
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