The Pasadena Playhouse Sheldon Epps, Artistic Director announced today that legendary director, choreographer and producer Kenny Ortega will be the 2015 Diversity Award Artistic Honoree, and Abel Ramirez, founder of Pasadena's El Portal Restaurant and business and cultural leader of the Pasadena community, will be the Community Honoree at the 9th Annual Pasadena Playhouse's Wells Fargo Theatrical Diversity Project fundraising benefit on Sunday, September 13, 2015, in honor of the opening of Josefina Lopez's Real Women Have Curves.
- 8/27/2015
- by BWW News Desk
- BroadwayWorld.com
The Pasadena Playhouse announced their 2015-2016 Season today, which includes the award-winning Real Women Have Curves by Josefina Lopez the World Premiere of the new musical Breaking Through with a book by Kirsten Guenther and Music and Lyrics by Cliff Downs and Katie Kahanovitz the return of Panto at The Playhouse with Lythgoe Family Productions' Peter Pan And Tinkerbell A Pirate Christmas, Trey Ellis and Ricardo Khan's Fly produced in association with Crossroads Theatre Company the West Coast Premiere of Harvey Fierstein's Casa Valentina and an Artistic Director's Choice to be announced at a later date.
- 4/2/2015
- by BWW News Desk
- BroadwayWorld.com
"Real Women Have Curves" playwright Josefina Lopez has signed with Intellectual Property Group.
In addition, Lopez has inked with Grand Central Publishing to pen a follow-up to her debut novel, "Hungry Woman in Paris," published last month.
Lopez has written many plays and co-wrote, with George Lavoo, the teleplay adaptation of "Curves," which HBO aired in 2002. The screenplay earned Lopez the Humanitas Prize, and the film won two awards that year at Sundance.
Lopez also is an activist who brings arts to Boyle Heights' minority and economically disadvantaged communities through Casa 0101, a theater she founded and is expanding.
Lopez remains repped by Marilyn Atlas Management.
In addition, Lopez has inked with Grand Central Publishing to pen a follow-up to her debut novel, "Hungry Woman in Paris," published last month.
Lopez has written many plays and co-wrote, with George Lavoo, the teleplay adaptation of "Curves," which HBO aired in 2002. The screenplay earned Lopez the Humanitas Prize, and the film won two awards that year at Sundance.
Lopez also is an activist who brings arts to Boyle Heights' minority and economically disadvantaged communities through Casa 0101, a theater she founded and is expanding.
Lopez remains repped by Marilyn Atlas Management.
- 4/27/2009
- by By Jay A. Fernandez
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
The battle over the launch of Nielsen Media Research's local People Meter service came to Los Angeles on Monday as activists held a news conference on the steps of City Hall to criticize Nielsen for what its detractors view as a systemic problem of undercounting minority television viewership. "If Nielsen gets its way, minority viewership could be dramatically undercounted, and the civil rights of Latinos and African Americans will be shortchanged with less programming, less economic opportunities and less influence in the media marketplace," said Alex Nogales, president of the National Hispanic Media Coalition. "This is an issue of civil rights for the entire entertainment industry." Joining Nogales at the morning news conference organized by the Don't Count Us Out coalition of advocacy groups and lawmakers were Rep. Hilda Solis, D-Los Angeles, Los Angeles City Council members Bernard Parks and Jan Perry and producers Moctesuma Esparza (Selena), Josefina Lopez (Real Women Have Curves) and Dennis Leoni (Showtime's Resurrection Blvd.).
- 5/11/2004
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
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