Dámaso Rodríguez

Join us for two twisted tales of invasion of privacy, plus Brazilian food and drinks!
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Click on the image to visit the Pure Shock Value website where you can watch the trailer and get details about the upcoming screenings at the Hollywood Fringe Festival.




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The Eccentricities of a Nightingale by Tennessee Williams, which I directed, closed last weekend after a great two-month run in rep at A Noise Within.  Set designer Joel Daavid took this beautiful shot of his set before the final performance.  The production has the distinction of being the final fully staged performance of a play by ANW at the old Masonic Temple in Glendale that the company called home for its 19 year history.  The set is a large-scale piece of assemblage art inspired by the...
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The Furious Films feature Pure Shock Value, which I directed, was selected as the "Centerpiece Feature" of the 2011 Hollywood Fringe Festival [Film].  The film will screen four times during the festival:


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I attended my first LoNyLa lab session today:  a very unique reading of Anne Garcia-Romero's outstanding new play, Paloma.  I say the reading was unique because the first half of the play was presented by a cast of three and director in New York and broadcast to "hubs" in London and L.A.  We then took a 10 minute break and the L.A. cast of three and director took over the second half of the play.  This was followed by a feedback session over Skype with the playwright in one location and LoNyL...
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NAKED AND FURIOUS CONTINUES!
Furious Theatre Company and Naked Angels, one of the leading off-Broadway theatre companies in New York, continue their creative development series called Mondays LA: Naked and Furious with their third reading of 2011, BOTTLED UP by Erica Lipez

Monday, March 28, 2011 at 8 PM
BOTTLED UP
A play by Erica Lipez
Directed by Damaso Rodriguez

Featuring:
Madeline Zima
Dana Kelly, Jr....

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NEW REVIEW GO THE ECCENTRICITIES OF A NIGHTINGALE

​Photo by Craig Schwartz

It's New Year's Eve in Tennessee Williams' drama, and Alma Winemiller is enchanted by the crisp snaps of "frosty branches crackin'," but she's so flushed with an inner flame she's shed jacket, scarf and gloves. Deborah Puette's Alma is burning, set alight by a firecracker the recently graduated doctor John Buchanan (Jason Dechert, in a role made for him) casually tosses at her during Glorious Hill, Mississipp...

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Naked Angels is collaborating with the Furious Theatre Company in Pasadena, CA to bring its unique 3-Step Formula for creative development to the West Coast and expand its programming to feature works for film and television in addition to the stage. Located on opposite sides of the country, Naked Angels and Furious Theatre Company share a mission to empower fresh voices through the development of provocative new work. Together the two companies will produce Mondays LA: Naked and Furious...

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