ATTENTION!

CAMP LOGAN

WRITTEN BY CELESTE BEDFORD WALKER

OPENING WEEKEND IS

HERE

In honor of the Opening Weekend for Camp Logan on April 28th & 29th and running though May 27th, the Robey Blog is featuring one character and actor every week as we count down to the opening weekend for Camp Logan. This "sound-off" will serve as a brief introduction, a kind of insight into the life of the soldier, written from the character's point of view by the actor embodying him in this production.

This week's Sound- Off is from Sgt McKinney:

Lee Stansberry (Sgt. McKinney) is a veteran stage actor of over 25 years performing in the U.S. and abroad. Some of his works include Walter Lee in A Raisin in the Sun, Peterson in A Soldiers Play, Ice in Short Eyes, Val in Split Second, all of which garnered him Best actor awards for the theatre. He portrayed Knobby Coles in Get Ready and Sterling in Two Trains Running, Nolan in Black Eagles, all in the Ensemble Theatre in Houston, Texas. Lee has performed in London, England at The Shaw Theatre and The Hackney Empire performing in the national touring company of The Diary of Blackmen as The Player. The play in 1987 won the NAACP Theatre Award for Best Play.
Lee just recently returned from Houston, where he played Doub in Jitney, and was last seen in Los Angeles as Philmore, in Jitney at the Lilliian Theatre, and at Theater Theater as Orville in Daddy’s Dying, Who’s Got the Will? Lee was also a cast member of 1995 Camp Logan cast when it won the NAACP Theatre Award playing the character of Gweenly Brown in that production.
Lee has a B.A. degree in theatre from Prairie View A&M University and is also a substitute teacher in the LAUSD.

Camp Logan is directed by Alex Morris and is a production collaboration with three production companies: Robey Theatre Company, Sparkling City Entertainment, and Juvee Productions.
Camp Logan runs April 28th - May 27th and will be held at the:
Los Angeles Theatre Center
514 S. Spring St.
Los Angeles, CA 90013
Ticket Pricing
General Admission: $30
Student: $20
Senior: $20
Veterans: $20
Groups of 10 or more: $20 each

ATTENTION!

CAMP LOGAN

WRITTEN BY CELESTE BEDFORD WALKER

OPENING WEEKEND IS

APRIL 28TH & 29TH

In honor of the Opening Weekend for Camp Logan on April 28th & 29th and running though May 27th, the Robey Blog is featuring one character and actor every week as we count down to the opening weekend for Camp Logan. This "sound-off" will serve as a brief introduction, a kind of insight into the life of the soldier, written from the character's point of view by the actor embodying him in this production.

This week's Sound- Off is from Captain Zuelke:

In Winter 2012 Jacob Sidney played Dr. Khobotov in Theatre Movement Bazaar’s THE TREATMENT, an original adaptation of Chekhov’s Ward 6 co-produced with the Theatre @ Boston Court. Previously he played Jekyll/Hyde in TMB’s MODEL BEHAVIOR, and also appeared in their filmed ensemble for MONSTER OF HAPPINESS. In 2011 Jacob Sidney played Ty Cobb in HONUS & ME for director Abigail Deser at the MainStreet Theatre Company in Rancho Cucamonga, as well as appearing in Padraic Duffy’s PUZZLER at Sacred Fools. In musical pursuits he sang and performed onstage with legendary band Sparks in their one-night performance of THE SEDUCTION OF INGMAR BERGMAN at the Ford Amphitheater in Los Angeles, as well as launching holiday vocal group THE SLEIGH BELLES with Crystal Keith, Richard Levinson, and Vanessa Stewart.
Previously Jacob played Nicholas in THE RECKONING for the Robey, and Caliban in THE TEMPEST for Action! He also played Horatio in HAMLET at Theatre 150 in Ojai CA for director Jessica Kubzansky, and Guildenstern in Michael Michetti’s HAMLET at A Noise Within. He spent 2006-7 playing Patrick (“a soulful skinhead with a gorgeous singing voice” – nytheatre.com) in the contemporary Gilbert & Sullivan-style operetta THE BEASTLY BOMBING (over 70 performances in LA and NY, and LA Weekly’s Musical of the Year 2006). Additional LA theatre includes A SWEET DEAL, his own full-length solo show; as well as BEATRICE, the title role of PEER GYNT, DUBYA 2004, DUBYA 2000, CRAZYFACE, and Padraic Duffy’s TELL THE BEES and BEAVERQUEST!
Onstage in Seattle (his home town) he appeared in THE DUCHESS OF MALFI (as Ferdinand); SAINT JOAN and RELATIVE VALUES with Greek Active; A MIDSUMMER NIGHT'S DREAM (Lysander) with Wooden O; and several of the original works of director Derek Horton (CAT-LIKE TREAD, PIMPIN). Sidney's additional plays include BENT (Horst) and THE NORMAL HEART (Felix) in Portland, Oregon; and A CHORUS LINE (Paul), THE GRAPES OF WRATH (Tom Joad), WEST SIDE STORY (Riff), and LA BOH»ME (singing Schaunard) in Bellingham, Washington.
Jacob sings (as a classically trained baritone fluent in Big Band and Rockabilly), writes (prose and dialogue, fiction and non-), composes music, arranges choral parts, and directs theatre and choral groups. He’s a regular performer in the Wig Out! cabaret; and also occasionally analyzes and helps to develop/produce new theatre scripts, the result of a two-year stint as Literary Director for Circle X Theatre Co. of Hollywood.
A life-long fan of the Seattle Mariners, Sidney would like to be known as the Ichiro of theatre.

Camp Logan is directed by Alex Morris and is a production collaboration with three production companies: Robey Theatre Company, Sparkling City Entertainment, and Juvee Productions.
Camp Logan runs April 28th - May 27th and will be held at the:
Los Angeles Theatre Center
514 S. Spring St.
Los Angeles, CA 90013

Ticket Pricing
Opening Night and Reception Ticket, April 28th: $50
Preview Performances, April 26th and 27th at 8pm: $15
General Admission: $30
Student: $20
Senior: $20
Veterans: $20
Groups of 10 or more: $20 each

ATTENTION!

CAMP LOGAN

WRITTEN BY CELESTE BEDFORD WALKER

OPENING WEEKEND IS

APRIL 28TH & 29TH

In honor of the Opening Weekend for Camp Logan on April 28th & 29th and running though May 27th, the Robey Blog is featuring one character and actor every week as we count down to the opening weekend for Camp Logan. This "sound-off" will serve as a brief introduction, a kind of insight into the life of the soldier, written from the character's point of view by the actor embodying him in this production.

This week's Sound-Off is from the brother of Private First Class Jacques Honore "Bugaloosa":

Jacques "Bugaloosa" Honore

Dorian Christian Baucum (Jacques “Bugaloosa” Honore) is a television, film and theatre actor currently based in Los Angeles. Born in Washington, D.C., Dorian got his first break into acting in the professional theatre playing Henson in a production of Charles Fuller's Pulitzer Prize winning work A Soldier’s Play. But, it was working as an understudy to the Tony Award winning actor Ruben Santiago-Hudson on August Wilson's Gem of the Ocean before it when to Broadway that made him want to take his acting career to another level. Working on Wilson's production, he was able to interact with and watch critically acclaimed T.V. and film actors who'd cut their teeth in the American Theatre, like Phylicia Rashad, Lisa Gay Hamilton and Anthony Chisholm, work their chops under the direction of renowned Broadway Director, Kenny Leon.
Within two years of graduating from the University of California, San Diego with an MFA in Acting, he guest starred on CSI: Las Vegas and played Max Gonzalez, a veteran of the War in Iraq suffering from amnesia and post-traumatic stress disorder over a four episode arc on the final season of ER.
His regional theatre credits include: A Soldier's Play, Blue/Orange, Yellowman, Ceremonies in Dark Old Men, Blues for an Alabama Sky, Spell #7, and Raisin, a musical adaptation of Lorraine Hansberry’s 1959 play, A Raisin in the Sun. His classical theatre credits include: Measure for Measure, Twelfth Night, Julius Caesar, The Two Gentlemen of Verona, and The Deception, a play based on Pierre Marivaux's La Fausse Suivante. He has appeared in two Robey Theatre Company productions: The Reckoning and Pity the Proud Ones.

A SPECIAL NOTE FROM DORIAN ON PLAYING BUGALOOSA:
Dorian says, “It is such a great experience working with this cast and crew on Camp Logan. My hat goes off to Celeste Bedford Walker for putting this story onto paper so brilliantly. Bringing black history to the stage is right in alignment with one of the reasons I got into theatre. I want to bring stories of people of color to light. I feel that there are so many stories to be told and so many lessons the world can learn from our rich experience. Jacques “Bugaloosa” Honore is a great character to take on, because of my love for music, my curiosity about Louisiana Creole culture and the challenge of playing someone that has survived such a traumatic experience in his life (an experience revealed in the play).
Bugaloosa is a musician, a mystic (the Virgin Mary is his saving grace), an alcoholic, an honorable soldier and a colored man born in a country that places little if any value at all on his humanity and his manhood. He is a part of a courageous brotherhood of soldiers-Buffalo Soldiers-working to take their place as men. I do not take the mission of bringing him to the stage lightly. It is a gift to be able to learn from him and from all the men that we as actors are working to represent in this production. ”

Hail Mary
Hail, Mary, full of grace,
the Lord is with thee;
blessed art thou among women,
and blessed is the fruit of thy womb, Jesus.
Holy Mary, Mother of God,
pray for us sinners,
now and at the hour of our death.
Amen.







Dorian has been working with the MUSIC DIRECTOR for CAMP LOGAN and horn player MIKE DAVIS to learn how to play the coronet for the show, here is the fingering for some of the songs.


Camp Logan is directed by Alex Morris and is a production collaboration with three production companies: Robey Theatre Company, Sparkling City Entertainment, and Juvee Productions.
Camp Logan runs April 28th - May 27th and will be held at the:
Los Angeles Theatre Center
514 S. Spring St.
Los Angeles, CA 90013

Ticket Pricing
Opening Night and Reception Ticket, April 28th: $50
Preview Performances, April 26th and 27th at 8pm: $15
General Admission: $30
Student: $20
Senior: $20
Veterans: $20
Groups of 10 or more: $20 each



ATTENTION!

CAMP LOGAN

WRITTEN BY CELESTE BEDFORD WALKER

OPENING WEEKEND IS

APRIL 28TH & 29TH

In honor of the Opening Weekend for Camp Logan on April 28th & 29th and running though May 27th, the Robey Blog is featuring one character and actor every week as we count down to the opening weekend for Camp Logan. This "sound-off" will serve as a brief introduction, a kind of insight into the life of the soldier, written from the character's point of view by the actor embodying him in this production.

This week's Sound-Off is from Private First Class Charles Hardin:

Kaylon Hunt is an actor and filmmaker born and raised in Port Arthur, Texas. He was considered a late talker growing up, and viewed as overly shy by his elders and peers. From kindergarten through high school, Hunt excelled academically and graduated in the top of his class. He was voted "Mr. Quiet" by his peers.
Hunt briefly studied mathematics before entering University of Southern California's prestigious film school where he produced various projects, including Turbo (2009), which won numerous awards including an Emmy Foundation's College Television Award. His next project, Hero Story (http://www.herostoryfilm.com/) will be released in April.
As an actor, Hunt is a trained student of Beverly Hills Playhouse and has also studied under Ben Guillory of the Robey Theatre Company.

Camp Logan is directed by Alex Morris and is a production collaboration with three production companies: Robey Theatre Company, Sparkling City Entertainment, and Juvee Productions.
Camp Logan runs April 28th - May 27th and will be held at the:
Los Angeles Theatre Center
514 S. Spring St.
Los Angeles, CA 90013

ATTENTION!

CAMP LOGAN

WRITTEN BY CELESTE BEDFORD WALKER

OPENING WEEKEND IS

APRIL 28TH & 29TH

In honor of the Opening Weekend for Camp Logan on April 28th & 29th and running though May 27th, the Robey Blog is featuring one character and actor every week as we count down to the opening weekend for Camp Logan. This "sound-off" will serve as a brief introduction, a kind of insight into the life of the soldier, written from the character's point of view by the actor embodying him in this production.

This week's Sound- Off is from Private First Class Gweely Brown:



Sammie is a director, actor, stage manager, lighting designer and producer. He has a B.S. in Computer Science from DePaul University.

The Beverly Hills-Hollywood NAACP awarded him 2010 Best Supporting Male Actor, and the 2011 NAACP Theatre Award for Best Lighting Design.
Some of his stage credits include The Blacks, Salome, Sisterella, and One Woman Two Lives. Some of his TV and film credits include “Judging Amy”, “Ask Harriet” “Diagnosis Murder”, “Danger in Paradise and Soulmates.
Sammie has stage managed and done the lighting for one person shows for: Emmy Award Winning Actor, Glynn Turman's "Movin' Man"; Loretta Devine's, "Pieces of Me"; Kim Wayans’, "A Handsome Woman Retreats"; Ella Joyce’s "A Rose Among Thorns"; and Helie Lee's, "Macho Like Me". Sammie also directed Macho Man Like Me, which received an LA Weekly Theatre nomination for Best One Person Show."
Sammie also co-produces, stage manages, and designs the lights for Giving Back Corporations Annual Toast/Roast. A fundraiser to help provide book scholarships for high school seniors entering their freshman year in college while honoring living legends who paved the way for our youth.
Prior to his career in entertainment, Sammie spent more than 11 years in corporate America as a software engineer for General Motors - Electronic Data Systems and Northrop Grumman.

Camp Logan is directed by Alex Morris and is a production collaboration with three production companies: Robey Theatre Company, Sparkling City Entertainment, and Juvee Productions.
Camp Logan runs April 28th - May 27th and will be held at the:
Los Angeles Theatre Center
514 S. Spring St.
Los Angeles, CA 90013

ATTENTION!
CAMP LOGAN

WRITTEN BY CELESTE BEDFORD WALKER

OPENING WEEKEND IS
APRIL 28TH & 29TH

In honor of the Opening Weekend for Camp Logan on April 28th & 29th and running though May 27th, the Robey Blog is featuring one character and actor every week as we count down to the opening weekend for Camp Logan. This "sound-off" will serve as a brief introduction, a kind of insight into the life of the soldier, written from the character's point of view by the actor embodying him in this production.

This week's Sound-Off is from Corporal Robert Franciscus:

 
 
 
       

Dwain A. Perry (Robert Franciscus) is happy to work once again with Robey Theatre Company. Dwain was last seen in the Robey Theatre Company’s production of BRONZEVILLE, by Timothy Toyama and Aaron Woolfolk, that traveled to Manzanar for a special week of performances. Other productions with Robey include Melvin Ishmael Johnson's The Emperors Last Performance directed by Ben Guillory and The Last Season by Chirstopher Moore, directed by Chuck Smith. Most recently he was the director of Transitions by Kellie Roberts, which was selected for the National Black Theatre Festival in North Carolina and also won a NAACP Award for Best Ensemble. Other directing credits include The River Niger, by Joseph A. Walker and Permanent Collection, by Thomas Gibbons, that was co-directed with Harry Lennix for Robey and Greenway Court Theatre. This production was moved, by the request of Michael Ritchie of the Center Theatre Group, to the Kirk Douglas Theatre were it was nominated for an LA WEEKLY AWARD for Best Revival.

Camp Logan is directed by Alex Morris and is a production collaboration with three production companies: Robey Theatre Company, Sparkling City Entertainment, and Juvee Productions.

Camp Logan runs April 28th - May 27th and will be held at the:
Los Angeles Theatre Center
514 S. Spring St.
Los Angeles, CA 90013

ATTENTION!

CAMP LOGAN

WRITTEN BY CELESTE BEDFORD WALKER

OPENING WEEKEND IS

APRIL 28TH & 29TH

In honor of the Opening Weekend for Camp Logan on April 28th & 29th and running though May 27th, the Robey Blog is featuring one character and actor every week as we count down to the opening weekend for Camp Logan. This "sound-off" will serve as a brief introduction, a kind of insight into the life of the soldier, written from the character's point of view by the actor embodying him in this production.

This week's Sound-Off is from Private First Class Joseph Moses:





Bill Lee Brown (Joe Moses). Bill’s from Baltimore, MD, and loves to move the pieces on the chessboard. His moves on the theatre boards include: August Wilson’s “Jitney” (Winner - Best Ensemble - L.A. Stage Alliance Ovation Awards & Winner - Best Ensemble - N.A.A.C.P. Theatre Awards) and “Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom” (Winner - Best Ensemble L.A. Weekly Theatre Awards & Nomination - Best Ensemble - 2004 L.A. Stage Alliance Ovation Awards); David E. Talbert’s “He Say, She Say…But What does God Say”; Kevin Arkadie’s “Up The Mountain”; Michael Ajakwe’s “Happy Anniversary, Punk!” “If You Don’t Believe: A Love Story”, and “Body Language”; Kosmond Russell’s “The Dealership”, “The Marriage” and Kosmond Russell’s production of Judi Ann Mason’s “Eddie Lee Baker Is Dead”; Christina Harley’s “The Dreamers”; Javon Johnson’s “Cryin’ Shame”; and T. Faye Griffin’s “Spook Night”. Bill’s film credits include the recently released: “Home Invasion” (on Lifetime – March 17th & 18th); “Remarkable Power”; “Statistics”; “Hidden Blessings”; and “The Obama Effect” directed by Charles S. Dutton. His TV credits include: “Southland”; “Criminal Minds”; “Law and Order: Los Angeles”; “Without A Trace”; “The Game”; “Scrubs”; “Cougar Town”; “General Hospital”; and “The Young and the Restless”. Bill is currently recurring in AMC’s “Writer’s Room” under the direction of the incomparable Anthony Veneziale. Bill gives thanks to this extraordinary production staff, cast and crew, and a special thanks to Alex Morris for this opportunity to work with him again. PEACE.

Camp Logan is directed by Alex Morris and is a production collaboration with three production companies: Robey Theatre Company, Sparkling City Entertainment, and Juvee Productions.
Camp Logan runs April 28th - May 27th and will be held at the:

Los Angeles Theatre Center
514 S. Spring St.
Los Angeles, CA 90013

Dear Friends,

Please join us at the Sankofa Art Walk in Leimert Park on Sunday , February 26, 2012 at 4pm for the reading of the Play  "WIDOW OF NICODEMUS" by Ghanaian, Amma Birago at the Production House 3349 West 43rd Place, Los Angeles, CA 90008.

 

Arts Culture Entertainment(ACE),  in conjunction with the Robey Theatre, Qumran Dramastage Melvin Ishmael Johnson's cooperative culture venture dedicated to cultivating and presenting work from and for recovering skid row artists and homeless veterans, Ben Caldwell at KAOS Networks and the Institute for Maximum Human Potential and  are hosting the reading of two of Amma's plays, February 26, 2012 in Leimert Park and Sunday March 4, 2012 at The Exchange in downtown Los Angeles

Amma is playwright from Ghana.  Her unique call & response Shakespeare inspired take on Black boxer Jack Johnson Widow of Nicodemus will be read Sunday Feb 26th, 2012 at The Production House 3349 West 43rd Place LA 90008 4 p.m.

Her dramatic reading Wrestling with the Gods about the Baroness Karen Blixen who the world knows as Isak Dinesen (Out of Africa & Babette's Feast) will be read Sunday, March 11th, 2011 at The Exchange 114 West 5th Street around the corner from the LATC (3 pm)

Both events are FREE.  RSVP's are appreciated.  However, seating is limited. Please e-mail acellcorp@gmail.com, or call 626-345-1864 to reserve a seat for the WIDOW OF NICODEMUS.

For WRESTLING WITH THE GODS, please use gotorobey@gmail.com with AMMA Reading in subject line & date you will attend!

We we believe it takes a Village to raise an artist. So from her "Village" in Ghana, to her new "VILLAGE" in Leimert Park, we are introducing her to Leimert Park and downtown Los Angeles. So , please join us in this introduction of Amma to LA.