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Laurie Woolery (Adapter and Director) is a director, playwright, educator, producer as well as the Director of Public Works at The Public Theater. She has worked at theaters across the country such as the Oregon Shakespeare Festival, Yale Repertory Theater, Goodman Theatre, Cornerstone Theater Company, South Coast Repertory, Mark Taper Forum, Denver Center, Los Angeles Philharmonic, Los Angeles Theatre Center, Inge Center for the Arts, Plaza de la Raza/RedCAT, Deaf-West Theatre, Sundance Playwrights Lab as well as the Sundance Children's Theater. Woolery has directed world premieres of plays by Tanya Saracho, Marisela Trevino Orta, Aditi Kapil, K.J. Sanchez, Julie Marie Myatt, Cody Henderson, and Allison Carey among others. Her solo play Salvadorian Moon/African Sky was commissioned by Cornerstone Theater Company for their citywide Festival of Faith. She is the former Associate Artistic Director of Cornerstone Theater Company and former Conservatory Director at South Coast Repertory. Laurie has taught at Princeton, NYU, Brown, USC, Cal Arts, Citrus College, California State University at Northridge and Los Angeles and serves on the Board of the Latino Producers Action Network. Woolery is a proud member of the Sol Project and recipient of the Fuller Road Fellowship for Female Directors of Color. -- Broadway World

“Every newspaper advocates for a community, as does TV news,” says Jose Luis Benavides, a journalism professor at California State University, Northridge, where he created a minor program in Spanish-language journalism. -- Columbia Journalism Review

The Los Angeles Daily News reported this announcement from the universityand writes that the name of the center might soon be changed, thanks to this great donation, to the Younes and Soraya Nazarian Center for the Performing Arts. -- Radio Farda (in Persian)

PHILIPPINE Madrigal Singers in Concert on Saturday, August 19, at 7 p.m. is the long-awaited return to Los Angeles of the world-renowned prize-winning choir, to be staged at the Plaza Del Sol Performance Hall at the Valley Performing Arts Center (VPAC) in at 18111 Nordhoff Street, Northridge, CA 91330. The theatre is part of California State University, Northridge, and tickets are $70, $55, and $40 online anytime at www.ticketmaster.com. Special student pricing is available only in-person at the VPAC box office, call or visit (818) 677-3000 11am-4pm Tuesday to Saturday. Tour information at www.musicartsevents.com. -- Asian Journal