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The Los Angeles Women's Theatre Festival
is proud to present
The 24th Annual Festival
Friday-Sunday, March 24- 26, 2017
The Electric Lodge
1416 Electric Avenue
Venice, CA 90219
The Los Angeles Women's Theatre Festival (LAWTF) marks 24 years of producing well over 500 extraordinary multicultural and multidisciplinary solo performers from around the globe.
Entertainment for the evening of
Saturday, March 25th, 2017, 8pm
will include:
Sloan Robinson
"Bananas! A Day in the Life of Josephine Baker"
Sloan Robinson
received her theatre training at the American Academy of Dramatic Arts with continued dance training at Alvin Ailey American Dance Theatre, NYC. She is an accomplished award winning actor, dancer, choreographer, playwright and producer with numerous television, film and stage credits.
Robinson is the recipient of the 2001 NAACP Theatre Award for Best Female Performer for her unforgettable portrayal of Dorothy Dandridge in the one woman tour-de-force "Yesterday Came Too Soon...The Dorothy Dandridge Story" by Jamal Williams at LATC, and co-produced by her company Do It Yourself Productions.
Robinson received the award again in 2004 for her autobiographical play, "It's a Good Thing I Knew How to Dance" at Stage 52, also co-produced by DIYP. She received the 2009 Award Nomination for her amazing portrayal of Josephine Baker in her play "BANANAS! A Day in the Life of Josephine Baker" at Vintage Hollywood, co-produced by Leroy Richardson, III, who won the Best Costumes Award for the show.
In 2010 she received the NAACP Award Nomination for her mesmerizing performance in the role of Jessalyn in "Tree" by Julie Herbert produced by Ensemble Studio Theatre at the Ford Theatre.
Robinson's play "A Woman in the Wild Wild West" set in the 1800's had a successful staged reading at Barbara Morrison Performing Arts Center in the 2016 Vision Theatre Play Reading Festival and will be produced later this year.
"It is an honor to evoke the spirit of La Baker: trailblazer, humanitarian, and international star in this fantastic Festival on this platform with so many wonderful female artists. Thank you to visionary Adilah Barnes!"-S.Robinson
To see
Sloan Robinson's energetic performance and other dynamic solo shows, please join us for the 24rd Annual Festival "
Around the World and Back" to be held at the
Electric Lodge in Venice.
For tickets and any additional information, please call LAWTF at
(818) 760-0408, visit our website at
www.lawtf.org or to purchase tickets click
here.
We hope to see you there!
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