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V-Day Laguna Beach 2004 presents
“The
Vagina Monologues”
as
part of the V-Day
Worldwide Campaign
Friday, February 27,
2004, 8pm
Cast:
Jonelle Allen, Lola Gillebaard, Connie
Merritt
Directed
by Anthony Barnao
Tickets
at Laguna Playhouse: 949-497-2787, #1
$75 – General tickets – open seating
credit cards accepted, tax exempt
a
limited number of VIP tickets – 949-497-1200
includes
reception, valet parking and preferred seating
Email:
Laguna Beach Woman'Club
this
will be a benefit production for
the Women's Resource Center and Human
Options
held
at 7°
[SEVEN DEGREES] Laguna Beach
891
Laguna Canyon Road
What
is V-Day? V-Day
is a global movement to stop violence against women and girls, a
fierce catalyst that promotes creative events to increase awareness, raise
money, and revitalize the spirit of existing anti-violence organizations. V-Day
generates broader attention for the fight to stop worldwide violence against
women and girls including rape, battery, incest, female genital mutilation
(FGM),
and sexual slavery. V-Day
Worldwide Homepage
Goal:
To raise awareness about violence against women and girls and raise funds for
our beneficiaries –
the Women’s Resource Center of Laguna Beach and
Human Options.
Women's
Resource Center
Our mission is to support all women seeking education, empowerment and
access to community resources. Service areas we offer, but not limited to:
Domestic Abuse, Legal Services, Employment Counseling, Substance Abuse Issues,
Children's Services, Health Issues and Temporary Housing. Email
Us
Human
Options
Our mission is to help battered women, their children and our community
break the cycle of domestic violence. We provide emergency shelter, 24-hour
hotline, counseling, legal advocacy, community education, batterer's
intervention, elder abuse prevention and family healing. more
about Human
Options
Jonelle Allen Jonelle Allen received a Tony® Award nomination for Best Actress for her performance in the Broadway musical, Two Gentleman of Verona. She has also won a “N.A.A.C.P. Image Award,” the "Drama Critics Award," "Drama Desk Award," "Theatre World Award." She was Pirate Jenny in the UCLA Reprise Series of The Three Penny Opera and won the “Drama Log Award” for her role in the Long Beach Civic Light Opera’s Man of La Mancha. You may remember her as Grace on Dr. Quinn Medicine Woman and Doreen in the NBC soap Generations, as well as guest starring roles on E.R., Strong Medicine, Cagney & Lacey, The Hitchhiker, Twice in a Lifetime, Brave New World and Hill Street Blues. more about Jonelle
Lola Gillebaard a Laguna Beach resident since 1976, is a transplanted steel magnolia native of Rocky Mount, North Carolina. She writes funny. She talks funny, and she’s a sit-down comedian. She’s a well-known professional speaker and has performed two one-woman shows: Life's Funny That Way and Growing Old Disgracefully. She’s a cancer survivor and has experienced 17 major surgeries, each of which she brushed off like just another mosquito bite. Her latest book was published in 2002: Laughter Made from Experience. Lola is the mother of 4 sons who still like her, and she has been married to the same man for over 48 years. At 72, she lives her life as if she were at a party, and she’s having the best time of all. more about Lola
Connie Merritt has been a Laguna Beach resident since 1969, arriving as young R.N. to work at South Coast Medical Center in the ICU and ER. She shed her scrubs to sell real estate in town for eleven years and then started her own speaking business, addressing the nation's top corporations and associations on how to help make life simpler and more fun. She's the author of Finding Love (Again!) The Dating Survival Manual for Women Over Thirty and The Taming Guidebook Series, contributor to Chocolate for a Woman's Soul and God’s Vitamin C for the Spirit of Women. Her next book, Before Getting Naked … Things You Need to Know Before Baring All promises to be funny, insightful and edgy. Connie shares her home with her husband, Lynn Hughes, and their fur children, Lucy and Buddy. more about Connie
Trained under Jose Quintero, Anthony Barnao's New York Credits include Come Back Little Sheba, Who's Afraid of Virginia Wolf? Lovers and Other Strangers and in Los Angeles The Blue Tomato (opening at the Stella Adler Theatre on April 1, 2004), Being of Sound Mind, The Last Chance Cafe, Clone, Peep Show, In the Bargain and Bullpen. As Artistic Director of the Blue Sphere Alliance in Los Angeles for the past seven years, Mr. Barnao directed the company's world premiere productions such as LA Sharp Skins, The Big Voice: God or Merman, Fat Chance (starring Jonelle Allen), Home Sweet Hell, as well as Forty Days and Forty Nights (made into a feature with Josh Hartnett). Mr. Barnao also directed west coast premiere productions of Tennesse Williams' Something Cloudy, Something Clear, Six by Tenn, Nagasaki Dust, Tissue, Neil Simon's Fools, along with the company's revivals of Being of Sound Mind, David and Lisa, Chamber Music, Indian Wants the Bronx, and the 30th anniversary production of Lovers and Other Strangers. Mr. Barnao is currently developing and directing an original one person musical In Search of a Blackbird starring Jonelle Allen based on the life of Florence Mills. Film directing credits include the feature Annie's Garden starring Yancy Butler and Grace Zabriskie and the comedy short The Home Branch starring Leslie Hope.