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Actor Tim Lounibos - Hopeful Opportunities Ahead for APA's in Hollywood Movies and Television

Posted by AC Team - on Tuesday, 08 October 2019

Actor Tim Lounibos - Hopeful Opportunities Ahead for APA's in Hollywood Movies and Television
October 8, 2019 Hollywood   Actor Tim Lounibos wrote on his Facebook page  about the positive changes he is currently experiencing in Hollywood. We caught up with him to share his thoughts with us. Asian Americans have historically found limited opportunities as actors in movies and television in Hollywood, but fortunately for Tim he had a great start as a busy actor in the 1990s, but then his career went off a cliff - temporarily.  We thank Tim for sharing his...

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Rona Par Directs Snows of Yesterday

Posted by AC Team on Thursday, 06 September 2007.

Snows of Yesterday (Neiges d'Antan) is directed by Rona Par and performed by award winning performers Yazmine Flemng and Elizabeth Ackerman. Don't Miss!

Neiges dAntan (Snows of Yesterday). A two-woman theater piece/cabaret- style entertainment.


Based on the songs of Kurt Weill. Elizabeth Ackerman, mezzo-soprano. Yazmine C. Fleming, pianist. Directed by Rona Par.
Produced by Ray Madden. Presented by hereandnow Theatre Company and Armory Center for the Arts

WHERE: Armory Northwest, 965 N. Fair Oaks Ave., Pasadena, CA 91103.

WHEN: September 14, 15, 16, 2007. Friday through Sunday at 8 p.m.

ADMISSION: $20. Students and seniors: $15.

RESERVATIONS: (626) 688-7372.

Filipina American Rona Par is directing Neiges dAntan (Snows of Yesterday), a two-woman theater piece featuring award-winning performer Yazmine Fleming (who is half Filipino) and Elizabeth Ackerman opening September 14 at Armory Northwest in Pasadena.

Par received her education at UC Irvine. She has worked since 1996 with hereandnow Theater Company as an actor and producer. Other companies she has worked with include Chromolume Theatre Company, Sisyphic Art Center, East West Players Asian Pacific Tales, Imagination Company and JimJam Players.

Neiges dAntan (Snows of Yesterday) steps beyond the boundaries of cabaret entertainment to become a theatre piece performed by two women. Through their portrayal of multiple and at times conflicting aspects of a single character, the two performers expose and rework the subtle power dynamics inherent in the singer-accompanist relationship. What emerges is unexpected, irreverent and playful. Songs to be performed include Lonely House, Surabaya Johnny, Ballad of the Soldiers Wife, and other songs from The Threepenny Opera.

Why Weill? Mezzo-soprano Elizabeth Ackerman was inspired by Weill at a young age when she heard Lotte Lenya sing Weills work: This was not opera---it was something completely different---where the emotion, the story, the theater were more relevant [than the voice].

Spoken word is minimal and the songs are everything in Neiges dAntan.

Ms. Ackerman, a graduate of UC Berkeley, has sung in Dido and Aeneas, Die Fledermaus and , for Contemporary Opera of Los Angeles,Cindy Lou. Also an actor, she appeared in Eight Simple Rooms at the Secret Rose Theater.

Award-winning pianist Yazmine C. Fleming, has performed at many venues in the area, including the Japan-America Theatre, the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, the Getty Center, and the San Gabriel Civic Light Opera. She received her Masters of Music Degree from Kent State University.