MARLAN
WARREN BIO
Marlan Warren is a
playwright and theater director/producer, and filmmaker living in Los Angeles.
Prior to writing, directing and producing, for 15 years, she performed in plays
in Boston, Canada, Chicago, Florida, San Diego, and Los Angeles. She began directing
at Pary Productions in the Theater Building in Chicago and Victory Gardens. In
San Diego, she directed Golden Trash Stamps at the Marquis Public Theatre’s
Gallery where it broke box office records. Marlan is a crew member (Publicity)
and conference panelist with the Los Angeles Women’s Theatre Festival, and on
the faculty of the Greater Los Angeles Writers Society. She was a Theater major
at Florida State University, and studied Directing at Victory Gardens in
Chicago. Her B.F.A. is in Screenwriting from USC. Her novel Roadmaps
for the Sexually Challenged: All’s Not Fair in Love or War is
available on Amazon
PLAYS:
HALLELUJAH WHIPLASH!: A women’s self-defense musical. Showcased as a staged reading at the Marquis Public Theatre in San Diego. (Lyrics and co-wrote the book with Lawrence Czoka who composed the music.)
BITS OF PARADISE: A Reader’s Theater play that adapts letters between women held behind the barbed wire of Japanese American Internment Camps and the Japanese American soldiers fighting in WWII. Produced at The Marsh Theater, San Francisco. Bits of Paradise places its footprint on the timeline of a much-needed theatrical examination of the Asian American journey –Asian Week Review. (Writer/Director/Producer/Actor)
BITS OF
PARADISE: KOCHIYAMA’S CRUSADERS: An expanded version of Bits of Paradise, produced
at the Met Theater in association with Rogue Machine in Hollywood.
(Writer/Director/Producer/Actor)
CHASING SANGHA: Two women meet and go on a Vision Quest in the desert. Produced at Athena Cats 10-Minute Play Festival, Santa Monica (Writer).
FILM:
WHAT DID YOU DO IN THE WAR, MAMA?: KOCHIYAMA’S CRUSADERS (Documentary now in post-production).
READING PLANET (Sci-Fi Educational Children’s Series Scriptwriter)
REUNION: A cross-cultural look at two very different high school reunions (Florida and Poland). (Co-Producer/Editor, Documentary, Official Selection at numerous international film festivals)
MIDSUMMER NIGHT COWBOY: A Shakespeare Western. (Screenwriter, Script sold to Shadow Hill Productions)
LAWRENCE CZOKA
In addition to a long
history of working in the theater, Lawrence Czoka has extensive experience as a
recording engineer and mastering engineer at Good Vibrations and Studio West in
the San Diego area. Now semi-retired, he continues to provide mastering
services at Studio West on a part-time basis.
DRAMALOGUE AWARDS:
Composer & Sound Design: A TALE OF TWO CITIES (San
Diego Repertory Theatre)
Sound Design: SLINGSHOT (San Diego Repertory Theatre)
Original Music & Sound
Design: ABUNDANCE (Black Friars Theatre/Bristol Court Playhouse)
SAN DIEGO THEATRE CRITICS CIRCLE NOMINATIONS:
Best Sound Design: DANNY AND THE DEEP BLUE SEA (The
Bowery Theatre)
Best New Score: GLASS MENAGERIE (The Bowery Theatre)
Best New Score: GASLIGHT (The Bowery Theatre)
Best New Score: THE LAST
GOOD MOMENT OF LILLY BAKER (Gaslamp Quarter Theatre)
Created original music, arrangements and sound design for
over 20 productions.
Highlights include:
MUSICAL DIRECTOR AND ARRANGER:
WORKING
FUNERAL MARCH FOR A ONE-MAN BAND
TINTYPES
A FUNNY THING HAPPENED ON THE WAY TO THE FORUM
ORIGINAL MUSIC COMPOSER AND SOUND DESIGNER:
DIVISION STREET (Sound Design Only)
BURN THIS (Musical Arrangements and Sound Design)
LOOT (Musical Arrangements and Sound Design)
A LOVELY SUNDAY FOR CREVE COEUR (Sound Design)
Created original music, arrangements and sound design for
over 20 productions.
Highlights include:
THREE-PENNY OPERA and ANGEL CITY (Musical
Director/Arranger)
AMAHL AND THE NIGHT VISITORS (Sound Design Composer)
RASHOMON (Original Music
and Sound Design)
NOON (Original Music and
Sound Design)
SARDA VAARDAK (Original
Play By Judith Fein) (Sound Design)
COMEDIANS (Musical Director, Arranger, Conductor)
THE RICHEST GIRL IN THE WORLD FINDS HAPPINESS (Composer
and sound design)
THE FANTASTICKS (Musical Director)
JEEZMOH (Original Rock Opera) (Musical Director, Arranger,
Producer
- Music Preparation Supervisor for movie scores, operas,
musicals
- San Diego Symphony commissions.
- Staff Sound Designer: UCSD Theater Department.
-Original Music & Sound Design -- Sushi Gallery
-Original Music & Sound Design -- San Diego Actors Theatre
-Original Music & Sound Design -- California Young Playwrights [Old Globe
Theatre]
-Original Music & Sound Design -- Marvin’s Dinner Theatre [Del Mar, CA]
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