In true Elephant fashion we are, once again, paving our own path. Our critically acclaimed sell-out 12th Season featuring all World Premieres by Los Angeles playwrights (Love Bites Volume 6 & 7, Tim McNeil’s Anything which garnered 3 LADCC awards including Best Production, Best Direction, Best Lead Actor, Gena Acosta’s Tooth and Nail and Tony Foster’s Asleep on a Bicycle) was not only an ambitious undertaking- it was a overwhelming success!!!

The Elephant’s 13th Season (2009) line-up attempts to keep the momentum going by offering daringly fresh perspectives in three world premieres and our annual short-play festival. A cult favorite and Elephant hallmark: the 8th installment of Love Bites 8.0 returns on Valentine’s Day, The Idea Man: a new play by local playwright Kevin King will be directed by Artistic Director, David Fofi, Block Nine: a film noir homage by our own Tom Stanzyk will be performed by one all male cast and one all female cast in rep, and lastly, we will produce another heart wrenching bittersweet tale by Elephant playwright Timothy McNeil (Anything, Los Muertos) entitled Supernova.

Prepare yourself for a truly remarkable 13th Season…

In addition to all of the new offerings, be on the lookout for Staged Readings of works-in-progress, and bigger than ever Elephant Events!

What can we say? Creativity abounds at the Elephant! Please join us this season and support Los Angeles’ finest playwrights, actors, and directors.

David Fofi, Artistic Director / Elephant Theatre Company
Lindsay Allbaugh, Producing Director / Elephant Theatre Company

To check out the Elephant’s 13-year history in pictures click here:http://myspacetv.com

The World Premiere of LOVE BITES, Vols. VIII
Written by Elephant Company Members

February 14 - March 14, 2009
Every Thursday, Friday, and Saturday at 8pm
FOR TICKETS: This show is now closed

Performances are at:
The Elephant Space
6322 Santa Monica Blvd.
Hollywood CA 90038
(One bock west of Vine on Santa Monica Blvd)

“Love Bites demonstrates that the Elephant Company can produce original material with depth and quality. The level of writing, acting and direction is above many of the company’s peers.”
-- Metro LA

“These short plays are strange in their dysfunctional, comedic aura; and definitely funny.”
--Entertainment Today

To celebrate (or skewer) love's greeting card and chocolatier official season, the Elephant issues theeigth consecutive editions of its perennial favorite Love Bites series. Two sets of original one-acts, all grappling with life's most enduring mystery, will play in rep from Valentine's Day through March 14th.

The World Premiere of THE IDEA MAN
By Kevin King
Directed by David Fofi

May 8 – June 6, 2009
Every Thursday, Friday, and Saturday at 8pm

Special Matinee performances (PLAYCARE):
Saturday May 30 at 2pm
Saturday June 6 at 2pm
Take advantage of our new program: PLAYCARE. The Elephant will offer (FREE!) on-site supervised babysitting—with theater-related activities while parents attend select Saturday matinee performances.

Join us for a post-show TALKBACK with the playwright, director and actors after these performances:
Saturday, May 16 after the 8pm performance
Friday, May 22 after the 8pm performance

Performances are at:
Elephant Theatre
6322 Santa Monica Blvd.
Los Angeles, CA 90038
(One bock west of Vine off of Santa Monica Blvd)

CLICK HERE For More Information or to Purchase Tickets

THE IDEA MAN takes us into that great gaping gulf between labor and management. This biting commentary on class warfare by playwright Kevin King with the Elephant’s award-winning Artistic Director, David Fofi, at the helm will take you into the trenches, boardrooms, bedrooms, and barrooms of today’s industrial world where exploitation is a given.

The World Premiere of BLOCK NINE
By Tom Stanczyk
Directed by David Fofi

August 14 – September 19, 2009

Performances are at:
Elephant Theatre
6322 Santa Monica Blvd.
Los Angeles, CA 90038
(One bock west of Vine off of Santa Monica Blvd)

CLICK HERE For More Information or to Purchase Tickets

The story of an undercover cop's journey into an underworld full of jailbreaks, guns, bodies, and booze!  But this trip to the dark side is told with a special twist. It will be performed in rep with an all male cast and an all female cast! BLOCK NINE explores sexuality, gender, stereotype, romance and aggression. “Oz” this ain’t!  It’s a campy, unapologetically same sex retro-noir two-point pirouette of a 30’s-gangster homage.  Come “packin’ heat” and…“Tell ‘em Cody sent ya!”.

The World Premiere of SUPERNOVA
By Timothy McNeil 
Directed by David Fofi

November 20 – December 19, 2009

Performances are at:
Elephant Theatre
6322 Santa Monica Blvd.
Los Angeles, CA 90038
(One bock west of Vine off of Santa Monica Blvd)

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It begins with a simple phone call. An exchange between two withdrawn strangers. Fate intervenes in the life of Mable Davies, an isolated housewife stuck in a cruel and loveless existence, who must decide if she is capable of taking a cosmic leap of faith. The award winning author of ANYTHING and LOS MUERTOS brings us this bittersweet look at losing love and finding it again.

7 REDNECK CHEERLEADERS 08'
By Louis Jacobs
Directed by Amy French

Opens Fri, Jul 18 – Sat, Aug 30
Thurs, Fri, Sat 8 pm

Performances are at:
Elephant Theatre
6322 Santa Monica Blvd.
Los Angeles, CA 90038
(One bock west of Vine off of Santa Monica Blvd)

CLICK HERE For More Information or to Purchase Tickets

ROTATING CAST FOR AUGUST 08'
August 21st – Thursday
Don Cesario David Fofi Alexandra Hoover Brett Hren Cheryl Huggins
Kerry Carney Jennifer Eckert Andrew Gilbert

August 22nd – Friday
Don Cesario David Fofi Alexandra Hoover Darryl Armbruster Dylan Jones
Kerry Carney Zibby Allen Jeremy Glazer

August 23rd – Saturday
Don Cesario David Franco Marisa O’Brien Tom Stanczyk Dylan Jones
Kerry Carney Zibby Allen John Forest

August 24th – Sunday
Christopher Game David Franco Marisa O’Brien Brett Hren Dylan Jones
Kerry Carney Jennifer Eckert John Forest

August 28th – Thursday
James Pippi David Franco Marisa O’Brien Darryl Armbruster Maria Tomas
Kerry Carney Jennifer Eckert John Forest

August 29th – Friday
Christopher Game Salvator Xuereb Alexandra Hoover Darryl Armbruster
Maria Tomas Kerry Carney Jennifer Eckert Andrew Gilbert

August 30th – Saturday
Louis Jacobs DaveFranco Alexandra Hoover Tom Stanczyk Dylan Jones
Kerry Carney Zibby Allen Jeremy Glazer

ROTATING CAST FOR SEPTEMBER 08'
September 11th - Thursday
James Pippi Salvator Xuereb Marisa O’Brien Brett Hren Maria Tomas
Nikki McCauley Kate Huffman John Forest

September 12th – Friday
James Pippi Salvator Xuereb Alexandra Hoover Tom Stanczyk Dylan Jones
Nikki McCauley Kate Huffman John Forest

September 13th – Saturday
Louis Jacobs David Franco Marisa O’Brien Darryl Armbruster Dylan Jones
Nikki McCauley Zibby Allen Jeremy Glazer

September 18th – Thursday
Louis Jacobs David Fofi Marisa O’Brien Brett Hren Maria Tomas
Kerry Carney Zibby Allen Jeremy Glazer

September 19th – Friday
James Pippi Salvator Xuereb Alexandra Hoover Brett Hren Maria Tomas
Nikki McCauley Etienne Eckert John Forest

September 20th – Saturday
Christopher Game David Franco Alexandra Hoover Darryl Armbruster Dylan Jones
Kerry Carney Zibby Allen Andrew Gilbert

September 25th – Thursday
Louis Jacobs David Fofi Marisa O’Brien Brett Hren Maria Tomas
Kerry Carney Kate Huffman John Forest

September 26th – Friday
James Pippi Salvator Xuereb Alexandra Hoover Darryl Armbruster Maria Tomas
Nikki McCauley Jennifer Eckert Andrew Gilbert

September 27th – Saturday
Chris Game David Franco Marisa O’Brien Darryl Armbruster Dylan Jones
Kerry Carney Zibby Allen Jeremy Glazer

ROTATING CAST FOR OCTOBER 08'
October 2nd – Thursday
Chris Game David Franco Marisa O’Brien Cheryl Huggins Darryl Armbruster
Kerry Carney Kate Huffman John Forest

October 3rd – Friday
James Pippi David Franco Alexandra Hoover Brett Hren Maria Tomas
Kerry Carney Jennifer Eckert Andrew Gilbert

October 4th -- Saturday
Louis Jacobs Dave Fofi Alexandra Hoover Darryl Armbruster Dylan Jones
Nikki McCauley Zibby Allen Jeremy Glazer

CRITIC'S PICK! --LA Times & ReviewPlays

"A HELL OF A GREAT RIDE! ...
Outlandish humor ...parodies rise like a theatrical souffle. French's direction perfectly illustrates this fragile balance, and the phenomenal cast is spot on." --LA Weekly

"Lots of fun and wickedly sexy developments...People lept to their feet in uproarious applause...it was simply delicious!" --LA Splash

Somewhere in Hollywood, near Santa Monica Boulevard and Vine, lines between reality and fiction, art and life, are crossed again and again as a playwright directs his autobiographical play in a Hollywood 99-seat theatre. In 7 REDNECK CHEERLEADERS, watch what happens as actors play actors playing rednecks, and see who transforms the most. It's a little congregation of misfits ready to become someone else and tell the story of small-town boy who is willing to be a cheerleader for love.

ASLEEP ON A BICYCLE
By Tony Foster
Directed by David Fofi

Opens Sept 5,
Thurs., Fri & Sat at 8pm

Performances are at:
Elephant Theatre
6322 Santa Monica Blvd.
Los Angeles, CA 90038
(One bock west of Vine off of Santa Monica Blvd)

CLICK HERE For More Information or to Purchase Tickets

Capping the Elephant’s season of world premieres is Tony Foster’s Asleep on a Bicycle. Foster’s sexy dreamscape features: an ax-wielding ancestral rival to Lizzie Borden; a big-hearted lesbian nun; a late great Italian screen siren; a dream-child named after the family cat who grows up before our mind’s eye; a hot screenplay by some flavor-of-the-week writer geek whose high six figure manuscript stars a tough-talking vagina; and sundry others who figure grandly in the waking dream of a young woman who may or may not be lost in a fatal coma following a bizarre bicycle accident. This trippily surreal comedy manages to touch places in our hearts and obscure corners of our collective unconscious.

ANYTHING
By Tim McNeil Directed by David Fofi

November 30th through January 27th (off Dec 23-Jan 2)
Fridays and Saturdays @8pm, Sunday’s @7pm

Performances are at:
The Lillian Theatre 1076 N. Lillian Way,
Hollywood CA 90038
(One bock west of Vine off of Santa Monica Blvd)

For More Information or to Purchase Tickets: 323.960.4410
or visit www.plays411.com/anything

CRITIC'S CHOICE  

"An offbeat love story with humor and heart..."  "The terrific cast is incapable of a false moment."  "...a mesmerizing, uproarious performance not to be missed."   
­Los Angeles Times

"EXTREMELY FUNNY... EXTREMELY HEARTFELT..." "McNeil and Fofi do a hell of a job creating a story that is original and new..."  
 ­LA Splash

McNeil starts the season off with Anything, a wryly humorous, profoundly moving story of the remarkable love that blossoms between Early Landry, a grief-stricken near-recluse from small town Mississippi, and his tranny neighbor, the beautiful and exotic Freda von Rhensburg. McNiel, the author of such critically-acclaimed plays as Margaret, Supernova, Crane Mississippi, and, most recently at the Elephant, his powerful Los Muertos, sets his story of strange yet -familiar love within strolling distance of Hollywood’s Theatre Row. David Fofi will direct.

THE SAN FRANCISCO PLAY (a staged reading)
By Louis Doug Jacobs

Show Dates -TBA

Performance at:
The Elephant Space
6322 Santa Monica Blvd.,
Hollywood CA 90038
(One bock west of Vine on Santa Monica Blvd)

Betwixt and between, there’ll be the Elephant’s now-expected moveable feast of readings, workshops, 2nd stage shows, and LA24/Rushes. In mid-January, keep an eye out for a one-night only, fully staged reading of The San Francisco Play by company playwright Louis Doug Jacobs, author of the Elephant’s recent critically-acclaimed sell-out hit comedy 7 Redneck Cheerleaders. Hearts aren’t the only thing broken in Jacobs’ play whose action all takes place on the day of “the Big One,” the 1908 quake that changed the Bay City and its inhabitants forever. Be forewarned, this tale features a sexually-addled mother-smothered scion of a prominent Nob Hill family who’s visited by a larcenous team of thespian con artists posing as Helen Keller and Annie Sullivan

LOVE BITES, Vols. VI & VII
Written by Elephant Company Members

February 14th through March 9th & May 2nd through June 7th.
Every Thursday, Friday, and Saturday at 8pm

Performances are at:
The Elephant Space
6322 Santa Monica Blvd.
Hollywood CA 90038
(One bock west of Vine on Santa Monica Blvd)

“Love Bites demonstrates that the Elephant Company can produce original material with depth and quality. The level of writing, acting and direction is above many of the company’s peers.”
-- Metro LA

“These short plays are strange in their dysfunctional, comedic aura; and definitely funny.”
--Entertainment Today

To celebrate (or skewer) love’s greeting card and chocolatier official season, the Elephant issues the sixth and seventh consecutive editions of its perennial favorite Love Bites series. Two sets of original one-acts, all grappling with life’s most enduring mystery, will play in rep from Valentine’s Day through March 9th. Performances are at The Elephant Lab 1078 N. Lillian Way., Hollywood CA 90038 (One bock west of Vine off of Santa Monica Blvd) TOOTH AND NAIL By Gena Acosta Elephant playwright Gena Acosta joins the fun with her fresh from the pen comedy, Tooth and Nail. Acosta’s uproariously dysfunctional family seizes the Elephant Space on in early May and runs through mid-June. Leaping into territory touched on by such comic masters as Durang and Guare, Acosta’s off-the-rail comedy threatens to become the company’s next break-out hit.

TOOTH AND NAIL
By Gena Acosta
Directed by Lindsay Allbaugh

May 15th through June 15th. EXTENDED through June 28th!
Thursday, Friday and Saturday's at 8pm, Sunday's at 7pm.

Extension Performances: June 19, 20, 21, 27 and 28 at 8pm.

Performances are at:
The Lillian Theatre 1076 N. Lillian
Hollywood CA 90038
(One bock west of Vine off of Santa Monica Blvd)

Elephant playwright Gena Acosta joins the fun with her fresh from the pen comedy, Tooth and Nail. Acosta’s uproariously dysfunctional family seizes the Elephant Space on in early May and runs through mid-June. Leaping into territory touched on by such comic masters as Durang and Guare, Acosta’s off-the-rail comedy threatens to become the company’s next break-out hit.