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Christine Deitner

Christine Deitner
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Christine Deitner received her B.F.A. in Theatre Directing/Acting from New York University [Playwrights Horizons].  She has directed versions of established works [Macbeth, The Three Sisters, Tis Pitty Shee's A Whore, Hills Like White Elephants], originals by others [Can't Catch Me Little Man, Watered Down] and originals [Anus Mundi, Entropy] along with numerous musicals at the high school level.  She traveled as a stage and company manager with musicals and dance shows in North America and Europe before moving to Los Angeles where her short film The Space Between played at LA Shorts Fest in 2009 and at AFI.  Christine has worked for Warner Bros. [Tom and Jerry, Right Now Kapow, Looney Tunes], The Simpsons [the movie, the ride, the EA game], Rob Zombie [The Haunted World of El Superbeasto], on the 2009 Sundance documentary Dirt! The Movie, on Disney’s Hannah Montana: The Movie, as a Reader and Story Analyst for Sundance, Exclusive Media and National Geographic and as a screener for Sundance Film Festival’s feature documentaries.  Her screenplays have reached the Semi or Quarter Finals with Gotham, Creative Screenwriting, Zoetrope, WriteMovies.com and the Nicholl but she is most proud to be able to say she was selected to attend Director’s Lab West in May 2017 at Pasadena Playhouse.

“Les Miz And Friends: A Puppet Parody” At The Hudson Theatre Is An Absolutely Hysterical Delight.

The press for the show promises audience interaction and improv but the way both are utilized here is utterly impressive.  In three of those many “Master of the House” reprises, Flati and Makarayk sing songs about three members of the audience who have volunteered and base their verses off of the volunteers entirely.    This is a talented cast of truly funny people who can really, really sing.  And if you are a fan of any Muppet-inspired vehicle, it’s hard not to be jealous of those three volunteers for they get to interact with such beautifully crafted characters. 

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Brian Friel’s “Faith Healer” At The Odyssey Theatre

It is the Odyssey Theatre’s 50th Anniversary Season and in honor of this wonderful accomplishment the company starts off with an intimate and powerful bang with Brian Friel’s “Faith Healer” as directed by Ron Sossi, the company’s artistic director.  In the program notes Mr. Sossi points out that though the theatre launched in 1969 and the play didn’t appear on the scene until the late 1970s, the play seems a “most apt prelude to the[ir] retrospective” season due to its innovative role in developing what we now know as the ‘monologue play’.  It was also the first play the company performed when they opened their new/current space 30 years prior on S. Sepulveda Blvd in Los Angeles.

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Theatre Unleashed: Lauren Gunderson’s “Ada and the Engine” – A Must-See in Koreatown

es, it’s possible if not likely the play has simply conjured up all of this complexity of feeling and that nothing ever existed between Ada and Babbage beyond their shared vision.  Yes, I know, there have been multiple instances over time where Ada’s contribution to the invention of the first computing machine has been questioned and tested and even dismissed.None of that matters, for the romantic liaison that Gunderson has crafted and Powers has brought to life delivers one of the loveliest and mature romantic moments I’ve seen on stage. 

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“The Bourgeois Gentlemen” at the City Garage Theatre, Santa Monica CA

The City Garage once again shows its audiences in Santa Monica, CA how much Moliere’s work is both relevant and necessary with their revival of “The Bourgeois Gentleman”.  Originally produced by the company in 2008 with a new English translation from the show’s director Frédérique Michel and the producer/production designer Charles A. Duncombe, the play centers on a wealthy merchant with dreams of becoming a member of the aristocracy.

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