Meet ACCELERATOR artist Tanya White! @tanyawla - LINK IN BIO
ACCELERATOR is Los Angeles Performance Practice's flagship artist development program--a nine-month intensive that empowers multidisciplinary artists to build sustainable, visionary, and self-determined creative careers.
ACCELERATOR cohort member Tanya White is a theater artist working and performing as a playwright, actor, director and teacher. She’s a frequent contributor to storytelling shows in Los Angeles and believes the personal narrative is the foundation for healing collective trauma. She is currently the Artistic Director of Santa Monica Repertory Theater.
“Making work and creating spaces to share it matters. The act of sharing is just as important as the content. We need to honor interiority, connect in ways that go beyond words, and keep responding to the world as it is.”
Link in bio for the full interview.
#tanyawhite #storyteller #theaterartist #playwright #santamonicarep
It’s that time of year! Los Angeles Performance Practice is hiring a paid intern to assist us with administering the California Arts Council Individual Artist Fellowships. This is an exceptional opportunity for an outstanding undergrad or spring 2026 grad to gain hands-on experience at an artist-led nonprofit. Together, we will run an application and review process that will lead to re-granting $800,000 to Los Angeles-based artists.
This year's internship begins the first week of June, and ends in early September. The intern will work approximately 400 hours (30 hrs / week), at $18.47/hr. The internship is supported by the Los Angeles County Arts Internship Program.
How to Apply: Please submit a thoughtful letter of interest after researching our organization, along with a current resume, to [email protected]. Be sure to include your name, pronouns, full contact information, educational institution, and expected year of graduation.
Know a young person who is detail-oriented, a quick reader, collaborative, and passionate about the arts? Tag them!
✨ Please apply no later than May 9, 2026. ✨
#internship #intern #lacdacaip #artsinternship
Thinking of applying to the California Arts Council Individual Artist Fellowships? Want to refine your application and have the opportunity to ask questions? Los Angeles Performance Practice is offering a series of Virtual Office Hours on Zoom. Get empowered with skills that will bolster this (and future!) applications.
Wednesday, April 29, 2026 | 4:00–5:30 PM — Artist Statements
Wednesday, May 6, 2026 | 4:00–5:30 PM — Work Samples
Wednesday, May 13, 2026 | 4:00–5:30 PM — Learning from a CAC Individual Artist Fellowship Awardee: Process, Practice, and Impact
LINK IN BIO TO REGISTER.
Register for individual sessions or all three.
The Individual Artist Fellowship for Region 6 (Los Angeles County) is a program of the California Arts Council administered by Los Angeles Performance Practice.
This activity is funded by the California Arts Council, a state agency.
#IndividualArtistFellowships #LACountyArts #LosAngelesArtists #CaliforniaArtsCouncil #ArtistGrant
Calling all Los Angeles County artists and culture bearers! In partnership with the California Arts Council, Los Angeles Performance Practice is proud to serve as the Administering Organization for the Individual Artist Fellowships in Los Angeles County for the 2025–2027 cycle.
Los Angeles Performance Practice is distributing $800,000 in unrestricted fellowship awards to artists in three tiers: Emerging Artists ($5K) | Established Artists ($10K) | Legacy Artists ($50K).
Applications are open April 20 – June 6, 2026.
For more information and to apply, visit performancepractice.la/cac-iaf or the link in our bio.
Our first in-person information session is in Glendale tomorrow, 4/21! tinyurl.com/iaf-infosessions or visit the link in our bio.
Online information sessions begin April 28.
This activity is funded by the California Arts Council, a state agency.
#IndividualArtistFellowships #LACountyArts #LosAngelesArtists #CaliforniaArtsCouncil #ArtistGrant
Los Angeles Performance Practice is thrilled to announce that we are a recipient of the Mike Kelley Foundation for the Arts' 2026 Infinite Expansion Grant. This grant will support "Requiem: por las almas que nacen de la luna" by San Cha, with rafa esparza and Darian Donovan Thomas: a large-scale, immersive performance installation, which reimagines the requiem form through a queer Latinx lens, blending music, installation, and collective ritual into an act of mourning and celebration. Nine Los Angeles County contemporary art organizations were awarded funding to support their projects that exemplify risk-taking, critical inquiry, and community engagement.
“Before news of the Mike Kelley Foundation grant, we were already thinking big, but this support has fundamentally shifted our horizon. It has empowered Los Angeles Performance Practice and me and my collaborators rafa esparza and Darian Donovan Thomas to realize the show of our dreams, a space where everything is truly possible,” said artist San Cha. “As artists, that is an incredibly exciting and liberating place to be; it feels like we are finally living the dream we’ve been building toward.”
The Mike Kelley Foundation for the Arts advances the artist’s spirit of critical thinking, risk-taking, and provocation in the arts. Established by Kelley in 2007, the Foundation seeks to further Kelley’s philanthropic work through grants to arts organizations and artists for innovative projects that reflect his multifaceted artistic practice. The Foundation also preserves the artist’s legacy more broadly and fosters the understanding of his life and creative achievements through educational initiatives including exhibitions, educational events, publications, and the preservation and care of the Foundation’s art collections and archives.
Photo by Angel Origgi courtesy of REDCAT.
#sancha #requiem #mikekelleyfoundation
Meet ACCELERATOR artist VORA! @vora______ - LINK IN BIO
ACCELERATOR is Los Angeles Performance Practice's flagship artist development program--a nine-month intensive that empowers multidisciplinary artists to build sustainable, visionary, and self-determined creative careers.
Cohort member VORA (she/they) is a sonic and visual storyteller, integrating movement, visuals and sound in performances to illuminate themes of mysticism, deep ecology, and humanity’s imprint on nature. VORA is the founder and co-director of Water&Power, an artist-run community space in South LA. They also curate VISCERA, an experimental performing arts show that bridges the gap between DIY and traditional performance art.
“When you play an instrument, your body almost becomes part of that instrument," says VORA, "You co-resonate with that instrument in a way where you’re working together in this very physical partnership, like a dance.”
Link in bio for the full interview.
#vora #waterandpower #experimentalmusic #experimentalmusician
Los Angeles Performance Practice’s BRIDGE THE GAPS_FUND (BtG_FUND) awarded artists impacted by the Eaton and Palisades wildfires with $1250 microgrants to support the rebuilding of their artistic practices. Tamir Yardenne is one such artist.
A graduate of NYU’s Tisch School of the Arts, Yardenne’s work spans theatre, film, and television. An inspired multihyphenate actor-writer-producer, he is using his BtG_FUND grant to partially fund his current work for the stage, The Young and the Rest of Us. A satire set in the world of soap operas, The Young and the Rest of Us is the story of an Emmy up for grabs--and of a Black actor who has a wake up call to the realities of racial inequity in the industry. Combining elements of classic whodunits with biting critique, the play runs April 2 to May 10 at the Group Rep Theatre in North Hollywood.
This March, Tamir sat down over Zoom with LAPP’s gina young (@ginagenius ) to talk liveness and live performance, soap operas, Carol Burnett, and the urgency of continued wildfire relief.
Read the interview via the link in our bio.
Meet ACCELERATOR artist Emma Irene Olson! @emma.irene - LINK IN BIO
ACCELERATOR is Los Angeles Performance Practice's flagship artist development program--a nine-month intensive that empowers multidisciplinary artists to build sustainable, visionary, and self-determined creative careers.
Cohort member Emma Irene Olson (she/they) is a queer multidisciplinary performance artist whose work explores themes of self, perception, ego, authority, anti-capitalism, and consciousness, while being rooted in love, connection, nature, and play.
Of her inspirations, Emma Irene says, “Clown has taken a lot of pressure off my own work, and it made me less afraid of how I’ll be received and more willing to take risks without needing things to feel polished.”
Link in bio for the full interview.
#emmaireneolson #performer #clown #mycelium #mushrooms
Meet ACCELERATOR artist Teila Theisen! @doteilasofamiredo - LINK IN BIO
ACCELERATOR is Los Angeles Performance Practice's flagship artist development program--a nine-month intensive that empowers multidisciplinary artists to build sustainable, visionary, and self-determined creative careers.
Cohort member Teila Theisen (she/her) is a performer, educator, and community advocate who is passionate about creating accessible, equitable, and inclusive live theater experiences for every adult and child.
“It can be isolating and disheartening to be the only person of color in a room," she says in this interview with LAPP's Jazz Zhu, "What helps is knowing that many women of color are doing this work all over the world, even if we don’t always see each other.”
Link in bio for the full interview.
#teilatheisen #performer #educator #communityadvocate #LAthtr
A free-swirling debrief of Los Angeles Performance Practice’s latest iteration of CASUAL—co-authored and co-curated by Marsian De Lellis, William Ruiz Morales, and gina young—is now published on Mid Theory Collective. Link in bio to read more.
Mid Theory is a space for scholars in the humanities to think, learn, read, and write together. On this forum, we discuss the wonderful works-in-process by Vic Marks, Cayla Mae Simpson, CadeMoga + Ironstone, and Anuj Bhutani that were presented to a highly engaged audience at the Los Angeles LGBT Center. We also probe deeper questions of co-curation, what Los Angeles needs now, and what it means to be “casual.”
Read the full debrief at Mid Theory via the link in our bio, or on our website, performancepractice.la
#postmortem #theatre #LAthtr #contemporaryperformance #casual
Meet ACCELERATOR artist Scottie Harvey! @fearofegg - LINK IN BIO
ACCELERATOR is Los Angeles Performance Practice's flagship artist development program--a nine-month intensive that empowers multidisciplinary artists to build sustainable, visionary, and self-determined creative careers.
Cohort member Scottie Harvey (she/her) is a writer, performer, and animator from Los Angeles. Dramatic work has been featured at Dynasty Handbag’s Weirdo Night, Pageant, and Theatre Rhinoceros. Animated work has been featured by musician Julien Baker and screened at many festivals. Scottie co-hosts the monthly “Animation Clubhouse” with Sam Lane.
“I’m the person who texts someone at 1 a.m. with an idea I just had," says Scottie, "Writing a novel put me in a more intimate space with language. No bodies, no logistics, just words. It’s lonely, but I like that too. With theatre, I’m always thinking about the audience. With the novel, I’m just asking, how can I make myself laugh?”
Link in bio for the full interview.
#scottieharvey #writer #playwright #animator #artist
A big welcome to LAPP's new Programming + Producing Intern, Jazz Zhu!
Jazz brings experience in theatremaking and human-centered design to our team, and shares a collection of interesting facts about her life and work on our blog today.
"Long story short, acting got me out of my shell. I was a kid who didn’t quite know her place in the world but desperately wanted to feel alive. To make things that do not last and connections that do. To make the parallel universe real. Acting eventually led me to directing, which expanded me in a whole new dimension. That, in turn, led to producing and arts administration, where I learned how to step back and support other artists’ growth."
Check out the interview via the link in our bio, or at our website, performancepractice.la
#intern #theatre #humancentereddesign #LAthtr
