PEP | Performers Exchange Project

We begin our tour of our newest original play Our American Ann Sisters with a two-day run at The Hamner Theater in Nelson County on Thursday, March 25th, and Friday, March 26th. Both shows are at 7:30. Tickets are $10. Call The Hamner for information and ticket reservations at (434) 361-1999.

We feel so honored to receive all this lovely praise from people who saw Our American Ann Sisters:
“I never go to the theater. Perhaps once a year I’ll see a play (perhaps not). I came to yours because I thought that it would be fun to see what you and your colleagues had [...]

Thank you to everyone who made this run possible: Live Arts, our Donors, our Production Team, and our Audience. Onward to the next phase. Stay tuned…

onight is the world premiere of our original play Our American Ann Sisters at Live Arts’ UpStage Theater. We are so excited to show you the fruits of our labor over the past 18 months, and grateful for all the community support throughout our process. When we sent out our last email about our $5,000 [...]

We’d like to sincerely thank the following for their donations since our last appeal:
Frans and Dalal Preidel
Bobbye Goldstein
Ingrid Berger and Mark McLane
Cate Andrews
Bob Hoyt
John Conover
Jude Silveira
Kevin Wood
B Stanley
Patrick Dooley
Steve Taylor
Judy Mendenhall
Terry and Jim McLane
Framestone Solutions
Nora Brookfield
John Mendenhall
MC Jones
Betsy Noble
Marisa Vrooman
BG Hays
Miller Susen
Lang & Latham Murray
Michael Lundblad
Max Fenton
Mary Catron
Ft Lauderdale Insurance Services
Sandra Higgins
Susan Nuss
Angela Richards
Richard and [...]

We put out the call and you are responding! Thanks to all who have contributed in the last few days since we let you know we were $5,000 short of our budget for our upcoming world premiere of Our American Ann Sisters. If you haven’t given anything yet, would you consider something small? Anything at [...]

In addition to the substantial individual contributions PEP has received thus far, we were fortunate to receive two foundation grants, from the SHEA Collaborative and the Charlottesville Area Community Foundation. However, we find ourselves with a budget shortfall of $5,000 and just four weeks left to go before Our American Ann Sisters premieres at Live [...]

Developing Original Material for Performance: A workshop for actors. An opportunity for interested Charlottesville area performers to participate in some of the elements used by PEP in their process of developing original performance. Participants will develop their own etudes (short scores of physical action). Depending on interests of Performer and PEP, participants could be invited [...]

Well, we’ve made it.  Exactly one year ago, Kara, Doreen, Sian, Jennifer, Kay and I sat down in Sian’s teeny little apartment and decided to take a risk — to experiment with the longest development process I’ve ever engaged in and create an original performance based on the lives of Americans who were a part [...]

The original play we are working on, Our American Ann Sisters, is an exciting experiment in community collaboration. Our script, which we’re writing in parallel with the development of the actors’ physical score, is part of this experiment. Some of the text for the script has been written by PEP members, some has been [...]