Experience Talks Online: “Melissa Arctic” and “Marjorie Prime”

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Now Posted: Host Alicia Sedwick talks with cast members from The Road Theatre on Magnolia’s current play, Melissa Arctic, along with their director Scott Smith, and with award-winning New York-based actors, Frank Wood and Lois Smith, currently starring in Marjorie Prime, at the Mark Taper Forum.

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Scott Alan Smith

Melissa Arctic Director Scott Alan Smith

Scott Smith has been on The Road Theatre’s artistic board since 1998. His directing credits at The Road include Lady (4 Ovation nominations and  2 LA Weekly awards). He is also a Theatre, Film and TV actor and professor in the Theatre Arts Department at Pepperdine University.

 

 

 

Melissa ArcticMelissa Arctic is running at the The Road Theatre on Magnolia in North Hollywood until November 15th. More information can be found at www.roadtheatre.org.

Melissa Arctic - scene

 

A scene from The Road’s visually captivating Melissa Arctic.

 

 

 

Lois SmithLois Smith, actress in The Mark Taper Forum’s Marjorie Prime
American Theatre Hall of Fame member Lois Smith is a Drama Desk award winner (Trip To Bountiful) and two-time Tony Award nominee (Grapes of Wrath and Buried Child). Ms. Smith has been working in Theatre, Film and Television for 60 years, from iconic films like East of Eden with James Dean, to TV’s True Blood.

Frank WoodActor Frank Wood, actor in the Mark Taper Forum’s Marjorie Prime
Wood is a Theatre, Television and Film actor. His Theatre credits include winning a Tony Award in 1999 for Side Man. He played Bill in August: Osage County on Broadway and starred as the character Roy Cohn in the acclaimed off-Broadway revival of Tony Kushner’s Pulitzer prize-winning play Angels in America.

Lois-Frank-Marjorie Prime

 

Lois Smith and Frank Wood in Marjorie Prime at The Mark Taper Forum.

 

 

 

Marjorie Prime

 

For more information about Marjorie Prime, playing at the Mark Taper Forum until October 19th, please visit their website at www.centertheatregroup.org

 


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