Kickstarter

THANK YOU to everyone for your support of our LA MAMA CANTATA-On Tour Kickstarter campaign.

We reached our goal of $10,000 and are going to Europe!

If you haven't already, you still have 32 hours left to get your exclusive ticket to the "WELLCOME HOME" performance and the VIP after-party. You can only get this ticket via Kickstarter. Don't miss it!

Perhaps best known for her Broadway and international smash hit Runaways, Elizabeth Swados has composed, written and directed for over thirty years. Her theatrical works have been performed on Broadway, off-Broadway, at La MaMa, Brooklyn Academy of Music, Carnegie Hall, and locations all over the world.

Her literary career includes novels, non-fiction books, children’s books and now her first collection of poetry, The One and Only Human Galaxy, about the life of Houdini and escapism, has been published by Hanging Loose Press.

Awards include the KEN Book Award, five Tony nominations, three Obie Awards, Guggenheim Fellowship, Ford Grant, Helen Hayes Award, PEN Citation and others.

Writer, composer and director, Elizabeth Swados, has many professional credits over the last 40 years and at NYU she is responsible for The Reality Show as well as Books Cook and Revolting Rhymes.

Recent work includes From The Fire, LA MAMA CANTATA, her newest acclaimed book Waiting and upcoming productions of The Nomad.

Watch why Elizabeth Swados creates LA MAMA CANTATA!!!

https://vimeo.com/48024185

Roe Hartrampf is a performer from Atlanta, Georgia transplanted to Brooklyn, New York.

He has work regionally, Off-Broadway, and on Television, most recently shooting a pilot for CBS and performing in The Bad Guys at Second Stage. Roe Has worked with Liz Swados on several occasions in New York as well as internationally, performing in From the Fire at the 2011 Edinburgh Fringe Festival.

You can watch him being gratuitously silly on the webseries SRSLY here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JH9eqnD6C0M&feature=plcp

His favorite Cantata moment is:

My favorite moments of the show are the more intimate songs where we get to learn about Ellen on a human level. We all know Ellen had a big public personality with the bell-ringing and accents, but hearing first hand accounts of people who were very close to her, set to Liz and Kris' beautiful, thoughtful music in songs like "Bench" and "Angel Smile" always leave me in awe of Ellen Stewart. Hearing the people who work at La Mama today speak about Ellen and get choked up reminds me that not only did this woman have a global impact on theater, she also left a deep, personal impression on the lives of each individual who met her. And that is my favorite thing about the La Mama Cantata. We reveal and revel in both sides of Ellen.

Grace McLean's recent credits include La MaMa Cantata (La MaMa E.T.C.), From The Fire (2011 Edinburgh Fringe Festival, MTM Best Musical Production), The Daughters (CAP21), The Last Goodbye (Williamstown Theatre Festival).

Grace's original show Grace McLean Lives in Concert debuted during Ars Nova's 2011 ANTfest and was given an encore performance in June 2011.  Make Me Breakfast, the debut EP by Grace McLean and Them Apples is available on iTunes  http://www.gracemclean.com/

Watch why Grace is so excited about La MaMa Cantata European Tour!