Here is a write up in Broadway World about the Actors Connection Summer Camp 2016, one of the leading acting for the camera camps for young thespians at Actors Connection in New York City. I had an amazing time writing 6 short films for these professional and talented young artists!
Photo Flash: Actors Connection Summer Camp 2016
Here are some zines that I contributed to, coming from New Zealand to Iceland. I appreciate being a part of these beautiful collaborations.
![Dark Day [Z]ine](https://laviniaroberts.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/06/dark-day-zine.jpg?w=191&h=300)
No Apologies, Summertime Sadness, May-July 2015
if you like it // i can sing it for you: a zine on aging, #002, 2015
All In Your Head, (In)Visibility, #1, Summer 2015
Basement Babes, Thanks and Thanks, Issue 12, 2015
Basement Babes, Identity, Issue 11 2015
Basement Babes, Mom, Issue 7, 2015
Basement Babes, Issue 4, 2015
GAMBA Zine: The Awaking Issue 4, 2015
Wom *News; The Zine of the University of Queensland Women’s Collective, Issue 1, 2015
GAMBA Zine; Memory, Issue 3, 2015
LTLE, Issue 2, 2015
Bushwick Open Studios, with Melissa Gurney of GAMBA Zine and Sarah Nicholls, and Basement Babes, at my exhibition, Masked/Unmasked at Fair Weather Bushwick.
Sarah made this brilliant drawing of her in one of my masks. Which I love.
Here are some beautiful literary journals I was a part of this past year. Looking forward to sharing more of my work this upcoming year!
Mosaic: Art and Literary Journal, University of California at Riverside, Ed. 54, 2015
The Healing Muse: A Journal of Literary & Visual Arts, Vol. 15, No. 1, Fall 2015
14Hills: The San Francisco State University Review, Spring 2015
Meat for Tea: The Valley Review, Spring 2015
pacificREVIEW: A West Coast Arts Review Annual, Vivarium Issue, April 2015
Off the Coast: Maine’s International Poetry Journal, Volume XXI, Pixelated and Wanting, Spring 2015
My play, The Rules of the World, created in the Women’s Work Short Play Festival at New Perspectives Theatre and performed as part of the Downtown Urban Theatre Festival at HERE Arts Center, is now published with Indie Theatre Now.
Three generations of estranged women, Nico, a young transgender woman, her mother Eva, who runs a Botanica, and Sibella, Eva’s spunky Italian, Catholic mother, fight to discover the sacred in a world ruled by commodification.
Photo from DUTF, HERE Arts Center, March 2013
My short film, I am Nobody, will be part of The University of North Carolina at Greensboro New Short Film Festival.
The work will be screened on April 27th.
Films are curated by DMC staff with help from Media Studies faculty. Included in the screening are a selection of films made by UNCG students, as well as shorts created by filmmakers from round the globe. The event starts at 8:00 and will be held on the front lawn of Jackson Library.
I am Nobody, is a short experimental film adapted from an Emily Dickinson poem. The work explores the emotional journey of creating a poem and the nature of solitude.
Production Photos:
Check out my short 10 minute play Darn It! Darla! part of the Act One : One Act 2016
Secret Theatre’s Annual One Act Festival.
Darn It! Darla! is a comedy about a now grown up childhood sitcom star who struggles to find meaningful roles for women in Hollywood, with little assistance from her talent manager.
Written by Lavinia Roberts
Directed by Kathleen Schlemmer
Naveen: Simoné Elizabeth Bart
Portia: Megan Cooper
Linda: Megan Lee
Devlin: Young Jeohn
Program 3
Show Dates
Saturday, Feb 20 5:00 PM
Sunday, Feb 21 8:00 PM
Thursday, Feb 25 8:00 PM
Saturday, Feb 27 8:00 PM
The Secret Theatre
44-02 23rd St.
Long Island City, NY 11101
E, M, G or 7 train to Courthouse SQ/23rd St.
ONLY ONE SUBWAY STOP FROM MANHATTAN
This year I directed and created costume pieces and props for the Nativity Pageant at St Paul’s Chapel.
Happy Holidays!
Watch the service here.
Special Thanks to Cecilia Roberts!
I am directing and creating props and costume pieces for the Nativity Pageant at Trinity Church.
The pageant is at 5:00 PM on Christmas Eve at St Paul’s Chapel.
Special thanks to Cecilia Roberts!
Happy Holidays!
Photos by Karin Crighton
The short film I created, inspired from a poem by Emily Dickinson titled, “I Am Nobody,” is being screened as part of the 4th International Video Poetry Festival in Athens, Greece, on December 19th. The festival is produced by the Void Network and +Institute [for Experimental Arts].
Special Thanks to performer Jessica Caron, sound designer Nicole Carroll, and director of photography Karin Crighton.
Here are film stills from, “I Am Nobody,” a new short film project I created based off an Emily Dickinson poem.
Special Thanks to:
Cinematographer: Karin Crighton
Actress: Jessica Caron
Sound Design: Nicole Carroll
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