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- ANW Edu
Education puts A Noise Within’s mission into action by connecting students, educators, and the community with classic theatre and modern magic. Every year, A Noise Within enriches the lives of over 18,000 Southern California students in our theatre, online, and in your classrooms.
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- Summer With Shakespeare
Summer With Shakespeare gives campers the opportunity to work with professional artists and technicians to gain an appreciation of Shakespeare’s verse, as well as a unique exposure to a variety of classic plays.
About Us
A Noise Within produces classic theatre as an essential means to enrich our community by embracing universal human experiences, expanding personal awareness, and challenging individual perspectives. Learn more about ANW and all the amenities we offer!

An oasis for those who love classic stories. Los Angeles Times

Ellen Mandel

WITH A NOISE WITHIN:

2019-2020 Season: Composer, The Winter’s Tale

ELLEN MANDEL has written music for over eighty plays at theaters including the Antaeus (Scenie with Jeff Gardner, music for Top Girls) and Actor’s Co-op, plus in NYC: Phoenix, Mint, Jean Cocteau Rep (Resident Composer), Pearl, and many regionals, and received many best music nominations for her theater work. She has composed songs to poems by E.E. Cummings, Seamus Heaney, W.B. Yeats, Charlotte Mew, and others, performed at concerts across the USA and in Europe, and is working on a Thomas Hardy song cycle. Mandel’s theater music is “remarkable for consistent invention, compositional resource, and apt theatricality,” Village Voice; and her songs are “ardent, spiky, and refreshingly organic,” NY Times. Dizzy Gillespie called Ellen a “wonderful musician.” • ellenmandel.com