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    Hispanic & Latinx Heritage Month Feature: Julia Rodriguez-Elliott

    We are wrapping up our the Hispanic & Latinx Heritage Month celebration by spotlighting our very own founder and Artistic Director, Julia Rodriguez-Elliott! Read about how her work, culture, and life experience have culminated to where she is now as an arts leader. How did you get started on your theatre journey? I wasn’t officially…

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    Latinx Heritage Month Feature: Jonathan Muñoz-Proulx

    Director of Cultural Programming Jonathan Muñoz-Proulx tours us through his beginnings as an artist in the corporate world, to his present-day adventure as the director of Noise Now and as a prominent Los Angeles arts leader. Enjoy our latest Q&A feature for Latinx Heritage Month! How did you get started on your theatre journey? My…

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    Meet our “tech” guru: Samantha Sintef

    “Ask Sam!” is an exhortation one hears daily–nay, hourly!–here at A Noise Within. If anybody knows where something connected to the stage lives or how it works, Technical Coordinator Samantha “Sam” Sintef is the one who knows. Sam’s professional experience began even before she earned her bachelor’s in theatre arts at Cal State Fullerton.  “It’s…

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    Meet Madeleine Emanuel!

    Talk about a “homegrown talent”: ANW’s new Institutional Giving Associate, Madeleine Emanuel, saw her first Company production while sitting on her mother’s lap. (The play was Great Expectations—and yes, she was as scared as Pip in the first scene!) The daughter of longtime subscribers, Madeleine saw “many a fine play” while growing up in Sierra…

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    Our Favorite Moments

    Favorite moment? Mine was definitely the first time we had an audience for The Threepenny Opera. We were all in the theatre, calling out our lines from every direction, the audience leaned forward, the band started playing, we all took our seats on stage, Ken Booth’s moving lights starting dancing around the room and Abu stood…

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    “Farewell, My Lovely”: Best to Juliana McBride

    Resident artist and stage manager Juliana McBride, whose efforts have contributed so much to the success of shows at A Noise Within, has shared her plans to take a sabbatical to spend more time with her (darling!) future first-grader Caeli—and marry her fiancé, Austin. Juliana’s career is proof positive of the importance of keeping our…