The Zip Code Plays

From her dressing room on the set of the classic MGM film “Dinner at Eight,” the consummate character actress recounts the improbable journey that brought her from small-town ugly duckling to glamorous movie star at the dawn of the studio era. What does it cost a woman to stay on top? For episode notes and to learn more about Antaeus Theatre Company, please visit: https://antaeus.org/special_events/90028-hollywood/ Support The Zip Code Plays! Make a gift to help Antaeus continue pursuing innovative new artistic projects in 2021 and beyond: https://ci.ovationtix.com/35088/store/donations/29230

First time home buyers Isa and Hannah are thrilled to be moving into their updated Craftsman style bungalow, but a near-Biblical plague of unexpected intruders pushes the couple to really get to know all of their neighbors in this environmental parable of city dwellers learning to share space. For episode notes and to learn more about Antaeus Theatre Company, please visit: https://antaeus.org/special_events/90039-frogtown/ Support The Zip Code Plays! Make a gift to help Antaeus continue pursuing innovative new artistic projects in 2021 and beyond: https://ci.ovationtix.com/35088/store/donations/29230

As the Great Depression rolls on, Fernando and Difford, two ambitious young men, take government relief jobs maintaining the city’s large urban wilderness, but on the fateful date of October 3, 1933 something goes terribly wrong… How do we follow our dreams when the natural order has been disrupted? For episode notes and to learn more about Antaeus Theatre Company, please visit: https://antaeus.org/special_events/90027-griffith-park/ Support The Zip Code Plays! Make a gift to help Antaeus continue pursuing innovative new artistic projects in 2021 and beyond: https://ci.ovationtix.com/35088/store/donations/29230

Mercy and her estranged daughter Bernice have their first visit in a very long time. Trauma, disappointments, and pain need to be confronted, and the profound importance of names must be understood before they can begin to move on in this sensitive and humorous portrait of a family at a crossroads. For episode notes and to learn more about Antaeus Theatre Company, please visit: https://antaeus.org/special_events/90262-lynwood/ Support The Zip Code Plays! Make a gift to help Antaeus continue pursuing innovative new artistic projects in 2021 and beyond: https://ci.ovationtix.com/35088/store/donations/29230

A late night “foley” session in the basement of a post-production house gets twisted when a grizzled veteran and an eager apprentice work on sound-effects for the low-budget slasher film, “13 Below.” Can we correct past mistakes, and was Hitchcock right — are casabas better than watermelons? This show-biz thriller has the answers. For episode notes and to learn more about Antaeus Theatre Company, please visit: https://antaeus.org/special_events/91505-burbank/ Support The Zip Code Plays! Make a gift to help Antaeus continue pursuing innovative new artistic projects in 2021 and beyond: https://ci.ovationtix.com/35088/store/donations/29230

It’s the spring of 1925. Glendale founding father Leslie C. Brand is dead and grieving widow Mary Louise is ready for the reading of the will. But who is the mysterious young woman also in attendance? Based on true events and historical figures; the play looks at the nature of philanthropy and the true inheritors of Mr. Brand’s largesse. For episode notes and to learn more about Antaeus Theatre Company, please visit: https://antaeus.org/special_events/91201-glendale/ Support The Zip Code Plays! Make a gift to help Antaeus continue pursuing innovative new artistic projects in 2021 and beyond: https://ci.ovationtix.com/35088/store/donations/29230

It’s Bingo day at the local senior center and Kwan Tai is introducing her old friend Wong Tai to the game and all of its rituals, including her lucky potato. But who will be the big winner when nemesis Mrs. Boodakian turns up? Daubers, cards, and insults fly in this raucous comedy about claiming one’s space. For episode notes and to learn more about Antaeus Theatre Company, please visit: https://antaeus.org/special_events/91754-monterey-park-bingo-bitches/ Support The Zip Code Plays! Make a gift to help Antaeus continue pursuing innovative new artistic projects in 2021 and beyond: https://ci.ovationtix.com/35088/store/donations/29230

Watching the world go by from her NoHo balcony, self-appointed “detective” Aimee-Lynn is a curious observer of the goings-on in the neighborhood. But when a suspicious incident occurs on the street below, her worldview is changed forever in this dramedy about the duality that exists right before our eyes — if we can see it. For episode notes and to learn more about Antaeus Theatre Company, please visit: https://antaeus.org/special_events/91601-north-hollywood-end-of-the-line/ Support The Zip Code Plays! Make a gift to help Antaeus continue pursuing innovative new artistic projects in 2021 and beyond: https://ci.ovationtix.com/35088/store/donations/29230

Dr. LaShae Fair, a university professor stung by professional disappointment, has a chance encounter with an old man and his mule that pushes her into a thrilling storm of family revelations, haunting visions, and altered realities, where she discovers an answer to the question, “What do we owe to the past?” For episode notes and to learn more about Antaeus Theatre Company, please visit: https://antaeus.org/special_events/91331-pacoima-gold-shine/ Support The Zip Code Plays! Make a gift to help Antaeus continue pursuing innovative new artistic projects in 2021 and beyond: https://ci.ovationtix.com/35088/store/donations/29230

Hollywood Park Racetrack is about to close its doors forever, but that doesn’t stop new-to-town Lina from searching for a long lost relative — with nothing but a yellowing polaroid and an old tip sheet. The odds for the future are long in this look at the dreams that drive people to reinvent themselves in the City of Angels. For episode notes and to learn more about Antaeus Theatre Company, please visit: https://antaeus.org/special_events/90303-inglewood-the-vig/ Support The Zip Code Plays! Make a gift to help Antaeus continue pursuing innovative new artistic projects in 2021 and beyond: https://ci.ovationtix.com/35088/store/donations/29230

Broadcasting live on the radio from the Angelus Temple, famed 1920s evangelist Aimee Semple McPherson is forced to defend her past, her present and the future of Los Angeles itself when she entertains two visitors, one alive and one dead. Religion, power and celebrity are all up for grabs in this peek into the city’s early days. For episode notes and to learn more about Antaeus Theatre Company, please visit: https://antaeus.org/special_events/90026-echo-park/ Support The Zip Code Plays! Make a gift to help Antaeus continue pursuing innovative new artistic projects in 2021 and beyond: https://ci.ovationtix.com/35088/store/donations/29230

When Joe and Moses, an interracial gay couple of a certain age, are confronted by a new, straight resident of WeHo outside their favorite queer bar, questions of privilege, code switching, and daytime drag burst like an overstuffed piñata in this hilarious and provocative look at who is really colonizing whom. For episode notes and to learn more about Antaeus Theatre Company, please visit: https://antaeus.org/special_events/90069-west-hollywood/ Support The Zip Code Plays! Make a gift to help Antaeus continue pursuing innovative new artistic projects in 2021 and beyond: https://ci.ovationtix.com/35088/store/donations/29230

Join Antaeus Theatre Company again as we celebrate the culture and history of LA with six new original audio plays. The second season will be available to podcast listeners beginning Thursday, May 20 at www.antaeus.org, or wherever you get your podcasts. For more information, visit zipcodeplays.info Back at the helm for Season Two is audio producer, sound designer and Foley artist Jeff Gardner. Two-time Audiofile Award-winner Ramón de Ocampo returns as season host, and the series will once again feature original music composed by Ellen Mandel. Diego Tapia is the audio editor and Taylor Anne Cullen is the production stage manager.The Los Angeles Times called Season One “a whistle-stop tour of the weirder corners of our diverse metropolis… quick and fun and surprising, and the production quality is exceptional.” The LA Weekly found it “enchanting and original… deliver[s] Los Angeles to your laptop.” And Splash Magazines wrote, “as informative as it is entertaining… tell[s] some little-known tales of Los Angeles’ different neighborhoods.”

A magical encounter with a celestial comet awakens a pair of downtown statues and a neighboring denizen of the La Brea Tar Pits. Historical accusations, social justice, and food truck cuisine lead to a fantasia of repentance, acceptance, and grace high above the City of Angels. For episode notes and to learn more about Antaeus Theatre Company, please visit: https://antaeus.org/special_events/90012-dtla/ Support The Zip Code Plays! Make a gift to help Antaeus continue pursuing innovative new artistic projects in 2020 and beyond: https://ci.ovationtix.com/35088/store/donations/29230

In an auto junkyard, former voice teacher Martha, now nearly blind with retinitis pigmentosa, awaits a volunteer to help her locate a part for her 1998 Subaru Impreza WRX so she can take one last drive. When Billy arrives, coincidence, empathy, and music make for a very special afternoon. For episode notes and to learn more about Antaeus Theatre Company, please visit: https://antaeus.org/special_events/91352-sun-valley/ Support The Zip Code Plays! Make a gift to help Antaeus continue pursuing innovative new artistic projects in 2020 and beyond: https://ci.ovationtix.com/35088/store/donations/29230

Fresh from participating in her first street protests, 80-year old Eleanor Pender McAdams seems an unlikely subject for an FBI investigation — but who really has the upper hand? This “official file” of recordings and interviews reveals the complexities of standing up for something bigger than yourself in the modern world. For episode notes and to learn more about Antaeus Theatre Company, please visit: https://antaeus.org/special_events/90024-westwood/ Support The Zip Code Plays! Make a gift to help Antaeus continue pursuing innovative new artistic projects in 2020 and beyond: https://ci.ovationtix.com/35088/store/donations/29230

Mina never should have eaten that piece of fruit overhanging from a tree in her neighbor’s garden. Now she’s on trial before the Flora & Fauna Committee, defending the Pluckers from the Harvesters in this satirical look at the haves and have-nots in a tiny corner of the Westside. For episode notes and to learn more about Antaeus Theatre Company, please visit: https://antaeus.org/special_events/90403-santa-monica/ Support The Zip Code Plays! Make a gift to help Antaeus continue pursuing innovative new artistic projects in 2020 and beyond: https://ci.ovationtix.com/35088/store/donations/29230

Talented craftsman Joseph Kurtz arrives at the palatial Murphy Ranch ready to carve an ornate balustrade for the estate’s magnificent staircase, but the job turns out to be much more complicated than he realized. Set in 1939 and based on a true story, this is a chilling piece of LA’s hidden history. For episode notes and to learn more about Antaeus Theatre Company, please visit: https://antaeus.org/special_events/90272-pacific-palisades/ Support The Zip Code Plays! Make a gift to help Antaeus continue pursuing innovative new artistic projects in 2020 and beyond: https://ci.ovationtix.com/35088/store/donations/29230

In 1956 Leon Ivy returns home from a sojourn in Paris with a finished novel, a publisher, and big plans for his future — but times have changed along Central Avenue and his wife Bird and her new business partner, Daddy August, have enacted secret plans of their own. What are the costs of leaving home and what is the price of fighting for what you believe in? For episode notes and to learn more about Antaeus Theatre Company, please visit: https://antaeus.org/special_events/90011-south-central-los-angeles/ Support The Zip Code Plays! Make a gift to help Antaeus continue pursuing innovative new artistic projects in 2020 and beyond: https://ci.ovationtix.com/35088/store/donations/29230

Celebrate the culture and history of the diverse neighborhoods of Los Angeles from the safety of your home. Antaeus Theatre Company presents The Zip Code Plays: Los Angeles, a series of six original audio plays, each set in a different L.A. zip code. The series will be available to podcast listeners beginning Thursday, Nov. 12 at www.antaeus.org, or wherever you get your podcasts. For more information, visit zipcodeplays.info Hosted by two-time Audiofile Award-winner Ramón de Ocampo Audio Producer, Sound Designer and Foley Artist Jeff Gardner Featuring original music by Ellen Mandel