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IAMA Theatre Company is a Los Angeles-based ensemble of artists. More at IAMATheatre.com For more information, please visit www.youngstorytellers.com. Stay tuned.

IAMA Theatre Company was conceived in 2007 by a group of young actors eager to create new theater in Los Angeles. Working with a shared commitment to exploration and development, IAMA seeks to challenge themselves and their audience by producing original works within a collaborative, multi-disciplinary ensemble. The past 5 years has seen IAMA grow from a fledgling company to “a new creative force

on the local theatre scene (LATimes)”. Fueled by the exciting work of Artist-in-Residence Leslye Headland and her Seven Deadly Plays, IAMA has brought six new, full length works to the stage. Grounded in the struggles of youth, vice, and modern life, Headland’s plays “speak directly to this generation of post-college castoffs (MetromixLA).” As a result of IAMA's collaboration with Ms. Headland and their support of her work, her play “Bachelorette”, the second of the Seven Deadly Plays, and originally developed, produced and premiered by IAMA in 2008, was also developed into a screenplay and was voted as one of the best unproduced scripts in Hollywood on the prestigious 2008 Blacklist. After playing to a sold-out run at Second Stage Theater in New York during the Summer of 2010, Ms. Headland's stage hit has since been picked up by Will Ferrell and Adam McKay's production company Gary Sanchez, and the feature film is currently shooting in New York, starring Kirsten Dunst, Lizzy Caplan, and Casey Wilson. IAMA’s passion for live performance, commitment to quality, and innovative material has garnered them recognition and rave reviews from StageSceneLA, LA2DAY, MetromixLA, LAWeekly, and The LATimes. Quickly building an enthusiastic and loyal audience, IAMA has carved a niche for themselves in an emerging LA theater community: “In this industry town, where theater is often the byproduct of actors waiting to be plucked for film and TV, IAMA’s devotion to the stage is fully grounded in its counterintuitiveness (MetromixLA)”. Eager to continue to create new theater in Los Angeles and work with new writers, IAMA also began producing IAMAFEST, an annual festival of new, one-act plays. Through the collaboration of company members and professional guest writers and directors all working in the greater LA area, IAMAFEST showcases original works that celebrate this city’s unique culture, explore the urban encounter, and investigate and reveal the sometimes humorous, often dark undertones of an exciting and eccentric Los Angeles. IAMAFEST has been so successful at building new audiences and establishing relationships with new writers, that the annual show is often sold-out for its entire three week run. IAMA is a young company, but is already an active participant in both the theater community and the city at large. Committed to sustaining the future value of theater within Los Angeles, IAMA is an active member of The Young Storytellers Foundation, an arts education and early development program that pairs artists from the entertainment industry with at-risk students in targeted public schools. Under the supervision and guidance of their mentors, the students spend weeks developing short scripts that are then performed for the school and their families by professional actors. For the last three years, IAMA members have participated in the program as both mentors in the schools, and as actors in the students’ final show, encouraging a new generation of writers to love the performing arts, to develop their creativity and confidence, and to pave the way for many stories to come. Ambition and determination are the qualities that IAMA Theatre Company was built on, and the hard work is beginning to pay off. Through the support of donors, loyal fans, an elite advisory board, and now the fiscal sponsorship of the Pasadena Arts Council, IAMA is poised for an exciting new season.

07/25/2024

💥📝HEY PLAYWRIGHTS!

Don’t miss your chance to submit for the 2024-2025 IAMA Emerging Playwrights Lab!

DEADLINE: August 1, 2024

➡️ iamatheatre.com/emergelab

07/18/2024

✍️☀️ Check out the cast for ALL GIRLS written by Rachel Borders, directed by Olivia Songer

Josh Bywater*, Olivia Gill, Amber Friendly, Faith Knapp, Paige Simunovich, Sarah Utterback*, Keliher Walsh*

*IAMA Ensemble Member

IAMA’s 2024 Emerging Playwrights Lab Reading Series is SOLD OUT ‼️ Join the waitlist in person only 30 minutes before showtime at the box office.

07/17/2024

✍️☀️ Check out the cast for PHOEBE & JESUS 4EVER written by Emman Sadorra, directed by Giovanni Ortega

Michael Barnum, Brandon English, Dylan J Locke, Alaska Jackson*, Samuel Lim, Joy Regullano, Matthew Scott Montgomery*,
Jo Yuan

*IAMA Ensemble Member

IAMA’s 2024 Emerging Playwrights Lab Reading Series is SOLD OUT ‼️ Join the waitlist in person only 30 minutes before showtime at the box office.

07/16/2024

✍️☀️ Check out the cast for THE BOTTOMLESS PIT written by Frank Paiva, directed by Hannah Wolf

Daniel Franzese, Oscar Emmanuel Fabela, Celia Mandela Rivera*, Lys Perez, Michael Sturgis

*IAMA Ensemble Member

IAMA’s 2024 Emerging Playwrights Lab Reading Series is SOLD OUT ‼️ Join the waitlist in person only 30 minutes before showtime at the box office.

07/15/2024

✍️☀️ Closing out IAMA’s 2024 Emerging Playwrights Lab Reading Series: ALL GIRLS written by Rachel Borders, directed by Olivia Songer

ALL GIRLS is about what happens when the administration of a family-owned all-girls sleepaway camp realizes that one of their campers is transgender. The play centers on three women from three different generations whose opinions and personalities clash as they determine what to do about the camper.

IAMA’s 2024 Emerging Playwrights Lab Reading Series is SOLD OUT ‼️ Join the waitlist in person only 30 minutes before showtime at the box office.

07/14/2024

✍️☀️Next up in Weekend Two of IAMA’s 2024 Emerging Playwrights Lab Reading Series: PHOEBE & JESUS 4EVER written by Emman Sadorra, directed by Giovanni Ortega

16-year-old Phoebe is having the best summer ever! She’s worship team leader at her church, madly in love with her boyfriend Josiah, and her BFF is the one and only Jesus Christ. But her holy world unravels when the secular pregnant teen Zoey arrives to shake things up, and Phoebe’s faith is tested as she ventures to explore sexuality within the confines of her religion. Can she find a way to reconcile being both holy and h***y? And if she breaks the rules, will Jesus still want to be best friends 4ever?

IAMA’s 2024 Emerging Playwrights Lab Reading Series is SOLD OUT ‼️ Join the waitlist in person only 30 minutes before showtime at the box office.

07/13/2024

✍️☀️ Kicking off Weekend Two of IAMA’s 2024 Emerging Playwrights Lab Reading Series: THE BOTTOMLESS PIT written by Frank Paiva, directed by Hannah Wolf

THE BOTTOMLESS PIT is a dramedy about q***r sideshow performers in the 1930s. When BP and Jody’s marriage of convenience is upended by the arrival of a rich couple with similar secrets, they get an irresistible glimpse of a different life. But different doesn’t necessarily mean better, especially if it means risking everything. THE BOTTOMLESS PIT explores the parts we play for the people we love on the endless journey toward loving ourselves.

IAMA’s 2024 Emerging Playwrights Lab Reading Series is SOLD OUT ‼️ Join the waitlist in person only 30 minutes before showtime at the box office.

07/11/2024

✍️☀️ Check out the cast for I Will Be written by India Kotis, directed by Reena Dutt

Avery Bagenstos, Linda Bard, Parvesh Cheena*, EJ Chen, Isabella Feliciana*, Juan Francisco Villa*, Anna Khaja, Jasmine Kimiko

*IAMA Ensemble Member

This closed reading Sunday, July 14 at 8pm is SOLD OUT ‼️There will not be a waitlist at the door.

07/10/2024

✍️☀️ Check out the cast for slanted feelings written by Sarah Cho, directed by Katherine Chou

Julia Cho, Asher J. Hammer, Danny Kang, Arthur Keng, David Kepner, Chase Kim, Terry Li*, Heidi Shon

*IAMA Ensemble Member

IAMA’s 2024 Emerging Playwrights Lab Reading Series is SOLD OUT ‼️ Join the waitlist in person only 30 minutes before showtime at the box office.

07/09/2024

✍️☀️ Check out the cast for Chromatic Black Square written by t. tara turk-haynes, directed by Velani Dibba

Kevin Daniels, Bryan Langlitz*, Marnie Price*, Kalyn Rivers, Sharlee Taylor, Lynn Wactor

*IAMA Ensemble Member

IAMA’s 2024 Emerging Playwrights Lab Reading Series is SOLD OUT ‼️ Join the waitlist in person only 30 minutes before showtime at the box office.

07/08/2024

✍️☀️ Closing out Weekend One of IAMA’s 2024 Emerging Playwrights Lab Reading Series: I Will Be You written by India Kotis, directed by Reena Dutt

I Will Be You explores, briefly, the tensions between motherhood and artistry and daughterhood and feminism.

This closed reading Sunday, July 14 at 8pm is SOLD OUT ‼️There will not be a waitlist at the door.

07/07/2024

✍️☀️ Next up in IAMA’s 2024 Emerging Playwrights Lab Reading Series: slanted feelings written by Sarah Cho, directed by Katherine Chou

Two rival Korean families compete to make the best kimchi in town. They also happen to attend the same Korean church. Who will win and bring the most glory to God with their cooking skills? Let’s pray. slanted feelings is a playwright’s ode to Korean families, gut health, and competitive cooking shows.

This reading Saturday, July 13 at 8pm is SOLD OUT ‼️ Join the waitlist in person only 30 minutes before showtime at the box office.

07/06/2024

✍️☀️ Up first in IAMA’s 2024 Emerging Playwrights Lab Reading Series: Chromatic Black Square written by t. tara turk-haynes, directed by Velani Dibba

In the throws of COVID in early 2021, Baldwin is fighting to keep his apartment, drop his relationship, and shake the love of a MAGA almost mother in law, while his estranged sister Tennie had pre-pandemic big art success that’s dwindling down to job desperation, codependency on her best friend, and major life questions. In 1867, Fannie needs Erzulie, the half Black sister she sold during the war, to do something that will set up her remaining family for some modicum of stability. And everyone is connected to the ugliest painting that might flip the art world around.

This reading is SOLD OUT ‼️ Join the waitlist in person only 30 minutes before showtime at the box office.

07/04/2024

👏 ✨ THANK YOU to the incredible guest artists who made the second annual IAMA Actors Summer Intensive so special. These IAMA Ensemble Members & Friends generously provided industry insight with passion and care. We are so grateful!

07/01/2024

💥📝 CALLING PLAYWRIGHTS!

Are you an early career playwright based in LA? Submissions are open for the 2024-2025 IAMA Emerging Playwrights Lab!

DEADLINE: August 1, 2024

➡️ iamatheatre.com/emergelab

06/29/2024

🎭✨Last season was our most ambitious ever, and we need YOUR help to keep it going!

We are in the final days of our June fundraising drive, so please join us in supporting artists and new work. Donations begin at $17 in anticipation of our incredible 17th season!

➡️Swipe to see the artists, education programs, talkbacks, ensemble, new play development and more your donation will support! Donate at

06/25/2024

🎭🔜 IAMA on Broadway! IAMA produced the world premiere of Leslye Headland’s CULT OF LOVE, the final installment of her “Seven Deadly Plays,” in 2018. We’re so excited for Leslye’s viciously funny and moving play’s Broadway debut with this November!

06/21/2024

Big thank you to casting director Danny Gordon and IAMA ensemble member for some insightful scene work sessions with IAMA Actors Summer Intensive last night! 🤍

06/21/2024

🎭✨THANK YOU to our latest IAMA $17 for 17 donors! There’s still time to join us in supporting artists and new work. Our fundraising campaign runs through June 30. Donations begin at $17 in anticipation of our incredible 17th season!

Donate at

06/20/2024

✍️☀️The sun is out so it’s time for IAMA’s 2023-24 Emerging Playwrights Lab Readings! Join us July 12–21 at Atwater Village Theatre 🎭 Admission is FREE 🎟️ Reserve your tickets at

See schedule of readings below ⬇️:

FRIDAY, JULY 12, 8PM Chromatic Black Square written by t. tara turk-haynes  
SATURDAY, JULY 13, 8PM slanted feelings written by Sarah Cho

SUNDAY, JULY 14, 8PM (Private Reading) I Will Be You written by India Kotis 
FRIDAY, JULY 19, 8PM THE BOTTOMLESS PITT written by Frank Paiva

SATURDAY, JULY 20, 8PM PHOEBE & JESUS 4EVER written by Emman Sadorra 
SUNDAY, JULY 21, 8PM ALL GIRLS written by Rachel Borders 

06/12/2024

🎭✨ Support IAMA $17 for 17! Donate at

Help bring our 17th season to life! All money raised covers:
- Artist Wage Increases
- Reduced Ticket Prices
- New Play Development
- Parent Childcare Stipends
- And more!

Last season was our most ambitious ever and we need your help to keep it going! Please join us in supporting artists and new work. Donations begin at $17 in anticipation of our incredible 17th season!

06/04/2024

👋☀️ Say hello to the 2024 IAMA Actors Summer Intensive cohort part 2!

Follow along as these emerging, early-mid career actors build their artistic muscles, form creative community, and gain the tangible skills necessary to work in the theater and TV/film industries in L.A.

06/04/2024

👋☀️ Say hello to the 2024 IAMA Actors Summer Intensive cohort part 1!

Follow along as these emerging, early-mid career actors build their artistic muscles, form creative community, and gain the tangible skills necessary to work in the theater and TV/film industries in L.A. as

06/01/2024

🎭 IAMA Ensemble Member Kacie Rogers is making theatre magic here in Los Angeles! ✨ Don’t miss I SELL WINDOWS now thru June 17!

and present I Sell Windows by Kacie Rogers, a young black woman’s existential journey through a sudden loss, navigating the intricate interplay of grief, identity, and newfound purpose, all while being a window salesman.

Written & Performed by Kacie Rogers
Directed by Jaquita Ta’le
Shadow Puppetry created by Brittaney Talbot
Shadow Puppetry performed by Brittaney Talbot and Perry Daniel
Lighting Design by Katrina Coulourides
Sound Design by James Ferrero
Scenic Design by Hanalei Vasquez

Running through June 17
Saturdays at 7:30pm
Sundays at 2:00pm
Mondays at 7:30pm
Tuesdays at 7:30pm

General Admission: $25
Students: $15

05/26/2024

🚗💨 All road trips must come to an end. Today is the final performance of THE BODY’S MIDNIGHT. Thank you for joining us on this journey!

A few tickets remain for the final performance at

05/24/2024

🚗💨 Last chance! Only THREE performances remain of THE BODY’S MIDNIGHT. Don’t miss out on this “brilliant, meditative, fiercely funny and brutally heartrending world premiere” (Broadway World).

🎟️ Tickets @

05/22/2024

📍🗺️ Thursday is CalArts Alumnx Night at THE BODY’S MIDNIGHT! Celebrate the incredible CalArtians who’ve made this show possible: Director, Jessica Kubzansky, Theater MFA 94; IAMA Theatre Company Marketing and Creative Content Producer Katharine Means, Theater BFA 2020; Boston Court Pasadena Patron Services Manager, Hannah Trujillo Theater BFA 18; and Stage Manager, Lanae Wilks, Theater MFA 23. Stick around for a post show talkback!

Tickets @

05/21/2024

📍🗺️ The road trip must come to an end. Only four more chances to see THE BODY’S MIDNIGHT. Tickets are selling fast, get yours today @

05/21/2024

🚗💨 Tonight’s Pay What You Choose Performance is SOLD OUT! Be sure to get tickets for closing weekend this Thursday – Sunday before they’re gone!

🎟️ Tickets @

05/14/2024

🚗💨 “EVOCATIVE… Featuring a strong cast of veteran IAMA actors, The Body’s Midnight is a powerful production full of gallows humor and philosophical poignancy.” Thanks The Hollywood Times!

Only two weekends left to see THE BODY’S MIDNIGHT! 🎟️ Get tickets before they sell out @

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💥📝 Hey, Playwright! This could be you! The 2024-2025 IAMA Emerging Playwrights Lab culminates in readings of each member’s full length plays in a potentially public format in the summer of 2025. Submissions are open for the 2024-2025 IAMA Emerging Playwrights Lab NOW thru August 1, 2024 More info ➡️ iamatheatre.com/emergelab #IAMAtheatre #IAMAEmergingPlaywrights #EmergingPlaywrights #Playwrights #PlaywrightsOfInstagram #ArtistResidency #LAthtr #LosAngelesTheatre #LosAngeles #OpenCall #SubmissionsOpen #IAMAtheatreCompany

Come behind the scenes as IAMA Actors Summer Intensive goes to Netflix Animation Studios! Thank you to IAMA Ensemble Member and Board President Cymbre Walk Sklar for taking the IAMA cohort on a field trip to Netflix Animation Studios! Tags: @petelaw1975 @hannahabrown @__gabrielacampos__ @maelynvr @elliot_davis

🌟 Announcing the 2024 Rhimes Unsung Voices Playwriting Commission Recipient: Brian Otaño! @brianwritesplays 🌟 Brian is the first IAMA Ensemble Member to be honored with the award! We’re so grateful to Shonda Rhimes and the Rhimes Foundation for their seventh year helping grow and nourish budding playwrights and artists with an emphasis on cultural inclusion, and fresh, creative, thought-provoking work. #IAMAtheatre #ShondaRhimes #RhimesUnsungVoices #playwright #LAthtr #LosAngelesTheatre

👏🤯✨ Give it up for IAMA’s 23/24 16th Mind-Blowing Blowing Season! THANK YOU to our incredible community of artists, audiences, donors, and sponsors for helping us celebrate 16 years of world premiere, thought-provoking, live theatre in Los Angeles! #IAMAtheatre #LAthtr #LosAngeles

📍🗺️ Thanks @officialbroadwayworld! “BRILLIANT, MEDITATIVE, FIERCELY FUNNY AND BRUTALLY HEARTRENDING… a quiet, transformative wonder of a play that you do not want to miss.” — Amanda Callas Only SIX performances remain! The road trip must come to an end 🚗💨 Get tickets @ #LinkInBio #IAMAtheatre #BostonCourtPasadena #LAthtr #losangeles

📍🗺️ Audiences love THE BODY’S MIDNIGHT! Only two weeks left to see this “powerful production.” Get tix @ #LinkInBio #IAMAtheatre #BostonCourtPasadena #LAthtr #LosAngeles

📍🗺️ “A+! POWERFUL!” Join us on “the road trip of life” in THE BODY’S MIDNIGHT (Larchmont Buzz). NOW – May 26 ONLY at Boston Court Pasadena! Get tickets today! #IAMAtheatre #BostonCourtPasadena #LAthtr #LosAngeles

😻And just like that— ARROWHEAD is booked for the season with a SOLD OUT closing weekend! 🙀 Waited too long to get your tix? Our in-person waitlist begins 30 minutes before showtime each night. You might just get lucky! 🤞 #IAMAArrowhead #IAMAtheatre #LAthtr #LosAngeles

😻ARROWHEAD OPENING NIGHT MAGIC😻 Join the party! Catch ARROWHEAD this weekend Saturday 2/10 @ 8pm and Sunday 2/11 @ 2pm 🎭 ARROWHEAD plays at Atwater Village Theatre thru Mar. 4 🔥 Tickets are selling fast! Get yours @ #LinkInBio #IAMAArrowhead #IAMAtheatre #LAthtr #LosAngeles

Thank you for an amazing 2023! ✨

2023 was one for the 📚✨ A sweet trip down memory lane, as we gear up for what’s to come! THANK YOU for joining us! We’ll see you at the theater next year for the world premiere of ARROWHEAD 😻 To support this work before the end of year - donate at #LinkInBio 🌟 #IAMAtheatre #LAthtr #LosAngeles #FlashbackFriday #Recap2023

Happy holidays from IAMA! ❄️ We’re grateful to continuing sharing community with you this year. We’ll see you back at the theater in 2024 for the world premiere of ARROWHEAD! 🐱✨ 📸 World Premiere of RADICAL or, are you gonna miss me? // Photo by Makela Yepez

Support IAMA this #GivingTuesday ✨ Support live theatre and working artists! As a small, non-profit theatre, your tax-deductible gift of any size will make an enormous difference in the future of IAMA. Your gift supports: ∙ Livable artist wages ∙ Development of new works and emerging artists ∙ Arts education and audience outreach programs ∙ Our mission to amplify diverse voices & stories, on stage and off ➡️ Donate here: iamatheatre.com/support #IAMAGrateful #IAMATheatre #NonProfit #LAthtr #theatre