Moving Arts - Song of Extinction

Moving Arts is proud to announce
the WORLD PREMIERE of E.M. Lewis'
SONG of EXTINCTION

Max, a musically gifted high school student, is falling off the edge of the world and his biology teacher is the only one who's noticed. SONG OF EXTINCTION is a play about the science of life and loss, the relationships between fathers and sons, Cambodian fields, Bolivian rainforests and redemption.

Max is going to fail Biology if he doesn't complete a 20-page paper on extinction by 2pm on Tuesday but his mother is dying of cancer, and school is the last thing on his mind. His father, a biologist obsessed with saving a rare, threatened Bolivian insect, is incapable of dealing with his wife's impending death, or his son's distress. Max's biology teacher, Khim Phan, tries to figure out why Max is failing the class. Helping Max, however, pushes Khim into a magical journey of his own from the Cambodian fields of his youth into the undiscovered country beyond.

CAST
Darrell Kunitomi
Will Faught
Michael Shutt
Lori Yeghiayan
Tristan Wright
Trey Nichols
Aileen Cho

Directed by Heidi Helen Davis
Produced by Kimberly Glann
Co-Producers Steve Lozier & Cece Tio

Set Design Stephanie Kerley Schwartz
Lighting Design Ian Garrett
Sound Design Jason Duplissea
Costume Design Laura Buckles
Composer Geoffrey Pope
Technical Director James Bray
Stage Manager Jackie Moses
Asst. Stage Manager Kat Namey

E.M. LEWIS
Moving Artist E.M. Lewis' award-winning plays have been produced across the country. She is the winner of the 2008 Francesca Primus Prize for an emerging woman theater artist. In 2007, LA Stage Magazine selected Lewis as one of twelve Los Angeles theater "artists to watch" as two of her full-length plays received their world premieres. HEADS, a hostage drama set against the war in Iraq that Edward Albee called "provocative and wonderfully threatening" - was named one of the top ten productions of 2007 by the LA Times.