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Title: Celebration Theatre collection
Dates: 1982-2007
Collection number: Coll2007-017
Collector:
ONE National Gay and Lesbian
Archives
Collection Size: 5 records boxes, 3 archive
cartons, 1 archive half-cartons, 1 oversize box and 1 oversize lobby
card. 7.4 linear feet.
Repository:
ONE National Gay and Lesbian Archives.
Los Angeles, California 90007
Abstract: Early executive committee minutes, performance
budgets, programs, flyers, press kits, photographs, correspondence, and
newspaper clippings, including reviews, documenting the activities of the
Celebration Theatre, 1982-2006. The collection consists of materials from the
collections of Jim Kepner, the first Vice Chairman, of Robert Schrock, a former
artistic director, and of the Purple Circuit, an information clearinghouse for
gay and lesbian theater, founded by Bill Kaiser.
Languages: Languages represented in the collection:
English
The collection is open to researchers. There are no access
restrictions.
Researchers wishing to publish materials must obtain permission in
writing from ONE National Gay and Lesbian Archives as the physical owner.
Researchers must also obtain clearance from the holder(s) of any copyrights in
the materials. Note that ONE National Gay and Lesbian Archives can grant
copyright clearance only for those materials for which we hold the copyright.
It is the responsibility of the researcher to obtain copyright clearance for
all other materials directly from the copyright holder(s).
Box #, folder #, Celebration Theatre Collection, Coll2007-017, ONE
National Gay and Lesbian Archives, Los Angeles, California.
Records collected by Bill Kaiser and from the collections of Jim Kepner
and Robert Schrock.
The collection was formerly housed in box 103-006, in folders of the
Performing Arts Collection (Coll2007-016), and in the collection Robert
Schrock. Collection processed by Michael C. Oliveira, with the assistance of
Jim D. Deaton and Sócrates Silva, in
December 2007; in February 2008, materials
relating to the Celebration Theatre reclaimed from the Gay & Lesbian Drama
Scripts Collection (Coll2008-003) and returned to the Celebration Theatre
collection.
Collection was transferred to records boxes and finding aid revised
during July 2008.
Processing this collection has been funded by a generous grant from the
National Historical Publications and Records Commission.
Celebration Theatre incorporated in 1982 as a community theater to
celebrate the positive creative and cultural aspects of the gay and lesbian
community of greater Los Angeles. The theater has been in continuous operation
since its first production in Jim Kepner's National Gay Archives located on
North Hudson Street in Hollywood. The theater later rented space in the Scorpio
Theatre on Hoover Street in the Silverlake neighborhood of Los Angeles before
moving to a West Hollywood-adjacent location on Santa Monica Boulevard in Los
Angeles.
Scope and Content of Collection
The collection contains early executive board minutes, budgets,
performance flyers and programs collected from the theater's inception by Jim
Kepner. It also contains records collected from 1985 by Bill Kaiser, first in
his role as promotions director and and later for his performing arts
information clearing house, the Purple Circuit, as well as performance and
administrative documents of former artistic director Robert Schrock.
The collection is arranged into three series: Administrative Records,
Theatrical Performances, and Memorabilia. The arrangement of the administrative
records reflects the order in which they were found. The theatrical performance
files are arranged alphabetically by play or performance title. The documents
of multiple short plays or one-acts performed as a show are arranged
alphabetically under the performance title followed by a list of the individual
plays and playwrights.
The following terms have been used to index the description of this
collection in the library's online public access catalog.
Celebration theatre
Comedy
Drag shows
Drama
Gay actors
Gay dramatists
Gay theater
Historical drama
Homosexuality and theater
Homosexuality in the theater
Kaiser, Bill, 1950-
Kepner, Jim (James),
1923-1997
Lesbian actresses
Lesbian dramatists
Lesbian theater
Monologue
One-act plays
Performing artists
Radical theater
Theater
Schrock, Robert
Stage adaptations
Abrami, Robert
Adams, Joseph K.
Alfaro, Luis
Allen, Claudia
Amzen, Nic
Appalloosa, Rex
Araiza, Albert Antonio
Baker, John Roman
Barnett, Robert
Bateman, Lane (pseudonym L. Lane)
Beard, Tom
Bedonna, Isaac
Bentley, Eric
Besecker, Joe
Besset, Jean-Maire
Beswick, Jordan Sidney
Beverly, Nancy
Bierman, Bruce
Black, Laura
Bly, Majorie
Bock, Adam
Boehnlein, Frank
Boito, David
Bommer, Lawrence
Buford, Loren
Callahan, John
Cariello, Christopher
Casey, Mary F.
Chambers, Jane
Chandler, Kate
Cherryholmes, H. L.
Chesley, Robert
Cohen, Jaffee
Cotter, Patricia
Cronin, Harry
Crowe, Bill
Cruz, Migdalia
Cunningham, Eric
Daniels, Sarah
del Valle, Peter
Dickler, Gloria
Disner, Don
Dreher, Sarah
Elizabeth, Maire
Epperson, John
Fairchild, Mark S.
Fell, Blair
Foley, Rudy Thomas
Forrest, Pamela
Fulford, Robin
Galligan, David
Gardner, Layce
Giantvalley, Scott
Gilbert, William S.
Goldstein, Robert
Golvin, Sandra
Gray, Pamela
Green, Wayne
Greer, Michael
Grieg, Noël
Griffith, Drew
Griffith, Drew
Grimsley, Jim
Hagedorn, Jeff
Hall, Richard
Hampton, Christopher
Hanes, Ken
Harding, Alex
Harris, Larry Dean
Harry, Phillip Brooks
Harry, Robert Stephen
Hoffman, Keith
Hoffman, Ken
Holsclaw, Doug
Honnet, Mark
Hughes, Holly
Jackson, Colette
Jacobs, Jason
Jacobson, Tom
Jones, Ross
Kane, Patricia
Kaufman, Moises
Kearns, Michael
Keegan, Tom
Kelly, Tim
Kinchi, John
Kluger, Steve
Knoll, Jim
Kramer, George
Kulp, Laurence R.
Lane, L. (pseudonym for Lane Bateman)
Leigh-Coleman, Denis
Littell, Phillip
Lloyd, Davidson
Lord, Albert
Lotman, Loretta
Ludlam, Charles, 1943-1987
Lynch, Lee
McClellan, Michael
McLane, Robert
Macofsky, Tod
Martin, William
Masterson, Kelly
Mello, Rob
Miller, Isabel
Miller, Patti R.
Miller, Susan
Milliner, Todd
Mitchell, Kevin M.
Montley, Patricia
Moore, Pauline
Moore, Steven
Moraga, Cherrie
Moskowitz, Jerome
Motel, Doug
Mullen, Claudia
Nagy, Phyllis
Nanin, Odalys
O'Hara, Robert
O'Neil, Tom
Palacios, Monica
Patrick, Robert
Paul, Rick
Peters, Robert
Pfanner, Jim
Picket, James Caroll
Pinter, Harold
Pliura, Vytautas
Podolsky, Robin
Prestininzi, Ken
Pulner, Alan
Rabushka, Jerry
Racelis, Felix
Ranberg, Chuck
Ranson, Rebecca
Ravenhill, Mark
Real, Philip
Reconco, Oscar
Reyes, Guillermo
Roome, Douglas
Rosen, Sybil
Ross, Justin
Rubin, Amy
Sadownick, Doug
Sanchez, Edwin
Savage, Mark
Schiowitz, Josh
Schoenfeld, Jeff
Schrock, Robert
Seppala, Eric
Shairp, Mordaunt
Sheiness, Marsha
Shere, Michael Stuart
Shinn, Christopher
Simpson, Marita
Smith, G. Bruce
Smith, Scott Edward
Snyder, David
Sofronski, Ken
Somsen, Pennell
Specchio, Jake
Spillers, Michael
Stampalia, Giancarlo
Sterner, Steve
Stewart-Brown, Christi
Stowe, Ayofemi
Sullivan, Arthur
Swanson, Jim
Terrell, Dan Martin
Tower, Michael Thomas
Trasandes, Monica
Upton, Phyllis
Van Duzer, Michael
Vanatta, J. S.
Velazquez, G.
Vertucci, June
Vincent, Barry
Ward, Bruce
Waren, Mark Grant
Weathers, Carolyn
Wells, Win
Winkler, Mark
Winslow, Christopher
Witt, Michael
Wolcott, Peyton
Wolman, Karen Dale
Yew, Chay
ZeOeh, Ruchele