SAN DIEGO, Calif. — Scripps Ranch Theatre, located on the campus of Alliant International University, presents their fifth Annual Out on a Limb – New Plays from America’s Finest City, for two weekends, July 14-17 and July 21-24.
Scripps Ranch Theatre is a leader in the Southern California Arts Community in developing and producing new plays. The festival features all new, world premiere plays written by area playwrights.
One featured play at this year’s festival is “On Air,” written by Armenian American playwright, Lisa Kirazian. In “On Air,” a young Armenian-American professor at a San Diego community college navigates his family obligations and professional ambitions against the backdrop of a campus in crisis from the Vietnam War.
San Diego Critics Circle Award-winning Equity actor, Jeffrey Jones, also of Armenian heritage, will appear in “On Air,” in the leading role.
In addition to “On Air,” Kirazian’s plays include “The Blackstone Sessions,” “Switch,” “The Visitor,” “Soul Fire,” “Six Views” and “Armenian Voices,” with productions in Los Angeles, San Diego and New York. Her publications include pieces in Audition Monologues for Young Women, Los Angeles Times, San Diego Union Tribune, Performing Arts Magazine, and The Dramatist. Lisa is a San Diego native and Stanford graduate. She blogs about writing at lisakirazian.wordpress.com and her website is www.lisakirazian.com.
