The Roy and Edna Disney CalARTS Theater (REDCAT) presents the 22nd annual New Original Works (NOW) festival, a celebration of innovative performing arts by Los Angeles artists. Since the inaugural edition in 2004, REDCAT’s NOW festival has served as a catalyst for experimentation and new work in the performing arts. NOW 2025 features nine new original works in dance, theater, music, and performance presented over three weeks from November 6-22. 

Schedule:

Maylee Todd, Jacob Wolff, Diana Wyenn and Ammunition Theatre Company

Maylee Todd
MOUTH

Part surreal cabaret, part psychological spiral, MOUTH is a journey through the chaos of identity and mental health. This boundary-blurring performance fuses music, raw humor, video projections, and inflatable set design to create an unsettling yet ecstatic experience. Highlighting songs from her forthcoming LP, Maylee Todd shapeshifts as she tells stories of attraction, self-doubt, and endurance in a sonic and visual fever dream.

Jacob Wolff
BEG

In this experimental opera, Jacob Wolff (Music BFA 23) takes up the rodeo clown—a figure who endures physical danger and humiliation for the audience’s entertainment—to consider the tension between performance, risk, and self-deprecation. Incorporating live and pre-recorded electronic music, dance, theater, and improvisation, BEG seeks to dissolve the boundaries between performers, audience, and performance space. Ordinary materials like ladders and wood transform into dynamic elements of set design, as movements and tasks set up physical challenges in an exploration of spectacle, sacrifice, and labor. 

Diana Wyenn and Ammunition Theatre Company
I Am an American (via Los Angeles)

What is it to be living in the United States of America today? What are the challenges of participating in a democracy that was built without many of us in mind? Performed by an ensemble whose identities and perspectives reflect the diversity of Los Angeles, this production illuminates the lives of a cross section of Angelenos today. Weaving together autobiographical accounts, song, and spectacle, I Am an American (via Los Angeles) is an intimate, honest, and searing look at being in relationship with ideas of America, conceived and directed by Diana Wyenn, and devised with LA-based Ammunition Theatre Company.

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