NOW 2025: Week One
Maylee Todd, Jacob Wolff, Diana Wyenn and Ammunition Theatre Company
WORLD PREMIERE
- Price
- $25*
- Genres
- Dance, Music, Theater
- Season
- Fall 2025
- DATE
- NOV 6-8
- IN-PERSON
- THU-SAT, 8 PM
- STREAM
- SAT, 8 PM (PT)
- RUNTIME
- Approx. 90 minutes, with intermission
- PROGRAM
- Not yet available
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The 22nd annual New Original Works kicks off with a program of works by Maylee Todd, Jacob Wolff, Diana Wyenn and Ammunition Theatre Company.
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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.
NOW 2025: Week One will be presented as one shared program of all three works on Thursday, Friday, and Saturday.
Please note: MOUTH contains mature content and loud sounds; BEG contains nudity, mature content, flashing lights, and loud sounds; I Am an American (via Los Angeles) contains mature content and flashing lights.
Maylee Todd acknowledges the support of the Canada Council for the Arts.
about the artistS
Maylee Todd is a Los Angeles-based interdisciplinary artist, performer, and musician known for blending science fiction, music, and technology into emotionally raw and often absurd multimedia experiences. Her work spans experimental pop, brainwave-driven sound design, motion capture, and character-based performance exploring themes of mental health, identity, gender, and cultural programming. With releases on Stones Throw Records and performances across North America, Europe, and Asia, Todd has created immersive shows like Virtual Womb, Musical Planetarium, and MALOO, a sci-fi album and avatar series. Todd’s work resonates with feminist, queer, and diasporic audiences, often pushing the boundaries of live performance through humor, spectacle, and vulnerability. Whether through inflatable stage sets or avatar doubles, she creates intimate, surreal worlds that invite audiences into psychological terrain.
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Jacob Wolff is an artist, performer, composer, and director from Long Beach, CA, currently based in Los Angeles. His work centers on deconstructing the operatic form through solo and ensemble performances, often incorporating improvisation and blending various disciplines including dance and theater. Past pieces including Ribs (2023) and My Blue Raspberry (2024) aimed to explore and dismantle the dynamics between audience and performer, as well as the relationships with the spaces they inhabit. A CalArts graduate (Music BFA 23), Wolff has shown work at Stomping Ground LA, Highways Performance Space, and other DIY and gallery spaces in Los Angeles.
Diana Wyenn is a director, choreographer, and creative producer committed to social justice and artistic innovation. Her work spans theater, opera, and film, exploring themes of trauma, healing, equity, disability, and environmental justice. She has directed and choreographed for prominent organizations in the US and abroad, including Center Theatre Group, LA Phil, Roundabout Theatre Company, Detroit Opera, Malmö Opera, ASU Gammage, and the World Health Organization. Her award-winning autobiographical solo performance Blood/Sugar and co-devised production Kristina Wong for Public Office are testaments to her ability to transform personal experiences into powerful, socially conscious art. A cofounder of Plain Wood Productions and Co-Artistic Director of Ammunition Theatre Company, Wyenn holds a BFA with Honors from NYU.
Founded in 2014, Ammunition Theatre Company (AMMO) was born of a desire to explore the meaning of identity in an ever-changing America, accelerate representation in the arts, and shift mainstream storytelling toward diverse perspectives. To achieve this, AMMO has been producing plays and readings for over a decade, receiving critical praise and nominations for Ovation, Stage Raw, and LA Drama Critics Awards. Diverse by design from the beginning, AMMO is a collective of artists and activists who not only create theater but also partner with philanthropic organizations to share it to under-served communities. AMMO’s focus is on developing new works by underrepresented artists—sparking culturally relevant conversations and actions to support and foster healthier relationships and communities.
