FROM THE BOARD OF DIRECTORS

OF
THE LATINO THEATER COMPANY

The Board of Directors of the Latino Theater Company would like to reassure everyone that everything is being done to work constructively and amicably with the City of Los Angeles to resolve any and all issues arising from our current lease situation regarding our home at the Los Angeles Theatre Center.

Regardless of the outcome, the Latino Theater Company is committed to its mission of creating world-class theater, producing unique, multi-cultural work that reflects the diverse communities of our great city and providing a place where the voices of some of the most brilliant and talented writers, actors and directors in the world can be heard, and we intend to continue do so.

Since moving into the Los Angeles Theatre Center six years ago, the Latino Theater Company has complied with almost every term and condition under our lease with the City of Los Angeles. As an important part of the downtown revitalization, we have spent $4.3 million renovating and restoring the Los Angeles Theatre Center building to its original grandeur, plus invested more than $6 million to create hundreds of jobs, conduct educational programs that help underserved children to participate in summer classes and learn the theater arts and to entertain tens of thousands with critically acclaimed plays and dramatic and comedic works. For several years now during the holiday season, the Latino Theater Company has presented a beautiful production of La Virgen de Guadalupe, Dios Inanztin. It is provided free of admission at the Cathedral of Our Lady of Angels for thousands of people who would otherwise never have the chance to see such an inspiring and spectacular piece of theater.

With all of your help and support, the Latino Theater Company looks forward to furthering our mission as we present our 2012 theater seasons with such powerful productions as The Vault Ensemble’s “Bankrupt” with more downtown L.A. stories; Playwrights’ Arena’s “The Girl Most Likely To” by Filipino-American playwright Michael Premsrirat about a boy who wants to live as a girl; Latino Theater Company’s “Charity: Part III of A Mexican Trilogy” that follows the diaspora of Mexicans in the U.S. from the Mexican Revolution to the present; Marcus Gardley’s “the road weeps, the well runs dry” in collaboration with the Lark Play Development Center in New York about Seminole Indians and African Americans, “Refugee Nation” by TeAda productions about Laotian refugees and their descendants, Celeste Bedford Walker’s African-American military drama “Camp Logan” produced by Robey Theater Company, and Lisa Loomer’s “Café Vida” about the Homegirl Café, a Cornerstone Theater Production.

We deeply appreciate the tremendous outpouring of support we have already received and want to thank our funders, sponsors, patrons and the community at large, as well as our colleagues in the theater, arts and entertainment communities. If you would like to show your support, we ask that you please write or email your comments to The Honorable Herb Wesson, President of the Los Angeles City Council or to the Council Person from your district. Contact information is at:

http://www.lacity.org/YourGovernment/CityCouncil/index.htm