Addie Daddio and Erik Kilpatrick are currently in rehearsal for the West Coast premiere of Levy Lee Simon’s award winning play "The Bow Wow Club."

Photos by Amanda Aardsma

“The Bow Wow Club” open’s Friday September 8th through Saturday, October 15th at the
Stella Adler Theatre
6773 Hollywood Blvd
Hollywood, CA 90028
Tickets available at www.plays411.com/thebowow
Info: (323) 960-5521

The Bow Wow Club is about friendship, love, responsibility, and survival. After almost 20 years, five teenage friends reunite and are forced to choose between their differences or the power of their lifelong bond.

Levy Lee Simon weaves a riveting tale of what happened to
The Bow Wow Club once they left the security of the insecure streets of Harlem. The show portray’s their hopes, dreams, disappointments, successes and the shocking changes that take place in their lives. Each one of these Dawg's has looked for acceptance and compromise in a modern world that has proven to be as big an adversary as the rival gang's of their youth.

The Bow Wow Club was the recipient of the prestigious Lorraine Hansberry Award for Best Full Length Play awarded by the ACTF and the Kennedy Center.

Directed by Dan Martin
the Los Angeles Cast of The Bow Wow Club also includes:
John Marshall Jones, Nancy Cheryll Davis,Freedom,
Mamie-Louise Anderson, Terry Ellis, Larry B. Scott,Amanda Aardsma,
J.Todd Howell, Lynne Conner-Smith, Lyn Ross




ABOUT THE PLAYWRIGHT: LEVY LEE SIMON is originally from Harlem, an award winning playwright, actor, and screenwriter. He holds an MFA from the University of Iowa's Playwright's Workshop and is the author of over twenty plays which have been produced and read in theatres around the country. Most notably, his award nominated trilogy FOR THE LOVE OF FREEDOM, about the Haitian Revolution co- produced by Danny Glover's Robey Theatre and the Greenway Arts Alliance, directed by Ben Guillory. Other notable plays by Simon include The Bow-Wow Club, 'Lorraine Hansberry Award' Best Full Length Play, Same Train OBBR Award 2004, the critically acclaimed God the Crackhouse and the Devil, CASELOAD, The Stuttering Preacher, DAD, The Drama That Was Us, The Guest at Central Park West, Wolves Over Hollywood, Letters from the Pen, The Trial of Superfly, The Real Roxanne, and more. As an actor, Levy Lee has performed On Broadway, Off-Broadway, in regional theatres around the country, England, and the Caribbean. He is a former member of Ernie McClintok's African American Studio, The Negro Ensemble Company and Circle Rep.