Thank you to everyone for giving us packed houses at every performance of 3 Truths!

After four years, six plays, and over 150 community artists, the Justice Cycle closed with a bang...thank you for taking the journey with us, Los Angeles!

Written by NAOMI IIZUKA
Directed by MICHAEL JOHN GARCÉS
June 4-12 at California Plaza in downtown L.A.

Presented by Cornerstone Theater Company and Grand Performances, nationally-celebrated playwright Naomi IIzuka’s 3 Truths weaves together a sprawling cast of Angelenos from all walks of life all asking one question: What Is The Truth?

As L.A.’s landmark Hall of Justice stands in the distance, Cornerstone Theater Company transforms downtown’s California Plaza into a dramatic judicial arena where fates are decided and lives hang in the balance. As laws have the power to separate and confine us, we come together in our quest to uncover three truths: your truth, my truth, and the truth.

Directed by Michael John Garcés, this epic world premiere event is the culminating “bridge” show of Cornerstone’s Justice Cycle, a four-year multi-play exploration of how laws shape and disrupt communities. Immediately following each performance, audience members are invited to join in dialogue with L.A.’s important civic and cultural leaders as they come together to discuss urgent issues of justice facing our city and beyond. Check back here or at GrandPerformances.org for more information about all post-show civic dialogues.

NAOMI IIZUKA

Naomi was born in Tokyo and raised in Japan, Indonesia, Holland, and Washington, D.C. Her play, Concerning Strange Devices from the Distant West, premiered at Berkeley Rep earlier this year.  Her other plays include: 36 Views, Anon(ymous), Hamlet: Blood in the Brain, At The Vanishing Point, Polaroid Stories, Language of Angels, Tattoo Girl, Aloha, Say the Pretty Girls, and Skin.  Her plays have been produced by the Goodman Theatre, the Guthrie Theatre, Actors’ Theatre of Louisville, the Children’s Theatre Company, the Kennedy Center for Performing Arts, the Huntington Theater, Berkeley Rep, GeVa, Portland Center Stage, the Public Theatre, Campo Santo + Intersection for the Arts, the Dallas Theatre Center, the Brooklyn Academy of Music’s “Next Wave Festival”, Soho Rep, and the Edinburgh Festival, and workshopped at Sundance Theatre Lab, Hedgebrook, Midwest PlayLabs, the the Public Theater’s New Works Now, PS 122, Manhattan Theatre Club,  and JAW at Portland Center Stage.  Her plays have been published by TCG, Smith and Kraus, Heineman, Playscripts, Theatre Forum, and American Theater. She is currently working on commissions from Intiman Theatre, the Huntington Theater, Yale Rep, the La Jolla Playhouse, and Children’s Theatre Company.  Naomi is an alumna of New Dramatists and the recipient of a Howard Foundation Fellowship, a PEN/Laura Pels Award, an Alpert Award, a Joyce Foundation Award, a Whiting Writers’ Award, a Stavis Award from the National Theatre Conference, a Rockefeller Foundation MAP grant, an NEA/TCG Artist in Residence grant, a McKnight Fellowship, a PEN Center USA West Award for Drama, Princeton University’s Hodder Fellowship, and a Jerome Fellowship.  She heads the graduate MFA Playwriting program at the University of California, San Diego.