Odyssey Theatre Ensemble

Annie Kahane’s Alive & Well Productions creates theatrical worlds that possess odd but legible logic. The company’s works wonder about collective consciousness, dreamscapes and the potential for live art to create resonance across differences. Kahane founded Alive & Well Productions in 2014. Since then her performance works have been supported by the Hollywood Fringe Festival, the San Francisco International Arts Festival, New Music USA, the Zellerbach Family Foundation, ODC Theater and the Kenneth Rainin Foundation, among others. Her poetry has been featured on multiple NPR stations. She currently teaches at UCLA’s school of World Arts & Cultures/Dance, and in the Theatre Departments at Pepperdine University and CSU Northridge.

Composer Kian Ravaei (b. 1999) takes tone painting to a new level, synthesizing diverse inspirations into evocative musical portraits. Whether he is composing a string quartet inspired by wonders of the natural world, electronic music that evokes the pulsating energy of late-night dance clubs, or a symphonic poem that draws from the Iranian music of his ancestral heritage, he takes listeners on a spellbinding tour of humanity’s most deeply felt emotions.

The 2024-25 season sees a variety of performances, including the premiere of a new orchestral work with Northwest Sinfonietta and conductor Mei-Ann Chen, and a new art song for Fleur Barron and Kunal Lahiry’s Carnegie Hall debut. In a trailblazing collaboration, cross-cultural music collective Bridge to Everywhere and choreographer Annie Kahane will present a new work that combines Persian and Jewish musical and dance traditions.