On the Couch With Nora Armani: Tales of Multicultural Actress-Poet-Storyteller
Fountain Theatre (5060 Fountain Ave Los Angeles, CA 90029)
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The last date listed for On the Couch With Nora Armani was Sunday June 3, 2007 / 2:00pm.
2 Goldstar Member Reviews
Esther E.
Nora Armani is a charming and lovely personality. Her show was very entertaining and we all loved it.Written on May 29 2007
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It was ok but it didn't really touch me as I had expected. Something was definitely missing.Written on May 21 2007
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Quotes & Highlights
- “… the deft, bedazzling Armani creates textured characters and substantial momentum.” --Los Angeles Times
- "Armani proves herself an extremely natural actress and a superb storyteller, more than capable of carrying an evening. She has an air of quiet, unassuming sophistication that gives her an otherworldly, yet approachable girl-nextdoor quality that allows her to cut a commanding stage presence." --TalkingBroadway.com
Description
On the Couch With Nora Armani kicks off the Fountain Theatre's Summer Armenian Theatre Festival and is a tour-de-force performed to worldwide acclaim! Don't miss this funny and touching world view of life from this enchanting Armenian-Egyptian-American actress, poet and storyteller. It's one woman's journey of belonging and not belonging, of being and discovering.
Nora Armani
Nora Armani plays Shakespeare, Shaw, Hammerstein, Molière, Tchekov, Guitry, Labiche, Fatima Gallaire, Tewfik al Hakim, Gunter Grass, and has toured with Sojourn at Ararat internationally in more than 20 cities on four continents in its English and French (Le Chant D’Ararat) versions, together with Gerald Papasian.
Nora has interpreted lead roles in American, French, Czech, Armenian, Lebanese and Egyptian films on screen and on television. Between March 1991 and December 1993, she represented the Ministry of Culture of Armenia as a spokesperson for the promotion of Armenian cinema world wide.
She was invited to Cairo to play the lead role of Anna in the musical The King and I opposite Egyptian stage and TV star Mohamed Sobhi, performed at Radio Theatre in Cairo and broadcast on TV and satellite.
Other works: Nannto Nannto, a stage production of words and music of her co-creation with cellist Aya Sakakibara, which she performed in Paris at the Theatre des Dechargeurs during February 2000, and later in Venice at the Santa Margherita Theatre in August 2000.
Nora is the winner of several awards: two Best Actress awards for Film & Stage Yerevan (Armenia) Festival in 1991, the DramaLogue Award for performance, 1988 (Los Angeles), the Encore DramaLogue Award for performance, 1989 (Los Angeles), and the California Motion Picture Golden Star award, 1985 (Los Angeles). She has been an Honorary Member of the National Theatre of Armenia since 1992. Her most recent award was that of Best Actress for her lead role in "Labyrinth" at the Siunik Film Festival. She holds an M.Sc. from the University of London and a B.A in Sociology and Theatre Acting and Directing from the American University Cairo and UCLA.
Her most recent work as a playwright and performer is On the Couch with Nora Armani, and her recent TV appearance is the series "Friends in Egypt."