By

Mohammed Abuain
This past week, I attended a performance of Azad, starring writer, performer and co-director Sona Tatoyan, and I can confidently say that I left the playhouse a changed person. Entering the Pico Playhouse lobby for the showing, I wasn’t quite sure what to expect, as I had a loose idea of the performance. From what I read...
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Episode Description Sona Tatoyan is a first-generation Syrian-Armenian-American actor/writer/producer with bases in Los Angeles, Berlin, Syria, and Armenia.   Bridging cultures and having experienced numerous wars, her wisdom runs deep and her stories are captivating.    In 2019 she traveled to her family’s home in Syria which had been abandoned following the 2011 Syrian civil war. There she discovered...
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Five performances April 21-23 with Bill Pullman hosting talkback on April 23. During the darkest of times, surprise discoveries of childhood joy can allow the sunshine in on even the bleakest of situations. And with Ukrainian refugees in the news daily, when I heard about Sona Tatoyan‘s Multimedia Theatrical Experience Azad (“free” in Armenian) which offers...
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LA-based writer and actor Sona Tatoyan located her great-great-grandfather’s shadow puppets, and will use them in a stage performance called ‘Azad.’ L.A.-based actor and writer Sona Tatoyan traveled to her family’s abandoned home in Aleppo, Syria with a mission. Tatoyan was searching for the shadow puppets that her great-great-grandfather used in his performances a century...
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