Photo Credits: EpicMegaPro, collaborators, JUNK musicians and performers in the workshop process. Photos by Justin Winokur. Header Photo: Kien Shimabukuro, Michele Cavallero and Jonathan Corps in JUNK: A Rock Opera. Photo by Andy Windack. © Epic Mega Pro. All Rights Reserved

LATEST NEWS January 2009 From Sweden Productions joins with EpicMegaPro and Brainpool on the JUNK project. More information soon to come! EpicMegaPro Artistic Director, Shakina Nayfack, travels to Sweden to work with Brainpool on writing 3 new songs and 9 recitatives for JUNK. See the extended clips below... December 2009 Cosa Rara workshop presented to sold-out audiences at Highways Performance Space in Santa Monica. November 2009 EpicMegaPro announces collaboration with performance artist April Hava Shankman for a new work commissioned for Watts Village Theatre's Meet Me @ The Metro Project. July 2009 EpicMegaPro finalizes completes play development workshop on Use of Weapons, a fast- paced anti-war drama written by company affiliate, Sean Meyer. The intensive, month-long process allows the playwright additional time than typical workshops. May 2009 EpicMegaPro presents JUNK: A Rock Opera at Urban Stages in New York City. Broadway producers provide important feedback through surveys and post-reading meetings. MISSION STATEMENT Epic Megalopolis Productions (EpicMegaPro) was founded to support the development of new work for the stage and to produce innovative and socially relevant material for a new generation of theatergoers. As a company, we place as much value on the integrity and ingenuity of the creative process as we dedicate toward any finished production. We believe in working in community, and maintaining a receptive, rewarding work environment that encompasses administration, performers, designers, technicians, staff, crew and volunteers. We stand for producing timely art and, as much as possible, providing a living wage for our artists. We strive to enhance social and political awareness, for our audiences and ourselves, through entertainment that engages critical thought and reflects the complexity of the 21st century. EpicMegaPro’s largest project is currently JUNK: A Rock Opera, a social satire set to a full rock score, with the music and the message audiences across generations have triumphantly supported: “There must be more to life than this!”