Loose Change Productions, founded in 2009, is dedicated to the promotion of transnational, cross-cultural theatre and performance exploring new creative, moral, ethical, and political territories. Loose Change develops works within the company itself and also co-produces in collaboration with outside artists. Our interest is in work that builds innovative structures; we seek stories told theatrically which entertain but still retain the ability to spur social awareness and empathy between cultures.
Says Executive Managing Director Carey Lovelace: “We had long dreamed of creating a company that would go beyond the straightforward narrative favored by current U.S. theatre, taking inspiration from paragons such as the Open Theatre in New York or Theatre du Soleil in France. Formal experimentation, though, does not mean that work cannot be at the same time engaging, amusing, and deeply fulfilling.”
Carey Lovelace (Executive Managing Director)
is a playwright and arts writer. She has founded or directed numerous arts-related programs and organizations; most recently, she was co-president of the International Association of Art Critics, US Chapter, the nation’s largest organization of art writers. During this time, she co-organized the highly successful and first-ever three-day-long National Critics Conference in Los Angeles in 2005, which brought together 500 arts writers across disciplines. She has organized seminars, panels, colloquia, and performance series at or for Movement Research, PS1-MoMA, the Bronx Museum of the Arts, the New York Public Library, the Parrish Museum, the Guggenheim Museum, and New York University. At Ensemble Studio Theatre, between 1999 and 2007, she co-produced numerous shows in collaboration with Citylab and the SPF Lab. She has a degree in music composition from California Institute of the Arts and was a co-founder of the Independent Composers Association, the Los Angeles Symposium of Women Composers, and Simultaneous Arts & Co, which toured Europe with visually oriented avant-garde musical works. As a playwright, she has had productions at Ensemble Studio Theatre and the BMI Lehman Engel Musical Theatre Workshop (New York City); the Bay Street Theatre (Sag Harbor, NY); the Alleyway Theatre (Buffalo, NY); Stageworks (Kinderhook, NY); and at REDCAT Theatre and First Stage (Los Angeles), among many locales. She has been a finalist, semi-finalist, and won honorable mentions in numerous competitions, including the Maxim Mazundar One-Act Play Competition and the Samuel French One-Act Festival.
Michelle Karem (General Manager)
has worked in the theatre as an actor, dancer, and choreographer. She received her BFA in theatre from the Tisch School of the Arts New York University with a double major in English Literature. She was a member of the acclaimed Stanley Love Dance Company from 2004 to 2006 and was pivotal in creating the Harold Clurman Center for Movement and Dance. She has performed several new movementheatre works with the group.
Dorotea Mendoza (Financial Coordinator)
is a writer, political economist and activist, who immigrated to New York City from the Philippines in 1984. From 1993 through 2008, she served as secretary general and board member of GABRIELA Network, a Philippine-U.S. women’s solidarity organization. She currently works with a collective of women writers and artists that advocates for social change through cultural work and with BABAE (Bridging Assistance, Building Advocacy and Empowerment), an educational and direct service organization for Filipina victims and survivors of domestic violence and trafficking.
