Thursday, November 6, 2025 at 8:00 PM
Redcat, Los Angeles
The 22nd annual [New Original Works](https://www.redcat.org/now25) kicks off with a program of works by Maylee Todd, Jacob Wolff, Diana Wyenn and Ammunition Theatre Company. [*BUY A FESTIVAL PASS! SEE ALL 9 WORKS FOR $50!*](https://ci.ovationtix.com/34348/store/packages) **Maylee Todd** **MOUTH** Part surreal cabaret, part psychological spiral, *MOUTH *is a journey through the chaos of identity and mental health. This boundary-blurring performance fuses music, raw humor, video projections, and inflatable set design to create an unsettling yet ecstatic experience. Highlighting songs from her forthcoming LP, Maylee Todd shapeshifts as she tells stories of attraction, self-doubt, and endurance in a sonic and visual fever dream. **Jacob Wolff** **BEG** In this experimental opera, Jacob Wolff (Music BFA 23) takes up the rodeo clown—a figure who endures physical danger and humiliation for the audience’s entertainment—to consider the tension between performance, risk, and self-deprecation. Incorporating live and pre-recorded electronic music, dance, theater, and improvisation, *BEG* seeks to dissolve the boundaries between performers, audience, and performance space. Ordinary materials like ladders and wood transform into dynamic elements of set design, as movements and tasks set up physical challenges in an exploration of spectacle, sacrifice, and labor. **Diana Wyenn and Ammunition Theatre Company** **I Am an American (via Los Angeles)** What is it to be living in the United States of America today? What are the challenges of participating in a democracy that was built without many of us in mind? Performed by an ensemble whose identities and perspectives reflect the diversity of Los Angeles, this production illuminates the lives of a cross section of Angelenos today. Weaving together autobiographical accounts, song, and spectacle, *I Am an American (via Los Angeles)* is an intimate, honest, and searing look at being in relationship with ideas of America, conceived and directed by Diana Wyenn, and devised with LA-based Ammunition Theatre Company. NOW 2025: Week One* will be presented as one shared program of all three works on Thursday, Friday, and Saturday.* *Please note: *MOUTH *contains mature content and loud sounds; *BEG* contains nudity, mature content, flashing lights, and loud sounds; *I Am an American (via Los Angeles) *contains mature content and flashing lights. * [NOW 2025: Week Two](https://www.redcat.org/events/2025/now/week2) / [NOW 2025: Week Three](https://www.redcat.org/events/2025/now/week3) / [NOW 2025](https://www.redcat.org/now25)