Monica Miklas

Creative Leader of Live Experiences | Experiential Director + Producer

Role: Creative Producer Writer Co-founder at Capital W
Location: Los Angeles, CA, US
LinkedIn followers: 500 followers

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About Monica Miklas

I\'m a dynamic creative leader with 15 years of experience delighting audiences through…

Experience

Creative Producer Writer Co-founder
Capital W
Jan 2015 — Present · Los Angeles, CA, US
Capital W is a radical theatre collaboration that produces intimate, immersive, and site-specific performances. We have been commissioned by the Denver Center for the Performing Arts and our work has appeared in IndieCade, the Denver Film Festival, the Hollywood Fringe Festival, and the San Diego International Fringe Festival.In 2020, we adapted our work to respond to the pandemic moment, utilizing both technology and public lands in our region to create emotionally impactful audience experiences. Two shows I wrote and performed debuted that year: Fire Season, an in-person, socially-distanced exploration of climate change, and Dive, a remote bath meditation that was part of our What Do You Need? series.Capital W is always open to ideas for creative collaboration.

Education

Stanford University
B.A., Sociology, Spanish & Portuguese
2005 — 2009
California State University, Long Beach
MBA/MFA, Theatre Management
2012 — 2015

Skills

Production Managment
Entertainment
Festivals
Stage
Stage Management
Volunteer Management
Editing
Comedy
Social Media
Facebook
Writing
Marketing
Theatre
Musical Theatre
Dramaturgy
Sketch Comedy
Script Coverage
Event Management
Musical Theatre Producing
Event Planning
Theatre Producing
Publicity
Producing
Public Speaking
Fundraising

Contact information

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Current company

Capital W

Performing Arts · 12 employees

Capital W is a radical theater collaboration that creates experiential art. We open portals to fundamental aspects of the Human Experience in order to create a more compassionate world. We push beyond the boundaries of what is considered theater, story, and art into a realm of experience and feeling. Our work is a collaboration with our audiences. They do not only watch; they touch, smell, listen, speak, act, feel, and co-write each show. We create communities for an evening, opening a fertile space to look at truth, consider possibility, and ask the vital questions about our time: Who am I? How do we connect with one another? What is our impact on the world? Audiences emerge with a lived experience of vulnerability and empathy, spurring them to act with compassion for themselves, others, and the world. Our work takes place in vans, bath tubs, museums, bars, nature, your house, other people’s houses, and anywhere people exist. We overlay imagined worlds onto real-life environments, and use familiar social scripts to usher audiences into the magic circle. We play with emotion and vulnerability; by training performers to listen deeply to each audience member, we make it safe for participants to engage fully with the work. Original writing, at turns lyric and naturalistic, is at the heart of our work. We use tools from a variety of traditions, including site-specific theater, storytelling, music, happenings, conversation, ritual, and improvisation, to co-create experiences with our audiences. The interaction between the audience and the work is mediated through touch, eye contact, or conversation with performers. It can be kinetic and embodied. The audience is often called upon to contribute stories, text, and movement. We are drawn to stories of identity, sociology, intimacy and relationships, spirituality, ecology, sexuality, grief, and healing.

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About Monica Miklas

Experience

Creative Producer Writer Co-founder

Education

Stanford University

California State University, Long Beach

Skills

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