Role: Producer

Vahe Berberian, with his long, soft-gray, braided hair and strong, angular features immediately attracts attention. But, it is his personality and his work that captures peoples’ hearts. Vahé Berberian is an Armenian painter, author, playwright and actor. Born in Beirut, Lebanon in 1955 and relocated to Los Angeles in 1976. Vahé has studied art in both Lebanon and the United States, receiving a degree in journalism with honors in 1980. Vahé has participated in more than 30 individual and group exhibitions throughout the United States, Canada, Europe and the Middle East. Berberian has always painted as a complement to writing and acting, never able to forfeit one form of art for another. “Theatre is conditional on what others do, and its temporality is limiting, whereas painting is personal, direct and does not need a mediator. However, each form feeds on the other, pushing its influence into the world of the other.” Vahe Berberian’s literal work includes the novels, “Hanoun Hor Yev Vortvo” and “Namagner Zaataren” and the plays, “Pink Elephant” and the recently staged, “Baron Garbis.”

Before Tigran started studying piano in his native Armenia, he began to teach himself accordion when he was seven years old. He later took up cello, and was admitted to The Tigran Chukajian Music School, where he studied cello with Tiruhi Sargisian. After three years, he began to study piano as a secondary instrument under the guidance of Kathia Sahakian. He was soon honored with an unprecedented invitation to perform at the school's piano concert. By the time he graduated from the Chukajain School in 1988, Tigran had for many years, since the age of twelve, been playing accordion professionally all over Armenia. \

Stepan Partamian is the founder of the Armenian Arts Fund, a Los Angeles-based nonprofit organization that promotes artistic excellence in several disciplines.\

Sofi Devoyan’s Soul and Dance Theatre is a cultural center where children are taught Armenian national and traditional dances, choreography as well as history of art, theatre and ethics.\