VAN NUYS : Students to Mount Skit at Inauguration

By HENRY CHU

Jan. 7, 1993 12 AM PT

A group of drama students and alumni from Van Nuys High School has been invited to perform an original skit about the Los Angeles riots at the inauguration of President-elect Bill Clinton later this month in Washington.

The performers, who range in age from 15 to 20, were invited to present “One Day in L. A.” during the inaugural festivities after being spotted last month on a telecast produced by The Walt Disney Co. The telecast honored Van Nuys High drama instructor Robin Share as one of the nation’s top 36 teachers.

The 16 youths are all past and present students of Share, who wrote “One Day in L. A.” The seven-minute vignette will be performed the day before the Jan. 20 inauguration as part of “Celebration for Youth,” an event publicist said.

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Henry Chu

Henry Chu first joined the Los Angeles Times in 1990 and worked primarily out of the San Fernando Valley office before moving to the foreign staff in 1998. He served as bureau chief in Beijing from 1998 to 2003, Rio de Janeiro from 2004 to 2005, New Delhi from 2006 to 2008 and London from 2009 to 2014. He was a 2014-15 fellow at the Nieman Foundation for Journalism at Harvard. From 2016-19 he was international editor at Variety magazine. A graduate of Harvard University, Chu returned to The Times in March 2020 as deputy news editor based in London. He left in 2024.

VAN NUYS : Students to Mount Skit at Inauguration

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