HERPES: A LOVE STORY by Cherise Pascual

SHOWTIMES
Thursday 6/1, 9:30pm*
Thursday 6/8, 10:30pm
Sunday 6/11, 7:00pm
Friday 6/16, 7:30pm
Friday 6/23, 9:30pm

SHORT SYNOPSIS
An interactive, multimedia, one woman musical comedy about how having herpes saved my life. Join me, as we relive my bad choices through musical parodies, awkward dance moves and conversations with all the people in my head (real and imaginary), and see how having herpes taught me to love myself. WARNING: Since the show takes place in my vagina, you will get wet 🙂

ARTISTIC TEAM
Written, produced and performed by: Cherise Pascual
Directed and developed by: Jessica Lynn Johnson

WEBSITE:
hff17.org/4505
herpesalovestory.com

SOCIAL MEDIA:
Twitter, FB, IG, SnapChat @herpeslovestory
#spreadthelove #fuckthestigma #infectiouslyfunny #breakoutcomedy #mustgoviral

Why We Become Witches
Adapted from the novel Lolly Willowes by Sylvia Townsend Warner
by Kate Motzenbacker and Sal Nicolazzo

This occult comedy of manners follows Laura Willowes, a spinster, as she does everything possible to get her family to leave her alone – including making a deal with Satan.

Adapted from the 1926 novel Lolly Willowes; or The Loving Huntsman by Sylvia Townsend Warner, this bone-dry comedy is a rallying cry for women who’ve done more than their fair share of emotional labor and a celebration of the joys of solitude.

Starring Lisa K. Wyatt (@LisaKWyatt)
Directed by Kate Motzenbacker (@Motzenbacker)
Produced by Dana Leigh Lyman (@DanaLeighLyman)
50-minute runtime
Thursday 6/1 8:00 pm, Friday 6/9 9:30 pm, Sunday 6/11 9:30 pm, Thursday 6/15 11:00 pm, Sunday 6/18 2:00 pm, Friday 6/23 9:00 pm, Sunday 6/25 noon

http://www.hollywoodfringe.org/projects/4700

WE ARE NOT THESE HANDS by Sheila Callaghan begins performances at 10pm on June 2nd and continues on Fri 6/9 at 10pm, Thurs 6/15 at 9:30pm, Fri 6/16 at 8pm, Sun 6/18 at 7pm, Wed. 6/21 8pm, Fri 6/23 at 10pm, and Sat 6/24 at 5pm.

Two cagey 15 year olds, Moth and Belly, live in the ruins of a dystopian society where filth is abundant and the addiction to consumerism and porn is incessant. But, they have each other – a relationship bound by love, an Internet café, and a slew of inside jokes. If they could only “cross the river,” and be in the capitalist society where an ostensible future exists. When they meet Leather, the journey veers in unconceivable directions as a series of humorous events unfold.

Directed by Larry Biederman.

Cast: Albert Dayan, Cicily Glouchevitch, and Emily James

Produced by John Perrin Flynn and Heather Tyler

“Plenty of dark wit. Feels like something Caryl Churchill might have written — after dipping her quill in the blood of Neil LaBute. Poetic…her portrait of transactional sexual politics…the result is a hypnotic, defiantly opaque — and surprisingly tender — portrait of the endgame of globalization and rampant consumerism” – Chicago Tribune

As part of L.A.’s largest celebration of performing arts, Rogue Machine offers We Are Not These Hands by Sheila Callaghan, In the Valley of the Shadow by Katherine Cortez, The Interference by Lynda Radley, and The Pleasure Project by Ava Bogle.

Sheila Callaghan has had her work produced and developed with Soho Rep, Playwright’s Horizons, Yale Rep, South Coast Repertory, Clubbed Thumb, The LARK, Actor’s Theatre of Louisville, New Georges, The Flea, Woolly Mammoth, Boston Court, and Rattlestick Playwright’s Theatre, among others. Sheila is the recipient of the Princess Grace Award for emerging artists, a Jerome Fellowship from the Playwright’s Center in Minneapolis, a MacDowell Residency, a Cherry Lane Mentorship Fellowship, the Susan Smith Blackburn Award, and the prestigious Whiting Award. Her plays have been produced internationally in New Zealand, Australia, Norway, Germany, Portugal, and the Czech Republic. These include Scab, Crawl Fade to White, Crumble (Lay Me Down, Justin Timberlake), Dead City, Lascivious Something, Kate Crackernuts, That Pretty Pretty; or, The Rape Play, Fever/Dream, Everything You Touch, Roadkill Confidential, Elevado, Bed, and Women Laughing Alone with Salad. She is published with Playscripts.com and Samuel French, and several of her collected works are published with Counterpoint Press. She has taught playwriting at Columbia University, The University of Rochester, The College of New Jersey, Florida State University, and Spalding University. Sheila is an affiliated artist with Clubbed Thumb and a member of the Obie winning playwright’s organization 13P.

http://www.roguemachinetheatre.net/fringe-2017

LOVE. BLOOD. LAUNDRY. Bitch Brow  by Demetra Kareman is a dark comedy set in a Long Island laundromat on one summer night. A tough townie chick and an uptight young woman of privilege clash over everything from career choices to finger fucking… until one of them winds up dead.

@Bitch_Brow on Twitter

bitch_brow on Instagram

https://www.facebook.com/bbrowtheplay/

http://hff17.com/4296

Thanks so much for supporting fresh female voices.

SHAKESLESQUE – written and directed by: Alli Miller and Sarah Haworth-Hodges.
At this year’s Hollywood Fringe Festival, take an immersive, musical theatre burlesque journey through the swirling head of “William Sexspeare” and discover all the mishaps that never made ink on paper.
“William Sexspeare” stumbles, heavily inebriated, through the woods into The Knock Shop, a dilapidated yet musical whorehouse where he picks an evening companion who promises to inspire creativity. It’s an easy pick as he is experiencing a terrible case of writer’s block. He falls asleep, has an orgy (albeit this part a bit blurry), and is at some point drugged. Any which way, his whore/Jiminy Cricket, “F*ck”, is now calling him King Queer and introducing him to his three daughters, “Lady Macbreast”, “Juliewet” and “Beabitch”. It would seem before Shakes wrote the plays we know today; the characters were dreadfully mixed and matched inside his brain. Unbeknownst to you, each character you loved, feared, or hadn’t met yet, once resided in “The Knock Shop-upon-Avon”…or did they? Will “Sexspeare” ever write again? Who is “Ham-on-Rye”? How did “Shakeslesque Hill” survive “Tightass Androgynous”? All this and more can be answered by getting your tush in a glitter covered seat…NOW!

Players:
Alli Miller, Sarah Haworth-Hodges, Michael Shaw Fisher, K.C. Lindley, Heath Butler, Tyler Olshansky, Cory Robison, Rebecca Reaney, Shannon Glasgow, Amber Braken, Reagan Osborne, Kim Dalton, Angie Hobin, Taylor Baker, Kelly Stevenson, Ginger Lee Belle, Sarah Wines, Brin Hamblin, Markesha Chatfield, Bina Monique

Band:
Sandy Chao Wang, Krishnan Swaminathan, Ludvig Brathen, Tim McIntyre

Learn More at hff17.com/4684
IG: @cherrypoppinsLA
twitter: @cherrypoppinsyo
facebook.com/cherrypoppinsproductions
www.cherrypoppinsproductions.com

FRIDAY 6/2, 9:30 PM
THURSDAY 6/8, 5:00 PM
SUNDAY 6/11, 10:30 PM
SATURDAY 6/24 ,1:30 PM
SUNDAY 6/25, 4:00 PM

A “sexier, more violent Waiting for Godot,” this two-person piece of physical theater is a post-modern decreation myth that explores the struggles and impossibilities of communication from the perspectives of XX and XY.

Co-created by Jason Rosario and Nikki Muller
Directed by JJ Mayes

Twitter: @DefOfManThePlay
IG: DefinitionOfManThePlay

http://www.definitionofman.com

I’M TOO FAT FOR THIS SHOW
Written and performed by Kate Huffman
Directed by Scout Durwood

Showtimes:

Fri. 6/2 8pm
Sat. 6/10 8pm
Sun. 6/18 6pm
Mon. 6/19 6pm
Sun. 6/25 4pm

Kate Huffman (Fresh Off the Boat) guides us through two decades of living with an OCD-instilled eating disorder that requires her to live by a strict set of rules and rituals rooted in numbers and eternal body hatred. Masterfully guided by director, Scout Durwood (Mary + Jane), Huffman utilizes biting precision and enchanting levity with every character she presents along her embattled journey.

Laughter and empathy pave the way for a deeper understanding of the physical and emotional effects that OCD and body dysmorphia create in children and adults. I’m Too Fat for This Show presents an opportunity for all people with obsessions, neuroticism, or overwhelmingly negative self-talk to laugh at themselves.

AUDIENCE REACTION:

“Funny, heartbreaking, and so very relatable in surprising ways.”

“Impressive, brave, a tad disturbing, and funny.”

“So well-paced, such a perfect mixture of comedy and tragedy. I thought I knew about eating disorders, but I learned a lot.”

“Amazing and powerful! Heroic is for sure a word that fits.”

“It makes me feel less alone in the constant journey to want to be happy and feel good in my own skin.”

Tickets and more info:
http://www.hollywoodfringe.org/projects/4586

Facebook:
https://www.facebook.com/ImTooFatforThisShow/

“The ABCs” by Monica Trausch
Directed by Sarah Cho
Produced by Mooki Entertainment

“The ABCs” is a world premiere comedy opening at The Complex Theatre as part of the Hollywood Fringe Festival. An all female cast of outrageous high school girls bent on getting what they want: total body perfection, like their idols, the Kardashians.

Runs June 2-24th, dates and times as follows:

Friday, June 2nd at 8:30pm (press/preview)
Thursday, June 8th at 10:30pm (opening)
Sunday, June 11th at 5:30pm
Thursday, June 15th at 7pm
Saturday, June 17th at 10pm
Saturday, June 24th  at 7pm 2017

www.facebook.com/theabcsplay

“HOW TO LOVE YOUR DICTATOR: OLGA & LUDMILA’S GUIDE TO FASCISM”

A half hour dark comedy by Femmebot, PhD

About the show: You’re invited to a live taping of Старушка! Hosts Olga and Ludmila, local Russian celebrities, use their experience living through communism to educate the American public on how to embrace and survive fascism. This TV special is sponsored by glorious leaders Vladimir Putin and Kaiser Donald Trump and features “celebrity” guests.

Showtimes: June 8th 8:30pm, June 10th 11:30pm, June 14th and June 21st 7:30pm

Artists: The show is written by all female sketch group Femmebot, PhD. Femmebot performs monthly at the Pack Theater in Hollywood. Their shows are filled with big characters, toilet jokes, and a smidge of feminism. They also produce original video content for their audience online and have been featured on Funny or Die, Whohaha, and Funny Women Fest.
Femmebot, PhD is Kate Rappoport, Andra Moldav, Jessica Amal, Julia Bartlett, and Nicky Urban.
The show also features actors Mark Nager and Tucker Matthews and is directed by Joey Clift.

Link to buy tickets and to learn more about the show:

http://hff17.com/4480

Follow us: facebook and twitter @femmebotphd, instagram @femmebot_phd

In the Valley of the Shadow by Katherine Cortez

An apocalyptic event in an LGBT Nightclub changes everything; love becomes hate, hate becomes love.

Directed by Elina de Santos
Produced by Heather L. Tyler

World premiere play by Katherine Cortez, inspired by a collision of events: growing up in an Orlando with no openly gay nightclubs; witnessing family friends hiding in shadows and losing lives to AIDS before it had a name; completing the AIDS LifeCycle ride; and The Pulse night club shooting on the eve of LA PRIDE.

The play reflects on how fundamentalist belief systems can give a perverse inspiration to the execution of hate in the name of “love.” Exploring our duality as human beings – a paradoxical species capable of both violence and its opposite – the play challenges audiences to examine our darker parts in order to integrate the shadow and move towards the light, transforming hate into love.

Special performance and reception on the one-year marker of the tragedy on June 11th, the day of PRIDE celebration and #ResistMarch.*

Learn More at roguemachinetheatre.com/ and http://www.hollywoodfringe.org/projects/4749

Love weddings? Hate weddings? We go to weddings to celebrate the beginning to two people’s new life. Then, we have the whole reception to reflect on our own.
I Do! Do you? is a comedy about cold feet and warm hearts. Our wedding is traditional on the outside, and the inside… well, not so much. I Do, Do you?

This world premiere is a collaboration written by the actors of the Lake Arrowhead Rep and The Project–additional writers are Stephen Stewart, Patch Moore, Cody Ingham, Patrick Frey. Directed by Chuck Marra and Megan Foley Marra.

Saturday, June 17, 2017 5:00 p.m.
Saturday June 24, 2017, 4:00 p.m.
(50 mins)
The New Collective 6440 Santa Monica Blvd, Hollywood

The Rise and Fall of Dracula by  Melissa Ortiz

Preview performance Saturday, June 3rd , 2017 at 8:00pm

Additional performances: Friday June 9th, 2017 (8:30 pm); Thursday June 15th, 2017 (10:00pm); Sunday June 18th, 2017 (5:30pm); Saturday June 24th , 2017 (11:30pm).

Although this production is adapted from smatterings of Bram Stoker’s tale, Le Fanu’s Carmilla, reimagined myths and other dark folklore, The Rise and Fall of Dracula gives us a completely fresh story from a female perspective. This unique piece takes us back to the ancient roots of Dracula, slowly weaving the legend of the formidable, enigmatic spirit we have become so intrigued by. Themes of Power, Belief and Companionship run rampant throughout the production with powerfully haunting contemporary classical compositions and primal choreography. We follow familiar and not-so- familiar characters promenade-style throughout the space allowing ourselves to live within the world created by Melissa Ortiz (Writer/ Director), Cassandra Ambe (Choreographer/ Performer) and David Kayser (Composer). We witness Dracula’s transformation to vampire and become the reason for her rise to power over the centuries.

Run time: 75mins. *Please note the production requires audience mobility. The audience will be asked to walk and/or stand throughout. It is intended for audiences of 16 years of age or older.

For more information about The Rise and Fall of Dracula or to purchase a ticket please visit:

www.hollywoodfringe.org/projects/4437
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/CadameCo/
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/cadameco/

“Trump In Space.” World Premiere musical. Hollywood Fringe Festival selection. Book and lyrics by Gillian Bellinger and Landon Kirksey. Music by Tony Gonzalez and Sam Johnides. Directed by Matt Zettell.

Saturday, June 3, 2017 at 10:00 p.m.; Friday, June 16 at 11:30 p.m.; Saturday, June 17 at 5:30 p.m.; Friday, June 23 at 8:30 p.m.; Saturday, June 24 at 5:30 p.m.

Cast for the new musical includes (in alphabetical order) Gillian Bellinger, Nikki Bittogrino, Landon Kirksey, Muriel Montgomery, Scott Palmason, Kevin Richards, Don Schlossman and Jim Shipley.

Four hundred years from now, thanks to the stripping away of EPA regulations, the earth has blown up. Two human factions survive and are on the hunt for Polaris 4, a planet capable of sustaining human life. One faction, the United States of Commerce, lives by a motto of “opportunity at any cost.” Ruled by The Executive, his chief representative in space is starship Captain Natasha Trump, a lineal descendant of Donald J. Trump.

Competing with her to reach Polaris 4 first is a resistance called The Separatists, gathered on the Starship California and led by President Gary Hart, Natasha’s ex-lover.

Which faction will be the first to reach Polaris 4 and establish the New Cosmic Order?

http://hff17.com/4764

www.trumpinspace.tumblr.com

Billy – From Como To Homo written by Lynne Jassem and directed by Jessica Lynn Johnson and Jolene Adams

website: http://www.fromcomotohomo.com
facebook: https://www.facebook.com/Ljassem/
youtube trailer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xvaHJWsRQic

Complex Theatres
(Shepard Studio Theater )
6472 Santa Monica Blvd
Los Angeles

June 9 @ 7pm
June 10 @ 5pm
June 11 @ 1:30pm
June 23 @ 8:30pm
June 24 @ 8pm

Is it a Boy…or is it a girl? The ongoing question as a ten-year old juggles her career on the Perry Como TV Show and the demands of her stage mother ( the ex Rockette) while dealing with gender confusion and a bumpy ride into the world of mortality and tap dancing.

Flat Tire Theatre Company presents the World Premiere of

CRINGEFEST: An Uncomfortable Anthology

At the 2017 Hollywood Fringe Festival

A waitress struggles to tame her wild tables. An apartment’s tenants are interrupted by an obnoxious fire alarm. A young woman perseveres through Christmas at the in-laws’. Two exes must sort out their past before one of them performs songs about their breakup. A failed magician runs into his old partner at the worst time. And finally, an alternative to (cow’s) milk. Join us for a night of feeling embarrassed for the unfortunate souls onstage.

The CringeFest anthology is lovingly written, directed, and performed by a collective of nerds that have recently formed Flat Tire Theatre Company – follow us on Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram! @flattiretheatre

Directed By: Lauren Beausoleil, John Carroll, Sofija Dutcher, Amanda Lloyd, Sarah Marcum, Martin Rodriguez, and Rebecca Walach.

Written By: Natalie Nicole Dressel, Lindsay Kelly, Amanda Lloyd, Eric Moore, Rachel Nursey, Martin Rodriguez, and Rebecca Walach.

Starring: Lauren Beausoleil, John Carroll, Natalie Nicole Dressel, Andrea Flowers, Hannah Holub, Lindsay Kelly, Amanda Lloyd, Sarah Marcum, Travis Martin, Rachel Nursey, Martin Rodriguez, Shae Tomlinson, Ian Walker Price, and Rebecca Walach.

WHERE:

Asylum @ The Stephanie Feury Studio Theatre 5636 Melrose Ave Los Angeles, CA 90038

WHEN:

June 3rd at 4pm (PREVIEW)
June 9th at 11:55pm
June 18th at 2:30pm
June 22 at 8:30pm
June 24th at 10pm

http://hff17.org/4467

Shattered – Written and Performed by Diana Varco, Directed by Jessica Lynn Johnson

Showtimes:
6/3 at 9:30pm, 6/11 at 1pm, 6/17 at 11:30pm, 6/21 at 8:30pm, 6/24 at 9:30pm

Play description:
A solo show about dating, frigidity, and trauma recovery.

After a life-changing event shatters a young woman’s world, she must examine how her past experiences have shaped her views on sex, sexuality and relationships.

Through extensive character work, multimedia projection and heartfelt story-telling, Shattered tells the story of one individual picking up the broken pieces of herself and putting them back together again.

Mature material is explored. Parental guidance suggested.

Artistic team names & any other relevant information:
Written & Performed by Diana Varco
Directed by Jessica Lynn Johnson

Parking is very difficult during Fringe, please leave extra time or lyft/uber.
No late seating.

Website:
http://hff17.com/4380
http://www.dianavarco.com

Social media links, handles and/or hashtags
Facebook: Diana Varco
IG: @dianavarco, @shatteredsolo
Twitter: @dianavarco, @shatteredsolo

“So You Want to be a Vampire,” written and produced by Marni L B Troop
Directed and designed by Natasha Troop

Every Saturday and the last Friday in June at studio/stage at 11:30 pm

Summary: Brenda Frank thinks her life is so horrible that she searches for a real vampire and actually finds one. But some vampires want more than blood. This show is a dark comedy, and the first two rows of seats are designated as the Splatter Zone.

Actors:
Carrie Bell-Hoerth as Brenda
Christian T Chan as Fino
Annie Rives as Alexandra
Jesse Leighton as Kevin
Emily Donn as Georgette
Marian Gonzalez as Jo
Glenn Simon as Mr. Frank
Heidi Appe as Mrs. Frank

Presented by the Offending Shadows Theatre Company
http://oshadows.org/vampire.html

Fringe Website
http://www.hollywoodfringe.org/projects/4487

BRAVO 25: Your A.I. Therapist Will See You Now
A solo show by Eliza Gibson

Saturday, 6/3, 7 pm (preview)
Saturday, 6/10, 7 pm
Sunday, 6/11, 2:30 pm
Saturday, 6/24, 10 pm
Sunday, 6/25, 1 pm

Amber, your A.I. therapist is here. Broken hearts, addicts in recovery, a polyamorous lesbian awaits the arrival of Superintelligence, someone needs a piece of somebody’s liver? Wait. Amber, the A.I. therapist likes donuts?

BRAVO 25 is a one woman, 60 minute show starring Amber, the A.I. avatar therapist and six humans. An excerpt was selected to compete in San Francisco’s PianoFight’s ShortLived competition in February 2016. The show debuted March 2017 at the Rogue Festival in Fresno, and was produced by Beyond Words at Stage Werx Theatre in San Francisco in April 2017. Like Eliza’s solo show, And Now, No Flip Flops?!, BRAVO 25 is directed by David Ford (“the dean of solo performance” – SF Chronicle,) artist in residence at The Marsh.

elizagibsonperforms.com
@ElizaGibson
Instagram: mountainchx
Facebook: @ElizaGibsonPerforms

Inosculation by Siena Marilyn Ledger

Showtimes:

Sat June 3rd 11am
Sat June 10th 2:30pm
Sat June 17th 9:30pm
Sat June 24th 6:30pm
Sun June 25th 4pm

Inosculation is a dark comedy exploring a complicated, cyclical female relationship.

This coming-of-age story follows Lu and Lynn, two women who find themselves alone in a bar with seemingly only a bottle of scotch in common. As they search to understand their relationship to time and space, they realize their connection to each other is more than coincidence. Inosculation seeks to understand the nature of mistakes and the choices that we make.

Artistic team: Lena Agulian (Lu), Chelsea Harvey (Lynn), Katie DeVoe-Peterson (director/producer), Brianna Machado (stage manager, set designer), Kathryn Ashford (graphic designer), Brandon Baruch (lighting designer), Joris Hoogsteder (composer), Rebecca Carr (costume designer), Alyssa Esquivel (make-up designer)

Website: http://hff17.com/4599

Social Media: https://www.facebook.com/Inosculation/
Hashtags: #inosculation

THANKSGIVING by Tiffany Cascio

Showtimes at The Lounge Theatre
Saturday, June 3rd – 7:45pm
Friday, June 9th – 9:45pm
Sunday, June 11th – 3:45pm
Saturday, June 17th – 1:45pm
Friday, June 23rd – 7:45pm

THANKSGIVING is a not all-the-way true, but sometimes painfully so, dysfunctional family comedy. Chloe Patterson has invited her perfect fiancé to what she will make sure is the perfect Thanksgiving, despite her very imperfect family. She’s got a solid plan in place to combat any and all hints of dysfunction, providing for every possible contingency… except the unexpected dinner guest: a very unfiltered, Las Vegas stripper. Scabs are picked, secrets are revealed and fights erupt as this group struggles to make it through another holiday unscathed.

Directed by Kitty Lindsay, Produced by Allison Youngberg
Cast: Trip Langley, Susan Louise O’Connor, Asia Pitts, Gary Poux, Sharon Spence, Allison Youngberg

Tickets on sale at http://www.hollywoodfringe.org/projects/4549

Instagram: @thanksgivingtheplay
Twitter: @ThxgivingPlay
Facebook: Thanksgiving The Play
Hashtags: #thanksgivingtheplay #thanksgivinginjune #welcometothefamily

CHATTER — written, directed, and produced by Natasha Lewin is a dark comedy about silencing the voices of self-doubt.

June 3rd @ 2:30
June 18th @ 5:30
June 22nd @ 7pm

This Hollywood Fringe scholarship-winning play follows a day in the life of a mixed race woman as she attempts to take on the self-destructive voices in her head that tell she’s not thin enough, not black enough, not Jewish enough, not young enough, and too white to break out of her own shame, fear and doubt.

CHATTER is based on the playwright’s own struggles with her race, religion and thoughts of suicide.

CHATTER has even partnered with the American Foundation for Suicide Prevention during its run, donating 10% of all box office proceeds to the cause.

IG: @chatteraplay
Twitter: @chatteraplay
FB: @chatteraplay

Devadasi: A Story of Sex, Power and Devotion
Written and performed by Reena Lalita Desai
Directed by Christina Dunbar

Saturday, June 3rd 7:00PM
Friday, June 23rd 8:30PM

In this One-Woman Show, Reena takes you on her journey into a Russian Tantric Cult, where she falls in love with a “spiritual master,” who she makes her God. By helping Reena awaken to an ancient remembrance of herself as a Devadasi, an Indian Temple Priestess, what is at first an empowering relationship soon turns into one of psychological and spiritual manipulation.

Direct interventions by the Goddess Kali, wake Reena up to face the pain of her reality and her own self-hate. Through devotion to Kali, Reena reclaims the power and sacredness of her body and sexuality.

Through 8 different characters, movement and dance, Reena takes you on an intimate, humorous and mystical journey into the underworld.

Websites:
Tickets: http://hff17.com/4692
More about Reena: http://www.feminineawakening.com
https://www.facebook.com/reena.desai.10
More about Christina (Director): www.christinadunbar.com

Quantum Entanglement by Katelyn Schiller: The most romantic theory in physics.

“From this moment on, our entangled light, our lives, cannot be explained without the other.”

From the Fringe veterans who brought you the award winning “Murder Blood Bear Story” and “How to be a Virgin (in 12 Morally Ambiguous Steps)” comes a love story on the smallest scale imaginable. A miraculous journey of self discovery through cosmic light to illuminate the beauty of the dark, both in space and mind. A portrait of a nuclear family awakened by a fractured past. An astrophysicist looking to the moon to find his missing wife. A mother swallowed up by the dark. A daughter desperate to heal them both.

And an experiment to connect them all.
(Also there’s a cat.)

No science brain needed!
To respect our show-hopping patrons, venue, and fellow Fringe participant’s showtimes, we will start exactly on time and cannot honor late seating. Please plan accordingly.

Hashtag: #quantumentanglement
http://hff17.com/4531
https://www.facebook.com/luciddramatics/
https://www.facebook.com/KatelynSchiller

SpRiNgLoAdEd🚀
a musical meditation on disappeared years, discarded dreams, and delinquent DNA.
A woman finds herself untethered and unhappy within the fast passing years. Out of good ideas, she turns to face her younger selves, expecting she can restore herself and that lost faith by revisiting simpler, happier times of her past. What could go wrong?
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Produced/Written/Composed/Performed by Margot Rose
Musical Director, Alicia Morgan
Musical Supervisor/Co-producer, MJ Denton
Creative consultant, Terrie Silverman
Social Media Director, Heidi Cox
Additional music by Mike Clinco and by Noriko Olling
http://soundcloud.com/margot-rose/sets/springloaded
https://twitter.com/springloaded51

Learn More at m.facebook.com/springloaded51/

Sunday, June 4, 2017 at 12 Noon;
Saturday, June 10 at 4:00 p.m.;
Wednesday, June 14 at 8:00 p.m.;
Thursday, June 22 at 6:00 p.m.; and
Saturday, June 24 at 6:00 p.m.

A sexual hero’s journey. Sara is the spunky, eight-year-old star running back of her street football team. But off the field, she can’t outrun the attack of a sexual predator. As Sara transitions into womanhood, the effects of the childhood attack stay with her. She takes a few hits, but never stays down for long. Tough Brown Leather is a testament to the human capacity to survive, heal and embrace one’s sexual power.

Writer-performer Tonya Jones depicts thirteen characters in this solo show. Tonya Jones is a Los Angeles-based writer and performing artist who is interested in using art as a common language to facilitate dialogue, bridge cultures and communities, and inspire civic engagement. Originally from Newark, NJ, she holds a BA from Howard University and a MFA from Columbia University. At Columbia, Tonya was awarded the Schubert Presidential Fellowship and starred in the world premiere of James Baldwin’s Another Country, directed by Tony Award winner Diane Paulus. She has appeared in several independent films, commercials and stage productions, both off-Broadway and in regional theatre. Some of her credits include Richard III, As You Like It, Intimate Apparel, The Hound of the Baskervilles and Low Level Panic. Additionally, Tonya has written for the stage, magazines, and comedy sites.

Michael Philip Edwards directs. He is an award-winning writer, director and actor for stage and screen, recently nominated for a 2016 Stage Raw Award for Best Playwright for his play Sister. Other notable works for the stage include the Edinburgh Fringe Festival Scotsman Award Winner Runt (First Black writer-performer in history of that festival to receive that award). Michael has directed tours for New York Off-Broadway, London, Adelaide, Australia, Chicago, Pittsburgh, Minneapolis, Canada and Jamaica. For the screen, Michael has directed 7 feature films, most recently Haunted Jamaica, a feature documentary for Netfilx and On Demand, as well as the narrative feature film Murder 101, now in wide release and VOD.

The character of Sara is a woman who is simultaneously vulnerable and tough. You won’t soon forget her.

http://hff17.com/4588

Willy’s Lil Virgin Queen by Terra Taylor Knudson

June 4th, 8:30pm
June 10th, 7pm
June 17th, 11:30am
June 21, 8:30pm
June 24th, 5:30pm

It’s a madcap, captivating romp when Willy Shakespeare and his leading ladies teach a 20th Century girl how to skip the prince and be a Queen!

Performed by Terra Taylor Knudson
Co-Developed and Directed by Jessica Lynn Johnson

Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/OlioTheatreWorks/
Hashtags: #willyslilvirginqueen #oliotheatreworks #hff17

Give me a hotcomb or give me death! Taking place in various locations around Los Angeles, Hotcombs,Homegirls&HOMICIDES promises to be a fun treat for the Fringe audience. 2 women with dreams to ruin the world, a not so special tween, a motivational speaker on the edge, a killer beautician and a gossip columnist that becomes a cautionary headline are just a few of the whacky characters you will meet in this colorful sketch show written and directed by Nina Childs . Boasting an all-female cast of beautiful, brazen women with no shortage of laughs and outrageous moments, this show is going to bring the sizzle and we hope to see you there!

learn more @http://www.hollywoodfringe.org/projects/4455

Blamed: An Established Fiction by Callie Prendiville.

Winner: 2017 Hollywood Fringe Scholarship Award. 2015 San Diego Fringe Best Drama.

These are not your mother’s fairy tales. Blamed: An Established Fiction is a new play that combines text with live music and dance to examine the girls and women throughout mythology, history, and literature who have been blamed for the ills of the world.

Artists: Callie Prendiville, Annie Lavin, Erika Schindele, Renee Curtis, Alanna Bledman, Lillie Muir, Alissa Schoeman, Emily Taylor, Zoya Martin, Rian Dixon, Camille Vargas, Norma Mendoza, Justine Sombilon. Music by Wes Chavez with Brian Johnson.

FB: facebook.com/blamedfiction/
Instagram: @blamedatfringe
Twitter: @blamedafiction

LOVES ADVENTURES by Margaret Cavendish

Sunday, June 4th at 5:30 pm
Saturday, June 10th at 3:00 pm
Sunday, June 18th at 1:30 pm
Tuesday, June 20th at 7:00 pm
Thursday, June 22nd at 7:00 pm
Saturday, June 24th at 5:00 pm

Love is a battlefield, and Margaret Cavendish was one to take this literally in her 1600s classic, Loves Adventures. The epic follows Lady Orphant, who joins the army to pursue the man she loves, while Lady Bashful fights at home against suitors she has no desire to marry. Known for being a feminist of her time, Cavendish used humor to challenge gender norms in a war many women are still waging.

Broads’ Word Ensemble and director Elissa Anne Polansky have infused Loves Adventures with 1980s overtones – not only the fun of Rubik’s Cubes, cootie catcher fortunes, and crimped hair – but also with a nod to this period’s evolution of social attitudes regarding gender, class, and race.

The cast features company members Tara Donovan (Lady Amorous), Marian Gonzalez (Nurse Fondly), Sylvia Loehndorf (Mrs. Reformer), and Esther Mira (Lady Bashful). Joining them on stage for the Broads’ first co-ed production are Anagabriela Cordero (Player), Chineze Enekwechi (Lady Wagtail), John Hayden (Sir Compliment), Edward Hong (Sir Dumb), Faith Kearns (Lady Orphant), Marc Leclerc (Sir Bold), and Travis Moritz (Lord Singularity).

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@BroadsWordThtr

#BroadsLoveBattle

http://hff17.com/4672

www.BroadsWordEnsemble.com

This Our Now by Olivia Cordell at the Hollywood Fringe Festival!

Sunday, June 4 2017 6 PM
Wednesday, June 14 2017 8:30 PM
Saturday, June 17 2017 4 PM
Monday, June 19 2017 10 PM
Friday, June 23 2017 Midnight/12 AM
Saturday, June 24 2017 7 PM

In today’s ‘Age of Anxiety’, two couples tell two more-or-less modern love stories: They fall in love, fall apart, and fail to connect in this thoroughly millennial exploration of emotional defense mechanisms. The nameless characters are the archetypes of young people today: They simultaneously hope for the future and fear it, while trying to build lives in a world where nothing is certain – even themselves. Written by the very young, award-winning playwright Olivia Cordell, This Our Now is led by an all-female production team based at the University of Southern California.

Directed by Aubrey Rinehart
Assistant Director Kimia Yazdi
Produced by Olivia Cordell and Maya Tellez

http://www.Facebook.com/ThisOurNowPlay

What happens when a detailed-obsessed woman tries to time the birth of her child to occur during her favorite month of the year? Nine months of chaos – in utero and out! A hilarious and poignant look at motherhood and the need to control, “October Baby” is a performance not to miss. The 60-minute solo show (with 20+ characters) is written and performed by Brooke Baumer, and directed and developed by Jessica Lynn Johnson. Both women are proud FPI members.

The next chance to catch “October Baby” is during the 2017 Hollywood Fringe Festivals. Performances are: June 4 at 5 p.m. (free preview), June 10 at 11:30 a.m., June 14 at 6 p.m., June 17 at 9:30 p.m. and June 24 at 8 p.m. Please note: there is NO late seating.

For more information, visit www.octoberbabyshow.com. Follow details on the show on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram via @brookebaumer.

Swept Away
by Katherine King

Sunday, June 4 at 5:30pm
Sunday, June 11 at 6:30pm
Saturday, June 17 at 4:30pm
Sunday, June 18 at 8:30pm
Friday, June 23 at 7:30pm

Director: Bonnie Root
Technical Director: Stephen Juhl

Actors:
Katherine King
Justin Baltz
Russ Andrade

Musician: Vince White

Swept Away
Art imitates life when a writer returns to his first love in this haunting tale of the heart. Original music set to a play.

http://www.hollywoodfringe.org/projects/4479

Music: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w2hqutiOQtg

The World Premiere of EMERGENCY OPERATION by Lauren Gorski

SUNDAY JUNE 04 2017, 5:30 PM (Preview)

SUNDAY JUNE 11 2017, 7:30 PM

FRIDAY JUNE 16 2017, 6:00 PM

SUNDAY JUNE 18 2017, 1:00 PM

FRIDAY JUNE 23 2017, 10:00 PM

SUNDAY JUNE 25 2017, 2:00 PM

Based on a 10-min play developed through Playground-LA and winner of People’s Choice, Emergency Operation is a love story about a break-up. When Adam discovers his girlfriend Kelsey has cheated, he decides to fix his broken heart with surgery. While Adam has the opportunity to start fresh, Kelsey can’t let go of a relationship she thought meant everything to her. In a dramedy full of humor, emotion, and surprises—characters learn that actions have consequences and there is no such thing as a quick fix in matters of the heart. Driven by an all female production team, Emergency Operation tackles heartbreak with humor, wit, and love.

The show is not only written by a female playwright but directed by a female director and managed entirely by a female production team. Follow us @emergencyop_hff on Twitter and Facebook.

FRANKENSTUD and THE AURA LORD OF DAWGTOWN two one act comedies by Caroline Marshall.

Sun June 4 at 6 pm PREVIEW
Sat June 10 at 3 pm
Sun June 11 at 4 pm
Sun June 18 at 3 pm
Sun June 18 at 3 pm
Sat June 24 at 7 pm
Sun June 25 at 3 pm
FRANKENSTUD lives in one act!!! Can New Age dreamer and single mom Haley create her dream man with the power of attraction and her best friend Jessica, or will her creation turn on into a gluten and lust filled cupcake nightmare? The answer lies within and at the Hollywood Fringe Festival June 4 through June 25. Winner of best play at INK Fest 2017, a woman’s playwright festival.
Homefree street psychic and the self anointed AURA LORD of DAWGTOWN is fraught over the arrival of a feisty woman named Wanda to his concrete “temple” on the boardwalk in Venice Beach. Is she a slinky she demon bent on betraying him, or a woman searching for her truest self? THE AURA LORD of DAWGTOWN has the answer. Fringe 2017

‘Til Sunday
Written and Performed by: Nairoby Otero
Directed by: Michael D’Angora

SUNDAY JUNE 04 2017, 12:30 PM
TUESDAY JUNE 06 2017, 6:30 PM
SATURDAY JUNE 10 2017, 10:30 PM
SUNDAY JUNE 11 2017, 2:30 PM
WEDNESDAY JUNE 14 2017, 8:30 PM
SUNDAY JUNE 18 2017, 4:30 PM
MONDAY JUNE 19 2017, 6:30 PM
THURSDAY JUNE 22 2017, 10:30 PM
FRIDAY JUNE 23 2017, 6:30 PM
SUNDAY JUNE 25 2017, 2:30 PM

‘Til Sunday, a one-woman play, tells the story of a young mother coming from Cuba to New Orleans with her daughter in search of a better life. It gives a look at a family that defines what it means to be Cuban, what it means to be an immigrant and, ultimately, what it means to be American.  Based on real-life struggles of Cuban families that came to the United States in the early 1970s seeking political asylum, ’Til Sunday tackles issues relevant in our national discourse today.

Twitter: @tilsunday2017
Instagram: @tilsunday2017
Facebook: @tilsundayyoloproductions

“Hey Hollywood, My Hustle Has ADHD” by “Rasika Mathur”
Sun June 4 6pm, Sun June 11 8pm, Thurs June 15 10pm, Sat June 24 10pm

Written and Performed by Rasika Mathur
Developed and Directed by Deana Barone
Hollywood Fringe Veteran and Scholarship Awarded Mentor Chris Farah
hff17.com/4536
Twitter @RasiRas, Instagram @paprikaorange09, Snapchat RasikaM4

86’D
Written by Courtney Arnett with Julia Meltzer
Performances:
Sunday, June 4th @ 4pm (Preview) PWYC Performance with $8 suggestion
Saturday, June 10th @ 5:30pm
Wednesday, June, 14th @ 7pm
Monday, June 19th @ 8:30pm
Friday, June 23rd @ 11:30pm

Serving up an irresistible entrée of sarcastic wit, hilarious ruminations on the service industry and maybe a cold slice of leftover love, comedic misanthrope Courtney Arnett delivers her one-woman comedy 86’d to the Hollywood Fringe Festival. With her unique delivery, Arnett introduces audiences to a candid behind-the-scenes look at what your waitress really thinks of you.
Join her as she welcomes you to be her guest inside the restaurant Sweats for 45 uproarious minutes as she recounts her unique and deeply humorous experiences and personal stories from working in the food industry for over ten years. Whether you love dining out or are a server yourself, Arnett will be your host, server, bartender, and manager for the evening as she entertains you, delights you and sheds light on what you don’t always know is happening just feet from your table. 86’d will be performing at Studio C – 6448 Santa Monica Blvd., Los Angeles, CA 90038 as part of the Hollywood Fringe Festival.

HOW: http://hff17.com/4348

PERSONAL SOCIAL MEDIA HANDLES: Twitter: @courtneya83 Instagram: carnett83 Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/courtney.arnett.3

“Pretty in the USA” by Susanna Leonard
Show times and date:
June 4th (2:30)
June 17th (8:30)
June 25th (7:00)

Pretty in the USA is a comedy sketch expose on beautiful people. This show, written and directed by Susanna Leonard, focuses on the inequality of expectations on members of society, specifically those who are better looking who are held to a lower standard of behavior through satire. Pretty in the USA is a sketch show with the message: Average people have had enough; we’re not going to take it anymore.

The show premiers this June at the Hollywood Fringe Festival – Asylum @ McCadden Place Theater 1157 N. McCadden Place, Los Angeles, 90038.

Cast:
Kenneth Brown
Paige Fokler
Jacklyn Uweh
Derick Otto
Jeffrey Robert Hammerstein
Courtney Kamen

www.HollywoodFringe.org/projects/4477
#PITUSA

Conversations ‘Bout the Girls, the Solo Show by Sonia Jackson
Directed and Developed by Jessica Lynn Johnson
A play which examines a woman’s relationship with her breasts & how it’s changed by the world around her! A great time to bring your girlfriends in celebration of sisterhood.
Remaining shows:
Saturday, 6/17 at 5:30p
Sunday, 6/18 at 5p
Saturday, 6/24 – 1p
http://hff17.com/4318
#boutthegirls
http://www.ConversationsBouttheGirls.com
http://www.Facebook.com/BouttheGirls

“Hello Again! The Songs of Allan Sherman” by Linden Waddell

SUNDAY JUNE 04 2017 – 2:30 PM (preview)

FRIDAY JUNE 09 2017 – 7:00 PM

SUNDAY JUNE 18 2017 – 4:00 PM (bring Dad!)

THURSDAY JUNE 22 2017 – 7:00 PM

SATURDAY JUNE 24 2017 – 11:30 AM

Singer/comedienne Linden Waddell highlights the song parody genius of ALLAN SHERMAN’s zany lyrics, brought to you by an all-female triumvirate for this Hollywood Fringe Festival debut!

Directed and choreographed by award-winning Fringe veteran Janet Miller, with live accompaniment by renowned musical director Marjorie Poe, Linden Waddell pays homage to 1960’s comedy icon and Grammy Award winner Allan Sherman (“Hello Muddah, Hello Fadduh”) by performing a delightfully humorous compilation of his wittiest ditties. The 55-minute concert enchants Sherman fans and newcomers by presenting some of his most recognizable parodies, and also lesser-known material, sure to enlighten even the most diehard Sherman enthusiast. These fun, silly, droll songs are presented in a zany yet professional performance by Miss Linden Waddell (Shubert Theatre’s CATS, Ahmanson Theatre’s The Pirates of Penzance) whose golden voice, comic presence and versatility prompted this response from CABARETScenes:

“Waddell did them all justice with her strong, wide-ranging voice, which encompasses a soaring soprano, a Merman belt and a solid feel for sweet irony. When combined with extremely well-developed acting chops, she was in absolutely top form singing great songs with familiar melodies and amazingly funny lyrics.”

The nutty revue features Great American Songbook standards, musical theatre classics, traditional folk and ‘60s pop songs. Inventive props, audience participation, even a pre-show quiz handout make “Hello Again! The Songs of Allan Sherman” a true crowd-pleaser for anyone who loves to laugh. The show is rated G – suitable for all ages.

CABARETScenes: “terrifically entertaining” * “an evening of solid laughter”

Critic Don Heckman, THE INTERNATIONAL REVIEW OF MUSIC: “a captivating evening of music and humor” * “gales of audience laughter” * “an evening’s worth of hilarious songs overflowing with gag lines in virtually every phrase”

Tom Rolla’s THE GARDENIA: “(a) taut, perfectly executed romp of a show” * “a tour de force!”

Starring Linden Waddell
Musically Directed & Accompanied Live by Marjorie Poe
Directed & Choreographed by Janet Miller
Concept, Written & Produced by Linden Waddell

Twitter: @LindenW1 #HelloAgainSherman
http://hff17.com/4580
www.lindenwaddell.com

Monday, June 5, 2017 at 7:00 p.m.;
Sunday, June 11 at 2:30 p.m.;
Saturday, June 17 at 12 Noon;
Wednesday, June 21 at 8:30 p.m.; and
Sunday, June 25 at 4:00 p.m.

A road rage confrontation stirs up painful memories for a woman in her late 30’s. Unable to shake off the incident once she gets home, she reaches out to her counselor at a women’s medical health center.

Bernadette Armstrong is writer, director and producer. A graduate of San Francisco State University, she has been writing plays and short films since 1998. Her play Simple Lives had a successful run in 2016. Moments was a festival selection at the 2017 2Cent Theatre Group Acting Out Ink Festival. She is the author of two books: Finding Luther and Who Shot Jake.

Her cast: Penelope Korff has previously appeared in productions of Kimberly Akimbo, The Odd Couple (female version), Still Life and Simple Lives. Christine Uhebe has appeared in Affluence (Theatre 40), Fefu and Her Friends (Circle X) and Simple Lives. Her film credits include Distant Vision (Francis Coppola), Timepiece, Real Nightmare, Early Summer. The Brazilian actress is a graduate of the Lee Strasberg Theatre & Film Institute.

http://hff17.com/4364

A rare opportunity for a woman to be her true nightmarish self in her rented accommodation uninterrupted by flatmates. Uninterrupted by flatmates because they’re all dead. Thankfully.
“..a provocative, silly and slightly smutty hour with more innuendo than you can shake a ridicule rod at – keep an eye on Aimee Levey.” A Younger Theatre
“It’s not for the faint of heart, but Levey’s commitment means the lone joke lasts the course” The Scotsman
“Such an unusual piece of drama defies normal kinds of recommendation.” Broadway Baby.

Showtimes: 06/08 3pm, 06/12 6pm, 06/14 5.30pm, 06/17 4pm, 06/19 8.30pm, 06/20 4.30pm, 06/21 6.30pm

http://www.hollywoodfringe.org/projects/4544

“13th Grade” by Pamela Eberhardt and Dan Testa

PERFORMANCES
Monday 6/5 @8:30pm PREVIEW
Thursday 6/8 @9:30pm
Sunday 6/11 @6:00pm
Friday 6/16 @10:30pm
Friday 6/23 @7:30pm
Saturday 6/24 @7:00pm

A New 90’s Musical Comedy in the vein of “Wet Hot American Summer,” “Strangers With Candy,” and “Saved by the Bell.”

The year is 1998. The setting is a community college. The day is a Tuesday, maybe. Could be a Thursday. Three singing narrators, who look like they came out of “The Craft,” guide us on a journey with a group of kids in community college venting about relationships, family and the struggles of moving into adulthood. Through 90’s inspired tunes, 13TH GRADE promises to deliver an evening of laughter, love and life lessons.

STARRING: Lucas Alifano, Meghan Allison, Tiffany Brain, Jeff Scot Carey, Emily Clark, Pam Quinn, Oscar Gubelman, Ryan Harriss, Tripp Rolapp, Katrina Rennells, Travis James Riner

MUSIC & LYRICS: Pamela Eberhardt and Dan Testa
BOOK: Pamela Eberhardt
DIRECTOR: Andy Kenareki
CHOREOGRAPHER: Meghan Allison
MUSIC DIRECTOR: Emily Clark
COSTUME/GRAPHIC DESIGN: Katrina Rennells
STAGE MANAGER: Nick Foran
ASST. STAGE MANAGER: Adam Aguilar
PRODUCERS: Emily Clark and Pamela Eberhardt

http://iamanunknownartist.wordpress.com
https://www.facebook.com/events/1399976403416504/
@TUnknownArtists on Twitter #13thGrade

We text, we chat, we send pictures. But pictures may not be worth a thousand words. And a thousand words might just mean everything, to someone who needs to hear them.
A short, fast and funny, piece of personal stories interwoven to express gratitude to the unsuspecting influential people that have touched their lives. Is there someone who changed your life and you have never told them?
Just Sayin’…

Thursday, June 15, 2017 7:30 p.m.
Friday, June 16, 2017, 6:00 p.m.
Friday, June 23, 2017 10:00 p.m.
(55 mins)
The New Collective 6440 Santa Monica Blvd, Hollywood

As part of L.A.’s largest celebration of performing arts, Rogue Machine Theatre presents plays that are new to Los Angeles. While focusing on social issues from female playwrights, offerings include the world premiere of The Pleasure Project by Ava Bogle and In the Valley of the Shadow by Katherine Cortex, the American premiere of The Interference by Lynda Radley, and the Los Angeles premiere of We Are Not These Hands by Sheila Callaghan.

Women, no longer timid about their right to freedom of speech and sexual expression, pose the question… can female sexuality save humanity? In their weekly Aliens Anonymous meeting, the group wonders “What do the humans have that could possibly be worth saving?” Paula, the sexiest of the aliens, knows the answer! “It’s the clitoris, the only organ in the human body designed solely for pleasure.” Skeptically they wonder, “Well then why isn’t the clitoris revered by all?” What follows is a hilarious, irreverent, and sensual romp exploring gender, masturbation, cunnilingus, Christianity & much more in a multimedia one-woman variety show that includes music, dance, lip syncing and, yes, donut holes.

“Anyone who is wondering if there’s a young audience for theatre need only to wander down the sidewalk on Santa Monica Blvd. in June. This is fasten-your-seatbelt theatre.” – John Perrin Flynn; Founding Artistic Director/Rogue Machine

Ava Bogle (Playwright/Performer) is a writer, filmmaker, comedian and sex blogger at DiaryofaSluttyFeminist.com. A few selected stage roles include Brenda in Four Dogs and a Bone, Emily in Our Town, and Harold’s 3 Internet dates in Harold and Maude. As a comedian, she has appeared at The Comedy Store, Flappers, and The Viper Room, where she likes to talk about feminism. Her directorial debut Meryl Fuckin Streep is currently playing the festival circuit.

Rachel Avery is an award winning directed (New York Musical Theater Festival – Huffington Post list of top 20 shows for 2011 in NYC; nominated for Best Director of a Musical by the Calgary Theatre Critics’ Awards). Last year she directed the pilot Wake Up America! Rachel has appeared Off-Broadway in Re-Animator the Musical, which had a subsequent World Tour. She is a member of Rogue Machine Theatre and Pacific Resident Theatre in Los Angeles and has been involved in numerous plays winning Ovation, LADCC and LA Weekly Awards. Her short film “Jet Lag” premiered at The California Women’s Film Festival. She is slated to direct a feature film later this year.

ROGUE MACHINE THEATRE recently received the Polly Warfield Award for Outstanding Season from the LA Drama Critics Circle, as the only theatre company to be given this award twice in the past sixteen years. KCRW (Best Theatre 2016) was another highlight of last season as well as receiving a Shubert Foundation grant, awarded to select theatre organizations for their artistic achievement, administrative strength, and fiscal stability along with company’s development of new work and other significant contributions to the field of professional theatre in the United States. A recipient of the American Theatre Wing’s 2014 National Theatre Company Grant, given only to 12 theatre companies in the country, Rogue Machine has garnered recognition for their work in upwards of 75 awards and nominations.

Produced by John Perrin Flynn and Heather Tyler

The Pleasure Project begins performances on Thurs 6/8 at 10pm, Fri 6/9 6:30pm, Thurs 6/15 8pm, Fri 6/16 10, pm, Tues 6/20 8pm Fri 6/23 6:30pm, and Sat 6/24 3pm. Rogue Machine is located at The Met, 1089 N Oxford Ave, Los Angeles, CA 90029. Tickets are $15. Reservations: 855-585-5185 or at http://www.roguemachinetheatre.net/fringe-2017

Sizzle: A Sketch Comedy Show by Jasmine McLaurin, Khadija Jamila Roane, Lina Green, Lauren Eaton, Atiya Walcott, Meg Cashel, JP Siruno, Aidan Roth

June 8th,15th, 22nd at 10pm

In Sizzle, childlike stage designs give way to hard-hitting performances and daring social commentary. Director Jasmine McLaurin brings together local performers for three different shows to execute the series’ commitment to effective storytelling and positive human interactions.

Sizzle was created to help audiences of different backgrounds, histories, and politics become more familiar with one another. One of the series’ major focuses is to create a platform for performers and viewers of color.

http://www.seekidrun.com

IG: @seekidrun
#SizzlinBaby

Sybil’s Closet is part of 12 short musicals produced by NMI. Inc. at the Hollywood Fringe this June. It is a musical–Grace Jasmine, book lyrics and Ross Plotkin, composer.

What’s hiding in your closet?

Sybil, a new age granny, and her uptight sister, Prudence are planning a bridge game—but they need replacements! Prudence wants to get that handsome new parson to come. Sybil wants to invite the interesting new woman next door—Betty. It turns out everyone has something to hide as Sybil bonds with Betty over tea and secrets are revealed. Will Prudence sit in judgment, will the parson be shocked? Anything can happen when you’re playing games.

http://nmi.org/fringe-2017-sybil/

Claim Jumper written by Grace Harryman

A one woman show re-imagined as a Ted talk told from the prospective of characters who have appeared throughout my life. The theme is that inside of all of us there exist many versions that we are trying to get to just sit nice. You’ll hear about the events and people that have shaped my prospective and helped me to find the funny.

Linnea Snyder is the Violinist for my show

http://www.hollywoodfringe.org/projects/4454?tab=details

*Life…Death…and Entertainment by Susan Damante

HOLLYWOOD FRINGE FESTIVAL TIMES :

June 11 7-8:30 pm $15
discount code 4la4

June 18 5-6:30 pm two for one $10

June 22 7:30-9 pm $15
discount code 4la4

June 24 11:30a -1:00pm two for one $10

Purchase Two for One Tickets at:
http://www.lakearrowheadrep.org/megans-fringe

Location:
THE NEW COLLECTIVE
6440 Santa Monica Blvd
Los Angeles CA 90038

*********************
LIFE… DEATH… AND ENTERTAINMENT
by Susan Damante
About Susan Damante :
Studied under William Ball at The American Conservatory Theatre in
San Francisco, with Atlantic Theater Acting Studios in New York and LA,
Milton Katselas and Jeffrey Tambor in Los Angeles. She has appeared in movies
THE CANDIDATE with Robert Redford, THE STUDENT TEACHERS
directed by Jonathan Kaplan (THE ACCUSED), THE WILDERNESS FAMILY
(and its two sequels), as well as numerous TV series. She also starred as Cam Fish
in the acclaimed short feature: UNENDING HELL. She appeared on the
New York stage as Bev McHale in HER SONOMA STORY at the
Neighborhood Playhouse. She also directed the original play, BRODIE AND
RUTH
and was producer/casting director of WILLOWBEE which was showcased at the
HBO/US Comedy Arts Festival in Aspen, Colorado. A forty-three year practicing
Nichiren Buddhist with the SGI, she is thrilled to dedicate her solo play,
which took five years to write, develop and producer under her banner:
Out Our Way Productions…and now complete with original songs by RON
MESA…
to her mentor Daisaku Ikeda and to her mother Marjorie, who taught her true
resilience.
To view Susan’s resume and reel go to: http://resumes.actorsaccess.com/susandamante

THE SHOW:
Susan Damante’s autobiographical solo show where life, death and music collide.
In her own words actress/writer/singer Susan Damante has faced “almost every
possible
thing a human can and risen up to victory.” Life…Death…and Entertainment is
about her journey of overcoming adversity, facing fear, cheating death, gaining
character
through her misfortune and encouraging others along the way. Quoting Eleanor
Roosevelt,
Damante says “you gain strength, courage and confidence by every experience in which you really
stop to
look fear in the face…” and Susan adds, “we all have songs that touch our lives during the most
important moments… a little tune can illuminate the hard times make them tremendously entertaining
—
FOR All social media my username is susandamante.

In this one woman show, Ellyn Daniels takes us on an intoxicating ride from Orlando to Togo, from ballet to bulimia, from walking the runways of Paris to blacking out in Hollywood mansions, and from sitting on the precipice of suicide to finding salvation through stand-up comedy. Daniels finds a hilarious spin on her most psychologically demoralizing moments in this unapologetic, soul-bearing tale of one girl’s journey from humiliation to liberation.

Written and performed by Ellyn Daniels
Directed by Desmond Devenish

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The King’s Language written by Chris Yejin

In a unique blend of contemporary and traditional theater, The King’s Language is a historical play that flows to the beat of a native Korean instrument, staccatoed by poetic monologues and movement from an all-Asian cast. Combined with primarily English-spoken dialogue that’s idiomatically American, this retelling of a distinctive watershed in Korean history is relatable in spite of the cultural tone because of its clear, challenging cry about society’s use of language today where the truth of what we say and read are often blurred–casting a spotlight on the risk of eroding one of our most rudimentary tools as a species.

Performance Run
6/9 @ 5pm
6/14 @ 6:30pm
6/17 @ 5:30pm
6/23 @ 6pm
6/24 @ 1pm

hff17.com/4503

Follow us on Facebook and Instagram @thekingslanguage

#hff17 #korean #asian #diversity #history #theater

“SNATCHED…Stories From Down There”
Written & performed by Loree Gold
Directed by Jessica Lynn Johnson

“SNATCHED…Stories From Down There” is a truly unique one-woman musical multimedia show that combines live performance, video projections, original songs/music, and interactive storytelling.

The theme is what can happen “when your pussy falls in love…and takes you along for the ride.” (*Substitute your genitalia of choice)

Over the top personal stories that ring universal for all genders, queer, bi, straight, trans etc. Stories that are outrageously vulnerable, sexy, tender, funny & raunchy. Stories that are true…enough.

SHOWTIMES:
June 10, 2017 – 2:30 PM
June 12, 2017 – 7:00 PM
June 18, 2017 – 4:00 PM
June 24, 2017 – 4:00 PM

http://hff17.com/4542

Home Girl is about a 30 something career girl who makes the trek home to throw a baby shower for her best friend. While home she discovers a stranger living with her mother, that the locals still reek of booze and bad attitudes, and that if she doesn’t do the sensible thing, like get married and have a kid- the whole world will likely forget about her.

Home Girl puts a spotlight on how these two women have grown apart, because of the miles that separate them and cultural ideals that shape them. Most importantly, it puts a magnifying glass on all the demands of young women today, that are still very present in global culture; make a baby, get married, and for gods sake, don’t get any HUGE ideas in your head, it will just complicate your life.

The show is running at The Uptown Underground @ Theater Asylum
Showtimes:
6.10 @ 8pm
6.11 @2pm
6.22 @8:30pm
6.24 @2pm

You can check out Tess Middlebrook’s site
www.tessmiddlebrook.com
Or you can follow Tess or Abra on Instagram
@tessmiddlebrook
@cadabra53

We are also part of a two person improv team called the SS Moorebrook
Here is our Facebook page.

https://m.facebook.com/S.S.Moorebrook/

Hashtag for our show #homegirl

– Title: Confessions of an Arab Woman
– Show Times: Saturday 06/10/17 at 1 p.m./ Saturday 06/17/17 at 2 p.m./ Friday 06/23/17 at 10 p.m.
– Location: Complex Theatre – Dorie Theatre
– Play Description:
“Confessions of an Arab Woman” is adapted from “I killed Scheherazade”, a memoir by Joumana Haddad. The book has been translated to more than 3 languages and the author has been selected as one of the 100 most powerful Arab women for three years in a row by Arabian Business Magazine. She also has been selected as one of the top 100 Lebanese influential Lebanese people around the globe.
“Confessions of an Arab Woman” is about her life story. It explores her upbringing in Lebanon and all the factors that made her who she is today. It counters stereotypes about Arab and Middle eastern women by showcasing an authentic story of a powerful woman. At the same time, it is an invitation to women everywhere to own their power.
Playwright and Director: Nagham Wehbe
Starring: Cynthia Yelle, NadiaEl-Tawansy, Gamon Sanchez, Sandy Rather, Tiffany Baddie, Brenda Salas, Gilbert Reynoso, Evan Langle, ALexandra Olson, Taylor Solomon
website: www.confessionsofanarabwoman.com
social media:
instagram/fb: @confessionsofanarabwoman
twitter: @confessionsthe1

F**ked Up Fairy Tales

Book and Lyrics by Grace Jasmine, Music by David Jayden Anthony

Love trumps hate in Fairy Tale Land

The Magic Bean bar in Fairy Tale Land has always been a haven for the dysfunctional characters who call it their home away from home. But when they come together to celebrate bar owners Jack and the Giant’s engagement–all hell breaks loose! Evil King Midas’ henchmen crash the party with new laws and vile threats. Will they fight the new regime? Can they save Fairy Tale Land? Only if they have an amazing plan and find a way to work together.

MORE INFO: https://www.facebook.com/fringiest/

Paper Flowers by Abby Schroering is a comedy about love, marriage and cellos.

June 10: 5:30pm
June 15: 8:00pm
June 17: 3:00pm
June 18: 7:00pm
June 24: 12:30pm

http://hollywoodfringe.org/projects/4322

Under the Jello Mold is Jennie’s Fahn’s one-woman show about how she dealt with her very colorful character of a mother during what turned out to be the final act of her life. Jennie’s mother was a force to be reckoned with: a former dancer, never content to merely rehash her past, there was always a story to be embellished, always a name to drop, and always a lesson to teach. From the inevitability of aging, to criminal acts, to life-changing decisions, Jennie survived the onslaught by finding comedy in every possible tragedy. If anyone could make something ridiculous out of the banal, it was certainly her mom; particularly when it came to where she hid the instructions for what to do in case of her death. Told in anecdotes, characters, and even a little song, the show is full of laughs and a lot of heart. In addition, in an unexpected twist, Jennie learns that her mom had more than just burial instructions hidden Under The Jello Mold…

PERFORMANCE SCHEDULE:
Saturday, June 10 at 1:00pm
Sunday, June 11 at 4:00pm
Saturday, June 17 at 4:00pm
Sunday, June 18 at 2:30pm
Thursday, June 22 at 7:00pm
Saturday, June 24 at 7:00pm

Jennie Fahn is a writer/actor/director. Her first one-woman show, You Mutha! A One-Mother Show ran for two years in Los Angeles and was featured in the 2005 N.Y. Fringe Festival. As an actor, Jennie will appear shortly (pun intended) in the upcoming features The Twin and Muse, and in the new Showtime episodic I’m Dying Up Here. Los Angeles theater appearances include: Grow A Pair…Of Wings (Lounge Theater), Pride And Prejudice (Actors Co-op), Alice In One-Hit Wonderland 1 & 2, Jackson Frost (Troubies/Falcon), Amadeus (with Neil Patrick Harris – Hollywood Bowl), The Wild Party (Musical Theater Guild), Anyone Can Whistle (Matrix), A New Brain (West Coast Ensemble), Up The Week Without A Paddle (Neurotic Young Urbanites), and Wonderful Town (Reprise!). Or you may see her in a re-run of one of her television appearances on The Middle, Heroes, Without A Trace, The Bernie Mac Show, My Name Is Earl, Will And Grace and Becker. She recently wrote and directed her short film, Break, as well as directed several episodes of the web series Insult To Injury. She also is the writer/co-star (with Tippi Hedren) of the short Tea With Grandma. Jennie is the proud wife of Jonathan, and mom of Harry and Sammy.

http://hff17.com/4402

@jenniefahn (Twitter)

www.facebook.com/underthejellomold

“WIGS”
by Lindsay Beamish and Amanda Vitiello

SHOWTIMES:
Saturday June 10th @ 10pm
Sunday June 11th @ 5:30pm
Saturday June 17th @ 7:00pm
Friday June 23rd @ 8:30pm
Sunday June 25th @ 4:00pm

Kiddnapping! McDonalds! Boyfriends made of shirts! Safe wigs! Dangerous Wigs! Might they escape him tonight???

WIGS is a 50-minute original piece about two preteen girls who have been captured and locked in a small room for many years. They are commanded and controlled by an unseen man who hides behind a curtain of bed sheets, and who instructs the girls to perform a series of trained acts and unfamiliar ceremonies. The girls communicate with the man who captured them via invented ritual and coded discourse, and communicate with each other via a semi-private language that developed out of their captivity, and through which they have been planning and practicing their escape for many years. As a coping mechanism, the girls develop anthropomorphized relationships with the few tangible things that exist in their room, including their own t-shirts which are they transform into boyfriends, and with wigs the man requires to them to wear. The two actresses who play the captured girls also play the man who controls them. Will they survive their escape tonight??

As an actress Lindsay Beamish is best known for John Cameron Mitchell’s film “Shortbus,” Miranda July’s seminal film “Nest of Tens,” the role of Carry Mulligan’s best friend in the film “The Greatest” starring Pierce Brosnan and Susan Sarandon, and was most recently seen in the film “Forgetting the Girl” for which her performance received notable reviews in The New York Times and Variety. Her dance company, The Leg and Pants Dans Theeatre, has toured the US with acclaimed band Deerhoof, and performed at such venues/events as The Knitting Factory (NYC and LA), the Bowery Ballroom, Ladyfest San Francisco, and Arthur Ball Los Angeles.

Amanda Vitiello’s credits include Rose of Sharon in The Grapes of Wrath (Shields Theater), Kitty in Anna Karenina and Thea in Hedda Gabler (Chrysalis Stage), Veronica in Chicago and Consuelo in West Side Story (Musical Theatre Los Angeles), and Rosannah in Brilliant Traces (Front Porch Players). Her original film ‘Heaven Blossom’ was the recipient of the 2015 Audience Award for Bagavagabond’s 5for50 Film Festival. She is currently a series regular on the comedy web series, ‘The LAURA Show’.

HERE’S A REVIEW!: Regina Robbins at Theatre is Easy says, “Wigs is proof that actor-driven devised work can yield superb results. It is focused and totally absorbing… Beamish and Vitiello are completely convincing in their difficult roles; it’s hard to imagine there are better performances being given in the Fringe this year.”

WEBSITE: wigstheshow.com

FACEBOOK EVENT: https://www.facebook.com/events/219618795212480/?acontext=%7B%22ref%22%3A%22108%22%2C%22action_history%22%3A%22null%22%7D

“Nurse Asistio: Living the Filipino American Dream!” is a one-woman-show written and performed by Lesley Asistio. In an attempt to fulfill her mother’s hopes for her to become a nurse, a Pinay woman tries to attain the American Dream while still staying true to her roots. This multi-character, surrealist-comedy explores happiness, dreams, relationships, and self-actualization.

June 11 @ 2:30pm
June17 @ 1pm
June 18 @ 5:30pm
June 24 @ 4pm
June 25 @ 5:30pm

My Bestie
Book by Stacia Roybal
Music and Lyrics by Jen Levins, Amanda Sasser, and Stacia Roybal
Sunday June 11th 5:30 p.m., June 16th 11:30 p.m., June 24th 7:30 p.m.

Musical odyssey about a female experiencing her vagina from first menstruation to adulthood. Humorous lighthearted musical that explores friendship, love, and the role of ego in relationships. Merely consider this musical The Vagina Dialogue.

instagram: @mybestiethemusical

website: http://www.srfilmproduction.com/

fringe site and for tickets: http://hff17.com/4461

Behind The Pulpit

by Noam Friedlander

June 11, 8.30pm Asylum @ Studio C
June 17, 10pm Asylum @ Studio C
June 25, 7pm Asylum @ Studio C

Being babysat by Playboy Bunnies and being taken to concentration camps as a child wasn’t exactly responsible parenting. Award-winning writer Noam Friedlander spills the beans in this one-woman show about life as a prominent Rabbi’s daughter.

Performer: Noam Friedlander

http://hff17.com/4545

Khant Hotel by Lindsey Blackman
Showtimes: (50 minute run-time)
Sunday, June 11 @ 9pm
Sunday, June 18 @ 1pm
Friday, June 23 @ 10pm
Sunday, June 25 @ 4pm

Taking a vacation and staying at a hotel should be a luxury experience. Trying to maximize profit, Ka Hotels have taken a page from the airlines’ customer service handbook. This is the story of Livia’s stay at a Ka hotel. The poor treatment she receives leads her to seek the hotel’s owner, Mary. Persuaded to change the way the hotel operates, Mary breaks away from Ka Hotels. Mary’s new Khant Hotel treats Livia better. Her stay is more enjoyable, until it’s over.

Cast:
Jill Czarnowski
Jennifer Wilson
John Siscel
Lindsey Blackman
Jessica Dowdeswell
Thang
Alex Dorcean
Robin Stepanek
Cody Shampine

Tech: Shawna Voragen

www.KhantHotel.com

https://www.facebook.com/khanthotel

Got A Minute (The Spoken Opera of Life)Real-life stories woven together in a fast-paced, short piece about finding and speaking your thanks. A group of storytellers let us in, with witty, touching and inspiring stories, events and important people in their lives.

DYSTOPIA by Madi Goff, Laurie Jones, Kelly Lohman, Aliza Pearl, Sara Mountjoy-Pepka, Amanda Troop, Jessica Lynn Verdi

6/14 @ 7pm, 6/22 @ 8:30pm, 6/24 @ 1pm

Ripley. Kickass women actors improvising artful, long-form narrative. In their current show, DYSTOPIA, Ripley Improv tells the tales of young women coming of age against a dystopian backdrop. Like the heroines of The Hunger Games and Divergent, the women of Ripley’s “DYSTOPIA” rise up and fight the oppressive powers that rule their lives. Ripley improvises one hour original plays based on your suggestions. No script, no planning, no net.

Cast: Madi Goff, Laurie Jones, Kelly Lohman, Aliza Pearl, Sara Mountjoy-Pepka, Amanda Troop, Jessica Lynn Verdi
Director: Amanda Troop
Producer: Kelly Lohman
Technical Improvisor: Emily Rose Jacobson

Ripley Improv performs regularly at Impro Studio. All plays are written by the cast and the technical improvisor in the moment based on audience suggestion. All contributors are female.

@ripleyimprov on Facebook and Twitter
@ripley_improv on Instagram
ripleyimprov.com
http://hff17.com/4582

“London Calling” – book by Peggy Lewis

June 16th 8 pm
June 17th 8 pm
June 18th 3 pm
June 23rd 8 pm
June 24th 8 pm
June 25th 3 pm

On the 40th anniversary since the release of the first Clash album in 1977, “London Calling” a musical with music by The Clash and book by Peggy Lewis will premiere at The Hudson Theatre during the Hollywood Fringe festival in June.

London Calling is a gritty musical inspired by music of The Clash based on the events of our lives and others, and a youth spent playing in bands, living in squats and pursuing dreams, in Holland and Canada.
The lyrics of the songs are the dialog, that propel the story forward. A story of aspirations, disappointment and redemption,

The Clash’s impact on a generation can not be disputed, and their music continues to influence and inspire.

www.london-calling.com
Twitter: @callingmusical

I am Sophie.
Written and Performed by Corinne Shor

Showtimes:
June 16 at 11:30pm
June 18 at 4:00pm
June 24 at 8:30pm

I AM SOPHIE is an exploration of identity in which YOU become the confidante to Sophie Carter, formerly known as Kate Carter. Sophie is a changed woman returning to the United States after living in France. She comes home to take care of her sick father and when she arrives, her loved ones meet Sophie for the first time. What follows is an existential adventure. With humor and an aching heart, Sophie has us all wondering – “Am I who I think I am?”

http://hff17.com/4605
Twitter: @iamSophie_hff17
#FindYourSophie

NICAEA by Tricia Aurand
Shows: 6/16 @ 6pm, 6/18 @ 8pm, 6/24 @4pm
A fourth-century political thriller about the real-life Council of Nicaea in 325 A.D. Christianity’s origin story: theology, blackmail, and lies.
Starring: Mikie Beatty, Anna Chazelle, Brendan Haley, Dontrail Brinson, Morry Schorr, Anthony Backman, Azeen Khanmalek, and Kelton Lin.
Website: https://www.facebook.com/nicaeaplay/
hff17.com/4410
#nicaeaplay