It’s Personal: Los Angeles

Performed and Written by

Riley Billingsley, Liz Kummer, Bob Guck, Andy Quintana, Kate Orlando, Sade Jones, Kelsey Leign, Alec Schiff, Leigh Jones

It’s Personal is a Solo Performance group in Los Angeles. Each performer writes their own truthful piece and performs it on stage with our group. For our Hollywood Fringe Festival show, our performers are talking about all things Los Angeles: the dating, the housing, the traffic, the jobs, everything!

Each It’s Personal show, we raise money for a different charity. For our Los Angeles show we will be raising money for Inner City Arts, which allows children in low income areas to receive a high quality arts education.

Showtimes:

May 23rd at 7 pm at The Ruby Theater at The Complex Theaters

Fringe Festival Shows at The Flight Theater at The Complex Theaters:

June 9th at Noon

June 15th at 10 pm

June 16th at 8:30 pm

June 23rd at 4:30 pm

June 27th at 6:30 pm

itspersonalonstage.com

instagram: @itspersonalonstage

twitter: @itspersonalla

Lincoln 2020 by Holiday Kinard

Like a lot of people today, campaign manager Tess Baker is sick of politics. She’s just about ready to throw in the when somebody wakes up a candidate she can work with – Abraham Lincoln. Will he be a good President in 2020 America? Will he even win? You decide! That’s right, the play has two endings and your vote counts!

Director Colleen Labella is known for her work with IAMA Theatre Company and the Geffen Playhouse.

www.lincoln2020play.com

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World Premiere of The Same Room by Kelley Pierre and directed by Scott Golden.

June 6th 10pm, June 15th 4:30pm, June 19th 6pm, June 22nd 8pm,
June 26th 10:30pm

“A dimension as vast as space and as timeless as infinity…” well, not quite. Thyma and Aspid find themselves trapped- in a barren room with two locked doors, but where are they? What sets them free? And most importantly, what happens after this? The Same Room explores human compassion in a new light and begs the question – What becomes of us when we refuse to heal? Lucid Dramatics, winner of the 2018 “Best in Ensemble” Hollywood Fringe Award is excited to bring the World Premiere of The Same Room to the 2019 Hollywood Fringe Festival.

The Same Room stars Kelley Pierre and Sam Sheeks.

About the Team
Kelley Pierre (Writer) is an LA based actor and playwright. Her serio-comic style and love of psychology based theatre was a driving factor in the creation of Lucid Dramatics’ Laertes <3’s Hamlet <3’s Ophelia – A modern roommate spin on Hamlet that uses the famous character as an example of Covert Narcissistic Personality Disorder. Kelley has performed all over the country, from touring Shakespeare in NYC with Stages On the Sound to five seasons with The Virginia City Players in Montana – who produced her original melodrama Murder Before Tea for their 2017 season, to playing the title role in Elysium’s Richard III, here in California last spring. You can also catch Kelley in Ian Kaye’s 45 Milligrams this  Fringe season.

This is director Scott Golden’s tenth project at the Hollywood Fringe Festival. He has worked as an actor, director, or producer on many hit shows including Best Comedy winners Lamprey: Weekend of Vengeance (HFF16), Easy Targets (HFF17) and Top of Fringe winners Absolutely Filthy (HFF14) and Resa Fantastiskt Mystisk (HFF18). Scott is a member of the Sacred Fools Theatre company and is an associate member of Burglars of Hamm.

Sam Sheeks most notable Los Angeles stage credits include Rabbit Hole (Izzy) as a 2Cents Theatre Company member; Shakespeare on the Deck: Romeo & Juliet (Romeo), Macbeth (Witch/Ensemble), Midsummer Night’s Dream (Flute); Acting Out Ink Fest 2019: SOLO (Denise), East Stanton Station (Liz).

Tix & Info: http://hff19.org/5954

Oracles & Miracles’, written by Norelle Scott, based on the best-selling novel by Stevan Eldred-Grigg, follows two sisters Ginnie and Fag growing up during the 1930s and 40s in Christchurch, New Zealand. Driven by the hope of a better life, they consume love stories, and covet luxuries beyond their reach. More than anything they want to be loved.

This production in The Hollywood Fringe Festival is the North American premier. The play has an outstanding cast of  New Zealand actors: Amy Waller, Siobhan Marshall, Elizabeth Hawthorne, Donogh Rees, Millen Baird and Oscar Wilson.

‘Oracles & Miracles’ director Leah Patterson, won the Best Director Award at The Hollywood Short and Sweet Festival 2016 for Norelle’s play ‘Bridget and Iain’. ‘Bridget and Iain’ won the Audience Award at the same festival. The film ‘Bridget and Iain’ directed by Leah and written by Norelle has screened at a number of International festivals.

PERFORMANCE DATES:

Thursday, June 6th, 8:30pm – Press night

Friday, June 14th, 8:30pm – Opening night

Friday, June 21st, 7:30pm

Saturday, June 22nd, 5pm

Sunday, June 23rd, 3pm

Friday, June 28th, 5pm

Saturday, Jun 29th, 10pm

Sunday, June 30th, 11am – Closing

VICTORIA GORDON – LIVE AT THE HOLLYWOOD FRINGE by Victoria Gordon

Written, Directed, and Produced by Victoria Gordon with Musical Direction by Sam Webster

Show dates:

June 6 at 10:30 PM

June 15 at 9 PM

June 16 at 12 PM

June 23 at 4:30 PM

June 27 at 8:30 PM

hff19.org/5857

Instagram: @thevictoriagordon

Twitter: @TheVictoriaLive

“The Last Croissant” by Veronica Tjioe
Directed by Rosie Glen-Lambert
Produced by The Attic Collective

An existential camping farce exploring gender, loneliness, and great snacks.

Imogen and Frederick have come to this national park on their 24th anniversary in a desperate attempt to rekindle their passion. Frederick, who is played by a femme-identifying actor, is looking forward to the perfect anniversary: hiking the park’s trails, wading in the lake, and, most importantly, tracking the whereabouts of a particular bird: the Dickinson Blue-Breasted Warbler. But for Imogen, who is played by a masc-identifying actor, the woods are an entirely undesirable and ultimately unromantic place to spend an anniversary. In the very same campsite, October has arrived for a family campout to find that no one else in her family has shown up. Rather than go home, she decides to use this time to tackle some personal demons. Meanwhile, a pair of camp hosts, Mumbo & Jumbo, are working with Ranger Dave to find the party responsible for a string of apparent campsite robberies. A true ensemble play, The Last Croissant employs magical realism, clowning, and ambitious design work to tell the story of nine crowded campers who hope to find what they’re looking for in the woods.

The Attic Collective is a Los Angeles based community of diverse young artists whose unique approach to live performance strives to redefine theatre, both in who it is for and what it can be. Our work investigates the human experience with equal parts joy and profundity; by utilizing magical
realism, clowning, movement, music, and an emphasis on design, our work tackles these universal questions through a lens of wonder and discovery. We offer our audiences universes unbound by the rules of reality as a sanctuary of escape to, and not from, their own emotions. We create theatre for theatre-lovers, theatre-haters, theatre-skeptics, theatre-believers, theatre professionals, theatre novices, or, put more simply: We create theatre for everyone.

Thurs, June 6th @ 8:30pm
Thurs, June 13th @ 10pm *pay-what-you-can-night!
Fri, June 14th @ 6pm
Sun, June 16th @ 3pm
Thurs, June 20th @ 8:30pm
Fri, June 21st @ 5pm
Thurs, June 27th @ 8:30pm

Find out more about the Attic Collective here:
https://www.theatticcollectivela.com/

Hollywood Fringe Page:
https://www.hollywoodfringe.org/projects/5908

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#thelastcroissant

In 1980, Lee Atwater was a scrappy Southern political strategist. By 1990, he’d changed American politics forever. A year later, he was dead, his spectacular career over in a flash, and his legacy just another story to spin. SON OF A BITCH chronicles Atwater’s journey from ambitious campaign manager to the “Bad Boy” of the Republican Party.

From the HFF’18 award-winning writer of KEEPING UP WITH THE PROZOROVS and the HFF18 award-winning director of A BEAST/A BURDEN, featuring cast members from both productions.

Sex With Strangers

How far will you go to get what you want? Will you be the same person if you do? When twenty-something star sex blogger and memoirist Ethan tracks down his idol, the gifted but obscure forty-ish novelist Olivia, he finds they each crave what the other possesses. As attraction turns to sex, and they inch closer to getting what they want, both must confront the dark side of ambition and the trouble of reinventing oneself when the past is only a click away.

South City Players Guild , Producer/Actor: Jake Ferree, Actor: Melissa Center, Director: Natalie Avital, Writer: Laura Eason

Showtimes: Friday June 7th @5:45pm, Thursday June 13th 6:30pm, Saturday June 22nd 7pm, Wednesday June 26th 12pm, Sunday June 30th 11am

website: https://www.hollywoodfringe.org/projects/5932

Instagram: @jakeferree , @melissacenter , @natster444 , @leasonnyc #sexwithstrangers #sex19 #HFF19

Hard as we try to bury the truth… sometimes it emerges in unexpected ways. Three funny and poignant short plays explore the records we keep and the stories they tell.

In “Dear Diary,” a queer woman discovers 8th grade diary entries detailing her first ever crush on a girl. In “Eguchi,” a woman recounts her great-grandmother’s efforts to preserve her family’s legacy amidst the austerity of World War II Japan. And in “Snow,” congressional archivists piece together official documents torn to shreds by an impulsive president.

Paper Trails premieres at Hollywood Fringe Festival 2019!

Produced by Jillian Profeta

DEAR DIARY written by Helen Burak.

EGUCHI written by Isabelle Pistachio.

SNOW written by CJ Hoke.

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
April 29, 2019

Press Contact: Grace Jasmine
Loudkarmaproductions@gmail.com
602-469-2007

THE MASHER
Three women, a factory, a button, and a diabolical choice.

PREMIERES AT THE HOLLYWOOD FRINGE, 2019

Los Angeles, CA, April 29, 2019. The Masher by Grace Jasmine — a disturbing and often hysterically funny #MeToo allegory where men are held responsible and women are judge, jury and…? Three women of wildly different backgrounds find themselves linked together in a minimum wage factory job where their button pushing has horrifying results. The Masher premieres at Theatre Asylum’s Studio C–6448 Santa Monica Blvd., Los Angeles, CA 90038—June 7-29th, on Theatre Row at the 2019 Hollywood Fringe.

Playwright Grace Jasmine has written a new full-length black comedy exploring a surreal world of #MeToo “what ifs.” A female-centric play with a strong, positive LGBTQ lead, The Masher explores the “new now”—a place where all rules are gone, and a malevolent truth is discovered. Three totally different women, brought together by fate, find suddenly that they control the fate of men.

While The Masher uses a black comedy theme to deliver its message, there is an important underlying message nonetheless—the fantasy premise of The Masher is:  What if we lived in a totalitarian and fascist world where men were exactingly accountable for their actions toward women–and women believed in and used vigilante justice just like men do?

Produced by Loud Karma Productions, directed, written by Grace Jasmine. Starring: Jasmine Morgan Aiken, Meggan Taylor, Allana Mathies, Megan Rees, Blake McCormack, with understudies, Cindy Lopez, Amanda Wagner, and Matt Curtin.

WHERE: Theatre Asylum’s Studio C–6448 Santa Monica Blvd., Los Angeles, CA 90038

PERFORMANCE DATES: (Running time 55 minutes)
June 7, 2019 @6:00 PM
June 9, 2019 @7:00 PM
June 15, 2019 @ 2:00 PM
June 19, 2019 @10:00 PM
June 23, 2019 @8:00 PM
June 29, 2019 @4:00 PM

TICKET PRICE: General Admission: $14.00 – https://www.hollywoodfringe.org/projects/5726
HFF Participants $10.00

 **Admission age: Not appropriate for children under 16.

 ABOUT THE WRITER:

Grace Jasmine (Writer and Director) Grace Jasmine writes in a variety of genres. With 47 nonfiction books in print, she decided to return to her first love, writing for theater. Shows include: Rainbows, Tim Doran, composer (Jasmine wrote, directed, and starred in this show, which was produced first in Los Angeles and then off-off Broadway); The Lover—A Tale of Obsessive Love, Ron Barnett, composer (Lonny Chapman Theatre premier). Jasmine had two original musicals premiere Summer 2017, at the Hollywood Fringe Festival: Sybil’s Closet and F**ked Up Fairy Tales. WeHo times called the song, “Love is Love” Jasmine wrote (With David Anthony, composer) for F**ked Up Fairy Tales “…an incredible song that it merits a place among the classics of musical theatre.” (WeHo Times, July 2, 2017).

She is currently working on two musicals: Skin Deep and The Suicide of Sparkle Jones, and two straight plays: The Rage of Ordinary People and The Masher—the latter appearing this summer at the Hollywood Fringe at Theatre Asylum’s Studio C. Jasmine was recently selected by the Phoenix Art Museum in cooperation with Now and Then Creative Company to create a short original play based on a three-dimensional modern sculpture. At the same festival, Jasmine was tapped to direct “The Drawing Lesson, by Andrea Markowitz, which received an award of merit at the event. Jasmine holds an MFA in Screenwriting and Playwriting from the University of California at Riverside, is a native Californian living in Arizona with her family and is an avid dog lover. Grace Jasmine is a member of the Dramatists Guild. Follow her on Twitter and Instagram @beautynblog.

Comps available for members of the press upon request. Please contact Loud Karma Productions/Grace Jasmine at loudkarmaproductions@gmail.com or call or text 602-469-2007.

Follow The Masher Production on: Twitter: @TheMasher2019, Instagram: @TheMasher2019

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

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A comedic romp through depression, eating disorders and self-loathing!
Crack Whore, Bulimic, Girl-Next-Door is a one-act play chronicling one woman’s journey through her depression and bulimiarexia. It is a painfully funny look at body image, addiction, and the obsession with fitting into society’s ideal of beauty and thinness.
It is part poetry and prose, part sketch and part narrative with a few snappy dance numbers mixed in. Three actresses portray one woman in various stages of her eating disorder and crippling depression. They are joined by one male actor portraying various influences in her childhood development, teenage years and young adulthood.
This autobiographical theatrical experience intimately exposes the perils of womanhood, the rawness of living through sexual trauma and culminates in discovering the inner strength to live comfortably in one’s own skin.

A musical comedy in the style of Gilbert & Sullivan set in the Old Wild West.

All female production team (yay!) – Director – Jennifer Clymer, Choreographer – Julie Barnett, Stage Manager – Jenna Jacobson

June 8 (7pm), June 15 (3:30pm), June 21 (10pm), June 23 (8:30pm), June 29 (5pm) at the McCadden Theater – 1157 N. McCadden Place, Los Angeles, CA 90038

https://www.trialrunproductions.com/gunfight-at-the-not-so-ok-saloon

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Widows Anonymous is a sacred space where five women come together to share their true experience with grief. This is not the pretty lace hanky, wrap it up in three months, tidy grieving, that is expected of women. Rather, it is a wild ride of contradictory feelings that swing from moment to moment as the characters grasp to adjust to their new reality.

Along the way, there is sorrow, but there is also absurd humor. There is a new-found freedom to reveal things they did not dare, and there is an odd wonder at the women they are becoming.

Once upon a time they were wives, now they are widows. Welcome to the front lines.

https://www.hollywoodfringe.org/projects/6001?tab=tickets

performances: June 8 (7:00 pm), June 14 (5:30 pm), June 22 (11:30 am), June 26 (8:30 pm), June 30 (1:00 pm)

“Loose Underwear” by Dagmar Stansova

From exorcisms to orgasms, the daughter of a New Age Holocaust survivor is compelled to “cha-cha” away the wounds of her ancestors. Through the celebratory delight of her loose underwear she finds freedom. And yes… it’s funny.

Dagmar Stansova (Writer / Performer) Award winning writer and critically acclaimed actor, has performed in leading roles off-Broadway, at LaMama and The Public Theatre and in Los Angeles at the Odyssey and West Coast Ensemble. She’s written an award winning screenplay about the Velvet Revolution of 1989 which earned her a Writers Guild of America membership.

Debra De Liso (Director) Award winning director, dramaturg, recipient of the Rainbow Award from the L.A. Women’s Theatre Festival for her decades of work in forgotten communities including artists with disabilities, institutionalized teens and incarcerated women.

Saturday June 8, 2019 – 3:30 pm (preview)

Thursday June 13, 2019 – 9:00 pm

Sunday June 16, 2019 – 6:30 pm

Sunday June 23, 2019 – 7:30 pm

Saturday June 29, 2019 – 5:00 pm

Running time: 60 minutes

Admission age: 16

https://www.hollywoodfringe.org/projects/5795?tab=tickets

“The Institute for The Opposite of Longing”

Written and Directed by Lindsay Beamish and Vanessa Peters

Come see the world premiere of this newly devised innovative and intimate work at The Hollywood Fringe Festival!!

Fifty Shades of Melania
Written and Performed by Liana Mesaikou
Directed by Nicole Williams

Fifty Shades of Melania is a deep-dive comedic take on the various faces of the FLOTUS who doesn’t really care – or does she? – and the complicated spectrum of stereotypes women constantly fight, exploit, or reverse.

Victim or accomplice? Trapped or willing agent? Melania Trump is an enigma; her actions and words contradictory. As both the media and public speculate about the First Lady’s true emotions concerning her husband and the presidency, she maintains an air of mystery – perhaps on purpose.

Join Melania at an exclusive press conference as she tries to get re-elected as the First Lady of the United States, as the press asks such hard-hitting questions as: What is Melania’s favorite movie as a little girl growing up in Slovenia? Will she be able to turn FLYLF into a hashtag? Will we find out which character from GoT Melania identifies with? Which are some of her favorite affirmations? And, of course, does she really care about this country?

Saturday June 8, 1:00 PM

Saturday June 15, 1:30 PM

Wednesday June 19, 10:00 PM

Friday June 28, 6:30 PM

Sunday June 30, 5:00 PM

https://fiftyshadesofmelania.com/

Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/fiftyshadesofmelania/
Twitter: https://twitter.com/shadesofmelania

When David is diagnosed with cancer, he turns to his wife, Lucy, and says “let’s write a musical”. While David and Lucy are experiencing the ups and downs of their cancer journey, so are the characters in their musical comedy on a roller coaster ride. Their musical is based in the 50’s. It is the story of Olive and Blake who are smitten after their first date, but then, a friend interferes with their romance and shenanigans ensue. Of course, love wins out in the end. 

The show is based on a true story: When Lawrie Chiaro Smylie’s husband was diagnosed with cancer, they wrote a musical to keep his spirits up. They performed the show in their living room for 50 friends. Of course, they received a standing ovation. After his passing, Lawrie took the next step to produce it for the Hollywood Fringe Festival with the assistance of director/choreographer John Coppola and the talented team they’ve ensembled. “Let’s write a Musical” will take us on an emotional rollercoaster ride of music, laughter and tears

Book, Music and Lyrics by Lawrie Chiaro Smylie. Story by Lawrie Chiaro Smylie and John Coppola,

Director and Choreographer: John Coppola. Musical Director: Ron Barnett. Costumes: Rob Saduski.  Consulting Producer: Matthew Quinn. Associate Producer: Misty McClure.

Starring: Bil Dwyer, Patricia Gillum, Luke Wall,  Rachael McLachlan, Cameron Gilliam, Chloe Zubiri, Dana Kelly.

Hell’s Finest

By Ashlynn Judy

A sadist, a murderer, and a predator, all share one common goal: to become the leader of the finest cult: the denomination of Abaddon. There’s only one problem. In order to obtain this position, they must go up against each other in a riveting competition to impress the cult’s current leader: Adam.

Shows are approximately 44 minutes

Preview:

Saturday June 8 Midnight, show starts at 12:30

Shows:

Thursday June 13 10 PM, show starts at 10:30

Saturday June 15 Midnight, show starts at 12:30

Saturday June 22 Midnight, show starts at 12:30

Saturday June 28 Midnight, show starts at 12:30

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Jessie’s Messy Mind by Jessie Knowles

Jessie’s Messy Mind was created by artist, activist and mother, Jessie Knowles. It brings the audience inside the world of her experiences with bipolar and schizophrenia using authentic life stories, original music, humor and hope. You’ll follow Jessie as she searches for the truth about herself using the multiple characters that become different aspects of her inner experience, watch Jessie go through the rise and fall of hypo-manic love, y hear as she talks to the voices in her head, and go inside the thought process of a delusional state. All with a wild sense of humor and an enduring positivity, Jessie’s Messy Mind allows us to see the things that people don’t talk about. Jessie has struggled with the way our culture addresses and talks about mental health. She hopes that her show encourages people to change the way they think about their own journey and begin to talk about mental health in a new way.

Directed by Sherry Landrum, Produced by Jessie Knowles, Co-produced by Bridgett Bryant, Executive Producers: Canedy Knowles and Rex Knowles

Showtimes:

Preview: Sat, June 8 @ 11:00pm  Shows: Tue, June 18 @  7:30pm * Sat, June 22 @ 1:00pm * Mon, June 24 @ 9:30pm * Thur, June 27 @ 10:00pm

www.messymindshow.com

www.jessieknowles.com

https://www.facebook.com/messymindshow/

https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCUOeLQxmysjtp0_Pk5w26rA

A BIT MUCH
a solo comedy written and performed by Stacy Dymalski

A LOL funny, insightful, standup comedy, journey that illustrates how women can comfortably step into their own brand of strength and femininity without compromise, while still attracting and maintaining the perfect relationship. Spoiler alert: it’s harder than it looks, but not impossible. Perfect show for any woman who’s ever been told she can be “a bit much!”

Directed by and developed with Jessica Lynn Johnson
Produced by Megan Ford-Miller

Performances are:
Saturday, June 8 at noon
Sunday, June 16 at 4:00 pm
Thursday, June 27 at 6:00 pm

All performances are at the Lounge 1 Theatre

For more info go to https://www.hollywoodfringe.org/projects/5898

Get tickets: Tickets are $18, but use the discount code LAFPI at checkout and your ticket is only $5. To purchase tickets go to https://www.hollywoodfringe.org/projects/5898?tab=tickets

When the head of a Neighborhood Watch program gets fed up with the goings-on in her neighborhood, she takes things into her own hands. Neighborhood Watch, written by Lisa Pedace, is a hilarious comedy about what goes on in the neighborhood and who’s watching.  “Lisa Pedace is a one-woman force in the hilarious Neighborhood Watch.”–Edge Media Network “Quite funny, at times absurdist, and always well-written. Worth Watching.”–San Diego Reader “A laugh-a-minute comedy.”–The San Diego Union-Tribune ”

Saturday, June 8, 2019, 7 pm

Sunday, June 16, 2019, 5:30 pm

Saturday, June 22, 2019, 8:30 pm

Saturday, June 29, 2019, 3:00 pm

Sunday, June 30, 2019, 5:30 pm

http://lisacomedy.com/neighborhood-watch/

#LisaPedace #neighborwatch #hff19

“The Narcissist Next Door” by Ellen Buckley.

Directed by Susan Dalian.

Sebastian is rich (heir to a fish-stick fortune), handsome, gay and unattached. Although independently wealthy, he would really like to establish himself as a professional photographer. His best friend Kate is straight, single, and would like to get her play produced. Meanwhile, she works temp jobs.

Enter Sebastian’s new neighbor Tony. He introduces them to a Peruvian self-help discipline called The Source. Suddenly, Sebastian lands a gig shooting photos of Charo Vergara (Sophia’s hotter sister). Kate lands a new boyfriend, Robert (“He was raised Catholic. He has a job. My mom’s going to love him.”).

There’s just one thing: Tony is one of the most self-absorbed human beings on Earth, an insufferable narcissist who will eventually drive anyone in his orbit bonkers.

Sebastian arranges to go to his photo shoot in Mexico with Kate and Robert. Tony invites himself along. Once there, they are captured by kidnapers who tie them up and threaten their lives.

Can the quartet escape the kidnapers alive? Will Sebastian, Kate and Robert ever escape Tony?

The cast includes Luca Malacrino, Michael Nardelli, Kincaid Walker, Réchard François, Dawn Joyal, Maggie Miguel, Bryce Harrow and Robert Harrow.

Saturday, June 8, 2019 at 6:15 p.m., Saturday, June 15 at 8:15 p.m., Sunday, June 23 at 12:15 p.m., Wednesday, June 26 at 6:15 p.m., Saturday, June 29 at 10:15 p.m.

http://nextdoornarcissist.com

This is a true story of transition, written by and featuring the two women who are living it: Mara, a transwoman, lived most of her life as male. Mimi, a straight ciswoman, was raised in a traditional Catholic family. They met, fell in love, and got married. And everything changed. For both of them.

“My Trans Wife” is a journey through the pain, joys and laughter of their relationship as a trans couple, as Mara struggles with her gender identity and Mimi struggles with letting go of long-held beliefs enough to acknowledge that she could love someone like Mara. It’s this authenticity and commitment that have allowed them to create new realms for love to exist outside of societal norms but completely from the heart.

In today’s “us-versus-them” world, this story seeks to empower others who are “different” and send the message that real love transcends all and is available to everyone.

Directed by Deborah Pearl

More info: www.mytranswife.com

@trans_wife

“Ask A Black Woman” by Shanara “The MouthPeace” Sanders

Non Black people have been asking Shanara all kinds of questions on the streets of L.A. for the past 2 years, on her “Ask A Black Woman” YouTube series. This is a theatrical & poetic response with provocative accounts of living Black in America

Directed by Claudia Duran

Showtimes June 9 at 2:30pm, June 19 at 7pm, June 27 at 8:30pm.

More info: http://hff19.org/5539

Facebook.com/MouthPeaceStar; Instagram.com/TheMouthPeace; Twitter.com/MouthPeaceStar; YouTube.com/ShanaraStar    #askablackwoman #wakandaforever #juneteenth #blackwomen #Black#blackgirlsrock #blackgirlmagic  #onewomanshow #hff19 #lathtr  #actress #writer #producer #hollywood #chicago #inglewood #losangeles

A comedy about death, conceived in grief, birthed by Amrita Dhaliwal & Gemma Soldati. These Accountants of Death work tirelessly to record the death toll. Confined to The Living Room, the occupational hazards wear on these two clowns as they learn the meaning of life and death. An absurd and physical jaunt brimming with existential phone calls, impaired dancing and the love of a goldfish.

FOR BOOKING OR PRESS INQUIRIES EMAIL DHALIDATI@GMAIL.COM

Students of Spymonkey’s Aitor Basauri and Paolo Coletto, and teachers for Cirque du Soleil’s, John Gilkey’s Idiot Workshop in Los Angeles, Amrita Dhaliwal and Gemma Soldati have devised a clown show inspired by their loss of loved ones. Devised and developed at The Lyric Hyperion Theatre, this show rides the very fine line between comedy and tragedy. Employing physical and absurdist theatre techniques, this show leaves the audience laughing and crying and thrust out into the night to ponder it all.

PREMIERING SOON at Hollywood Fringe Festival 2019!

In Fertile, we meet Jenny, a woman with a plan; a plan to get pregnant. Everyone keeps telling her that time is running out – she just turned 35, after all. So, when those urine tests keep coming back negative, Jenny decides to take action and fix the problem. That’s when she runs into real problems…and real questions about fertility and motherhood. As Jenny faces the world of “mom options” – egg freezing, in-vitro, adoption, and more – the conversation about the expectation of procreation really begins. In a sea of outside opinions from her friends, her doctors, a beloved neighbor, and even God, Jenny must ultimately look within to discover what motherhood means to her, what it means to be Fertile.

Tickets at FertileConversation.com #FertileConversation

Sunday June 9, 2:00 PM
Friday June 14, 8:00 PM
Saturday June 29, 6:00 PM
The Lounge Theatre, Santa Monica Boulevard

Heather Dowling (Playwright & Performer) is an actress and writer who impersonated someone who wanted a “real job” since the age of 14. In her first award-winning solo-show UNEMPLOYED. FINALLY, she brought 39 characters to life and made it all the way to 42nd Street, New York City for United Solo – the largest solo theatre festival in the world. It was during the two-year run of UNEMPLOYED. FINALLY. on stages all over Los Angeles that her second show, FERTILE, started to percolate. One of the moments people responded to most from UNEMPLOYED. was Dowling’s personal story of challenges with fertility. Driven by the heartfelt audience response, Dowling decided to share her story more completely and interviewed dozens of women – and men, too – to discover, uncover and encourage a conversation about procreation as an empowered choice. HeatherDowling.com

Jessica Lynn Johnson (Director & Developer) is a published playwright, recipient of BEST NATIONAL SOLO ARTISTAWARD, Board Member of the LA Women’s Theatre Festival, Director for Whitefire Theatre’s SOLOFEST, and Founder & CEO of Soaring Solo LLC. Jessica works as a full time Director & Developer of solo theatre having aided in the development of over 75 solo shows (and still going strong)! As a performer, Jessica has edu-tained international audiences touring her own 25 character one person shows ZE and OBLIVIOUS TO EVERYONE for over 13 years. Over the years, Jessica’s projects have taken home awards such as TOP OF FRINGE, HFF ENCORE PRODUCER AWARDS, TVOLUTION BEST SOLOPERFORMANCE, LARRY CORNWALL AWARD FOR MUSICAL EXCELLENCE & several other accolades! Jessica was most recently nominated Female Director of Distinction in Theatre by Girl Trip LLC at the 2018 Hollywood Fringe Festival. She is honored to be a Guide on Heather’s solo journey for the 2nd time around! JessicaLynnJohnson.com.

“A Year in Dragonfly” written and produced by Austin Musick

Directed by T.M. Hayes

Science has said that the Dragonfly swims as a nymph for almost a year before it begins to fly. This is the true survival story of one woman’s journey after being brutally attacked by her newlywed husband. Using all original poetry and music, Austin Musick shares her navigation back from the darkest corners of fear, shame, and depression as she finds a way to no longer tread the water’s of a painful past and begins to fly in the present towards the bright horizon of the future.

Sunday, June 9th, 4pm – PREVIEW

Thursday, June 20th, 7pm

Friday, June 28th, 8:30pm

The Asylum Studio C, 6448 Santa Monica Blvd, CA 90038

Donations will be taken at the door, all proceeds going to www.domesticshelter.com

Tickets can be found on the Hollywood Fringe Festival Site:

https://www.hollywoodfringe.org/projects/5537?tab=tickets

SUPPORTIVE WHITE PARENTS
A half hour musical

When an Asian girl tells her parents she doesn’t want to be a doctor anymore, she wishes on a shooting star for supportive white parents.

BOOK AND LYRICS BY Joy Regullano
DIRECTED BY Frank Caeti
MUSIC BY The Sam & Tony Show
CHOREOGRAPHY BY Ally Vega
MUSIC DIRECTION BY Tony Gonzalez

CAST: Earl Baylon, Mary Lou Kolbenschlag, Scott Palmason, Joy Regullano, Gregory Lawrence Smith Esq., Giselle Tongi

**Joan Almedilla will be performing on 6/26 and 6/28!

**Gina D’Acciaro will be performing for all the Fringe dates!

Hollywood Fringe Festival

**We are a Fringe scholarship recipient!**

THE BROADWATER SECOND STAGE
6320 Santa Monica Blvd.

Sun 6/9 @ 5:30pm
Sun 6/16 @ 9:30pm
Wed 6/26 @ 10pm
Fri 6/28 @ 5pm
Sun 6/30 @ 11am

Tickets: https://www.hollywoodfringe.org/projects/5601?tab=tickets

More info on FB

A heartwarming story about a Musical Theatre Nerd forced by her family to give up her dreams and get a real job in the real world… as a toy store elf.  Christi Pedigo’s YouTube sensation Bunny the Elf will be sharing her elfing journey LIVE! On stage! With new material and a special update on what is next for Bunny. Will she get promoted to the North Pole? Will the customers crush her spirit? What will happen to her after Christmas?

“Pedigo’s performance is pitch-perfect throughout; the slightly loopy voice, the radiant smile, the limitless physicality, the endearing sincerity project a character we can’t help but love… Her writing is honest and witty… Pedigo has found a wonderful vehicle in Bunny to showcase both her acting and her writing talent…” – Scotty Keister

Recommended for ages 10 , please email bunnytheelf@gmail.com with questions about content for children.

SugarFree: Foster Care Cognitive Dissonance by Shari Walker

“SugarFree: Foster Care Cognitive Dissonance combines the difficult journey of foster youth through my perspective as both a social worker and former foster child. I interspersed poetry, personal narrative, humor, and real-life experiences for a theater experience that tugs at the heartstrings of our greatest human need to connect in the midst of the social welfare system’s inadequacies,” explained Walker.

Throughout June, the one-woman play will shine a spotlight on the unique and life-limiting struggles that foster youth face when transitioning out of foster care. And who better to tell the story than someone who has lived it and now advocates for these young adults. Shari Walker is the writer, producer, and actress of SugarFree: Foster Care Cognitive Dissonance, which will be performed on five dates in June. Walker overcame homelessness, domestic violence and lack of guidance and support to beat the staggering odds that work against youth when leaving the system.

Walker, who is now 28, now holds her Bachelor’s in Pan African American Social Science and is pursuing her Master’s of Social Work.  She is active in a number of non-profit initiatives focused on improving foster care, including Foster Nation and The National Foster Youth Institute led by U.S. Rep. Karen Bass, and received the 2019 Hollywood Fringe Diversity Scholarship.

For more information, go to: @SugarFreeCare on Twitter or @SugarFreeFosterCare on Facebook and Instagram.

When:

Learn more at SugarFreeFosterCare.com

Moral Fixation

Comes to HFF2019!

A debate about morality in the 21st century.

A dark comedy about learning to forgive (ourselves).

Moral Fixation is a dark comedy that tracks Caleb and Claire as they learn what it means to be sober, grown up people in a time when morals and ideals seem to be culturally taboo. When Claire discovers that Caleb dallied with sex workers in the past, she becomes fixated on the symbolism of his actions and struggles with whether or not they define his character. And it sure would be a lot less confusing if she didn’t have her own closeted skeletons. With the help of a relative and friends, they debate whether someone deserves to be judged by the actions of their past. Moral Fixation will premiere at the Hollywood Fringe Festival at Studio C Artists, 6448 Santa Monica Blvd, Los Angeles, CA, 90038 June 9-29th.

Real life couple Cara and Gabe came up with the idea for their dramedy,  ‘Moral Fixation,’ after having their own debate over whether or not paying for sex was a pardonable offense. It led to many an argument over ethics, innate goodness, and whether or not morals even matter that much anymore. As they took the argument out of the home they came to realize a lot of people have opinions about it. Like, really strong opinions.

Written by: Cara Loften and Gabe Berkovich, Directed by: John Coppola. Starring: Veronica Alicino, Gabe Berkovich, Bil Dwyer, Cara Loften, and Kate Robertson

Where: Studio C Artists, 6448 Santa Monica Blvd, Los Angeles, CA, 90038

Performance Dates:

Sunday, June 9th @ 8.30pm

Friday, June 14 @ 8.30pm

Saturday, June 29 @ 2.30pm

Ticket Price: $15

Link: https://www.hollywoodfringe.org/projects/6233

About the Production Team:

Cara Loften (Writer): Cara is an actor—writer-producer based in Los Angeles.  She has various stage and screen appearances, most notably as Prya in the mult-award winning film By The Light of the Moon, Lori in Confessions of a Teenage Jesus Jerk, and in her own short film SEEK, in which she acted, wrote, and produced. Stage credits include YOU, an immersive show that boasts the highest ticket price ever paid, Off-Broadway in #ReganCross, and multiple NYC Fringe shows. This is her first time writing and producing for stage #thrilled!

Gabe Berkovich (Writer) is a comedian, actor, and writer and this is his  first writing venture for the theatre. He has studied with Groundlings, Rob Rustler, and Larry Moss. He has appeared in some crowd favorites such as Entourage and Glee can be caught busting guts at The World Famous Comedy Store. This is his first time at Hollywood Fringe and he is also #thrilled.

John Coppola (Director) is a native of Brooklyn, New York, John Coppola is a multi-talented director and acting coach, whose clients have starred on HBO, Showtime, ABC, CBS, NBC, CW, Netflix, FX, AMC, USA, Lifetime, Fox, WB, TNT and Showcase. As a director, John has helmed more than 100 theatrical productions in New York, Los Angeles and abroad. His credits include groundbreaking productions of Shakespeare, Brecht, John Patrick Shanley and Caryl Churchill, as well as critically acclaimed adaptations of Puccini’s Madame Butterfly and Cabaret.

Crabbe and Goyle are Dead by Kitty Keim

Crabbe and Goyle Are Dead is an absurd comedy exploring the existential crises happening off-stage during a very famous, and equally tumultuous, seven-year span at everyone’s favorite school of witchcraft and wizardry.

Influenced by “Rosencrantz & Guildenstern Are Dead,” this absurdist comedy features beloved (and underused) characters from the Potterverse pondering life’s big questions.

About the playwright: Kitty Keim  is an experienced Shakespearian artist with a BA in English and Theatre from CSU and an MLitt and MFA from Mary Baldwin University.

About the director: Andy Justus is a theatre grad from UC-Santa Cruz and veteran of the Seattle Fringe community with some “peculiar” works under his belt, including some inspired by Lewis Carroll and Franz Kafka.

DATES AND TIMES:

Part of the Hollywood Fringe Festival

Sunday, June 9 – 3:30 p.m. (*preview)

Sunday, June 16 – 9 p.m.

Wednesday, June 19 – 8:30 p.m.

Saturday, June 29 – 10 p.m.

Sunday, June 30 – 3:30 p.m.

https://www.facebook.com/RavenpuffProductions/

#CGaD #HFF19 #lathtr

Sorry About My Friend by Rachel Scott and Xan Herring

For more info, follow along @rachelascott

To Richard! is written and directed by Jessica Durdock Moreno, winner of the Hollywood Fringe Most Unleashed Performance Award and Encore! Producers Award, and the Edinburgh Fringe Outstanding Theatre Performance Award.

Chaos ensues. Hilarity abounds. There may be hugging…  An older white lady, Carol, and a younger Latino man, Andrew, cross paths deep in the woods of Connecticut.  Of course, Carol carries a monogrammed L.L. Bean canvas tote bag.  And Andrew…wait…shouldn’t his name be “Andrés?”  After sufficiently freaking each other out, this comedy of errors quickly devolves into a soul-baring, truth-revealing tête-à-tête, which both pronounces and transcends Carol’s and Andrew’s differences, proving that sometimes polar opposites have more in common than meets the eye.

The Lounge Theatre – 6201 Santa Monica Boulevard LA, CA 90038

Press Representative – Ken Werther Publicity.

PREVIEW: Saturday June 8 2019, 6:00 PM (Pay what you can!)
OPENING: Thursday June 13 2019, 8:00 PM
Saturday June 15 2019, 12:00 PM
Wednesday June 19 2019, 6:00 PM
Friday June 21 2019, 8:00 PM
CLOSING: Saturday June 29 2019, 4:00 PM

Discount code HUG for $10 tickets.

(Writer’s note: I wrote this play while a student at Los Angeles City College…and this is the play that got me accepted into NYU’s Tisch MFA program in Dramatic Writing for fall 2019!  This is also the first play to be produced by my new production company, Pale Horse Craft.)

www.PaleHorseCraft.com / @PaleHorseCraft https://www.hollywoodfringe.org/projects/5789?tab=details

#torichard! #palehorsecraft

Shiva for Anne Frank celebrates girlhood, Jewish identity, and community mourning, while begging the question – did she just make Anne Frank’s death about herself?

Written by and Starring Rachel McKay Steele

Directed by Lauren Campedelli

Co-developed with Lauren Ann Brickman

Produced by Charlie Kanter

Thursday June 13th 6:30 PM

Thursday June 20th 8:30 PM

Saturday June 22nd 10:30 PM

Sunday June 30th 4:00PM

The Flight Theater at The Complex Hollywood – 6472 Santa Monica Blvd.

https://www.hollywoodfringe.org/projects/5696

@rachelmsteele

@shivaforanne (both on instagram)

Tickets $12

(use code: babka for $10 discounts)

Babka and bagels at every show!

Fight Song! by Lauren Baker

Sweetwater, Texas. 1964. The only thing bigger than football is Jesus Christ and women’s hair. Four cheerleaders find consciousness after a deadly car crash. They don’t know why they are here, or how long they’ve been in this dark place- all they know is something is terribly wrong. Both Lucifer and God herself pay a visit, turning Sweetwater drama into something much nastier. Animalistic cruelty meets philosophical debate in this strange nightmare of a story- a never-ending Fight Song.

Friday June 14 2019, 8:00 PM
Saturday June 15 2019, 5:00 PM
Friday June 21 2019, 10:00 PM
Saturday June 22 2019, 5:00 PM
Saturday June 29 2019, 8:00 PM

https://www.hollywoodfringe.org/projects/5706?tab=details

http://instagram.com/fightsongtheplay/

https://twitter.com/FightSongFringe

Alysha and Nick have been together for 7 years, never married and no children.
After Nick arrives home beyond fashionably late for a much needed date night out, he and Alysha begin down the road of discussing their relationship. Through arguing over things all couples can relate to, laughing at old memories , sharing secrets, insecurities, and honest thoughts of how their life could be, they ultimately remind themselves how deep their love is. A knock on the door, however, brings the world crashing down around them.

*Special note from lead actress and producer Amy Argyle-
I saw this play in Mexico City in December (that’s a whole fun story) and even though I did not understand what was being said (the show was in Spanish) I was in tears at the end.
After finding out what it was fully about and what happened in real life to the writer, Paus Marron, that inspired the story, I immediately grasped my heart and asked her if I could bring it to LA. She translated it, and here we are!

The performances are dedicated to my Cousin Matt and his wife. Je t’aime.

Written by Paus Marron (Mexico City)

Directed by Rita Cofield

Produced by Amy Argyle

Show Dates: June 15th 12pm, June 20th 6:30pm, June 23rd 2:30pm, June 29th 2pm

#WINTY #whatinevertoldyou

Octopi Wall Street by Karen Bram Casady comes at the subject of climate change through a series of vignettes, some comedic and some serious, told from the perspective of both human and non-human entities (think drunk birds, drag queen barley, algae and a glacier). The play is based on extensive research of main stream media articles dealing with off-beat aspects of global warming and climate change. The opening monologue of the play recently won a nationally recognized award at the Region 8 Kennedy Center American College Theater Festival as its 2019 Monologue Selection. The show is directed by Susan Marie Jagosz.

Show Times:

Sat June 15 6:30pm
Sun June 16 1:30pm
Thurs June 20 7:15pm
Fri June 21 8:00pm
Fri June 28 – 10:15pm

Website: http://hff19.org/5996

Instagram: @octopi_wall_street

Facebook: fb.me/octopiwallstreet.hollywoodfringe2019

TRASH by Libby Baumgartner, named after the meme (if you will) ‘men are trash’, explores the sexism that women are subjected to on a daily basis. Ranging from the 1980’s to present day, issues explored include abortion, bisexuality, same sex parenting, sexual abuse, the expectation on women to be mothers, ageism, and the lack of representation women of color receive. Full of dry humor and saddening reality, TRASH hopes to resonate with any woman who has ever felt like less simply because of her gender.

Artistic Team:

Director: Libby Baumgartner

Production/Design: Chris Clyne

June 15th @ 5:45pm

June 16th @ 2:15pm

June 22nd @ 8:45pm

June 30th @ 2:15pm

All performances in California Room, Thymele Arts

Instagram: @libbybaumgartner @trash_hff2019 FB: @trashhff2019

#trash

Isaac Easton, a recently retired boxer, and his former sports manager open a gym together to help advance the popularity of female boxing. When their first female boxer gets into trouble only three weeks from the fight, they scramble to find a new fighter to train. Enter Zoey Jones, a young and shy fighter who has never fought in the professional circuit. Easton and Jones take a crash course in trusting and learning from each other over three weeks in preparation for the fight, and the two often butt heads. Can Jones pull out a win and save Easton’s reputation and gym? Through voice overs and grueling workouts in preparation for the fight, this one act play shows the audience how intimate a platonic relationship between a man and woman can be, the beauty of physical strength, and what happens when you are stuck in fight or flight mode.

2Cents Theatre Group’s 2019 Best of INK @Fringe production, Lear/Loman by Kate Schwartz.

Willy Loman crashes into King Lear’s tattered home in Purgatory where they examine the harsh realities of their lives. In this strange dwelling between Heaven and Hell, Lear has frequent and upsetting delusions of his Earthly life, while Loman watches the serious damage he caused his family in life and after his death. Is it too late to learn and to inspire change in those they love?

Featuring Leon Russom as King Lear and Bruno Oliver as Willy Loman, the cast will also include (in alphabetical order) Lauran Dewey, Tim Kopacz, Heather Roberts, Sarah Schulte, and Ruben Uy. Under the direction of Scott Leggett.

Remaining performances Saturday 6/15 at 11:30am; Thursday 6/20 at 5pm; Saturday 6/22 at midnight; and Sunday 6/30 at 1:30pm. Running time is 60 minutes.

This year’s wild Festival Feature was selected out of 11 blocks of 21 plays produced at 2Cents Theatre’s 2019 Acting Out INK Fest of female playwrights to move on to the Hollywood Fringe Festival for this year’s Best of INK @Fringe! 2Cents’ annual INK Fest presents more than 20 plays all written by women over an exciting three-day weekend every March at the Hudson Theatres.

More info: https://www.hollywoodfringe.org/projects/6217

Remaining Performances:

Tuesday June 18 2019, 9:30 PM

Tuesday June 25 2019, 7:00 PM

Saturday June 29 2019, 4:30 PM