NEWS RELEASE — BRIMMER STREET THEATRE COMPANY PARTNERS WITH MY FRIEND’S PLACE FOR GENEROSITY.COM FUNDING CAMPAIGN

BRIMMER STREET THEATRE COMPANY
PARTNERS WITH
MY FRIEND’S PLACE
HOMELESS YOUTH RESOURCE CENTER IN HOLLYWOOD

LAUNCHING GENEROSITY.COM FUNDING CAMPAIGN
FOR BRIMMER STREET’S PRODUCTION OF
“AND THEN THEY FELL”
A NEW PLAY BY TIRA PALMQUIST

100% OF ALL TICKET SALES WILL BENEFIT
MY FRIEND’S PLACE

Brimmer Street Theatre Company has announced a unique partnership with My Friend’s Place, a non-profit homeless youth resource center in Hollywood. A Generosity.com fundraising campaign has been initiated for the production of a new play about homeless youth that will donate 100% of its ticket sales to health and wellness services for homeless youth in Los Angeles.

The Generosity.com campaign goal is $20,000. This money will complete the production budget for BSTC’s production of And Then They Fell, a new play by Tira Palmquist about two teenagers who find themselves without stable homes. Brimmer Street estimates it can bring in as much as $60,000 during the planned September run of the show at the Atwater Village Theatre, every penny of which will go to My Friend’s Place. In addition, funds that are raised in excess of the $20,000 production goal will also be donated to My Friend’s Place.

And Then They Fell tells the story of Jordan and Cal, two teenagers who find themselves without stable homes. Jordan has fled a home wrecked by alcoholism and sexual abuse while still trying to graduate high school with honors. Cal is a young transgender boy set adrift by his family’s intolerance and the failure of adults and institutions to help him through a severely vulnerable period of his young life. These two teens find each other, and for a while, they give each other the hope and security they so desperately need.

The My Friend’s Place mission: to assist and inspire homeless youth to build self-sufficient lives. It is a professionally staffed drop-in resource center serving over 1,400 homeless youths ages 12 to 25 (and their children) each year. The primary goal is to lower traditional barriers to service and provide homeless youth with the opportunity to improve their psychological, intellectual, and physical capacity to reach their potential.

Brimmer Street Theatre Company is a non-profit Los Angeles-based performance company with a commitment to develop original theatre and welcome artists whose work challenges established forms and expectations. BSTC strives to form a close ensemble with these artists, craftsmen, students, and benefactors to produce work of exceptional innovation and character.

For more information about the Brimmer Street/My Friend’s Place partnership:

For more information on BSTC: http://www.brimmerstreet.org/.

For more information about the services offered by My Friend’s Place: http://myfriendsplace.org/.

Direct access to the funding page: https://www.generosity.com/fundraisers/and-then-they-fell-a-benefit-for-my-friends-place.

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05-09-16

NEWS RELEASE — “ALL ABOARD THE MARRIAGE HEARSE” BY MATT MORILLO — SIX PERFS ONLY IN HOLLYWOOD FRINGE FESTIVAL

KADM Productions has announced a Hollywood Fringe Festival production of All Aboard the Marriage Hearse, a romantic seriocomic play written and directed by Matt Morillo. Featuring Jessica Moreno and Tom Pilutik, there will be six performances at the Lounge Theatre in Hollywood — Saturday 6/4 at 6pm (press preview); Friday 6/10 at 8pm; Saturday 6/11 at 10pm; Friday 6/17 at 6pm; Saturday 6/18 at 8pm; and Sunday 6/19 at 4pm. Running time will be 70 minutes.

Sean and Amy are your typical co-habiting Catholic/Jewish thirty-something couple living in Manhattan. After four years together, Amy wants to get married but Sean doesn’t. Sean will try to talk Amy out of marriage; Amy will try to talk Sean into it. Will they break up? Will they keep traveling on the same path? Or will they climb aboard the ‘Marriage Hearse?’

All Aboard the Marriage Hearse had its world premiere in New York City in 2008. The play also caught the attention of renowned marriage counselor Rabbi Shmuley Boteach who began a public debate with playwright Morillo on the institution of marriage. In 2015, All Aboard the Marriage Hearse ran to great acclaim in Croatia and Mexico and is now receiving productions throughout the USA. In this new production at the Hollywood Fringe, Jessica Moreno returns for the first time to the role she created in the play’s 2008 debut.

Award-winning playwright/director Matt Morillo made his theatrical debut in New York with Angry Young Women in Low Rise Jeans with High Class Issues. The play had an off-Broadway run in 2007, followed by multiple engagements in Hollywood, and Sydney, Australia. Angry Young Women enjoyed several return engagements in 2009, 2010, and 2011. It also ran in the 2014 Edinburgh Fringe Festival (as well as being developed into a web series). All Aboard the Marriage Hearse, similar to Angry Young Women, traveled the world, having successful runs in Ohio, Illinois, Mexico, and Croatia. Morillo’s first serious play, American Soldiers, a family drama about a woman war veteran’s return to her home in Long Island, has been produced in New York, Hollywood, and Florida. All three plays have been published by Samuel French. Morillo’s next play, a return to comedy with The Inventor, The Escort, The Photographer, Her Boyfriend and His Girlfriend, had an acclaimed Los Angeles engagement followed by a run at the 2013 Edinburgh Fringe Festival, where it won the Fringe Review Tea Pot Award for Best Theatre Performance. Morillo’s latest play, the serio-comic Allen Wilder 2.0, is about an alcoholic, soft-core porn director trying to put his life back together, was recently performed in New York to critical acclaim.

Tickets for All Aboard the Marriage Hearse are $15 and may be obtained online at http://www.hollywoodfringe.org/projects/3605?tab=tickets or www.kadm.com, or by phone at (323) 455-4585. The Lounge Theatre is located at 6201 Santa Monica Boulevard (just east of Vine, at El Centro), in Hollywood, 90038. Street parking is available.

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05-05-16

NEWS RELEASE — WEB SERIES “ACTING DEAD” SUBMITS FOR PRIMETIME EMMY AWARD CONSIDERATION IN NEW SHORT FORM CATEGORY

FOR YOUR CONSIDERATION
WEB SERIES ACTING DEAD
SUBMITTED FOR PRIMETIME EMMY AWARDS
NEW SHORT FORM COMEDY CATEGORY

Acting Dead, a comic web series created by Brian Beacock and produced by Beacock, Susan Bernhardt, and Paul Nygro, has been submitted for Primetime Emmy Award nomination consideration in the Television Academy’s new expanded Short Form Comedy categories. The series is submitted for: Outstanding Short Form Comedy — Acting Dead; Outstanding Actor in a Short Form Comedy — Brian Beacock; Outstanding Actress in a Short Form Comedy — Jillian Clare and Patrika Darbo.

Acting Dead tells the story of Tate Blodgett (Beacock), a down on his luck, unemployed actor, who after being turned down for role after role, decides to take matters into his own hands and become a Zombie so he can finally get work in the many Zombie movies and television shows being made. Along the way, as things aren’t working out so well, he meets Alex Carboneux (Clare), a former child star whose temper has stalled her career. Alex decides to take matters in her own hands, which doesn’t turn out so well either.

Brian Beacock and Susan Bernhardt are known for their earlier web series, the critically acclaimed McCracken Live! (Beacock) and Miss Behave (Bernhardt). Acting Dead, a ‘Zom-Com’ which has been gleefully described as Shaun of the Dead meets Arrested Development, boasts a wide array of talent. Along with Beacock and Clare, additional series regulars are Chris Galya, Patrika Darbo, Paul Nygro, and John Yelvington. Season One guest stars are Debbie Gibson, Eric Martsolf, Carolyn Hennesy, Sean Kanan, John J. York, Cocoa Brown, Christine Lakin, Lori Alan, Erin Matthews, Gary and Larry Lane, Peter Allen Vogt, Sheila Sheila, Mitch Silpa, and Jacee Jule.

Season One of Acting Dead is now available for viewing at www.actingdead.com. Voting begins on June 13 and ends on June 27.

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05-03-16

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