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NEWS RELEASE ▪︎ “THREE BLIND DATES: SEE HOW THEY RUN!” SET FOR HOLLYWOOD FRINGE FESTIVAL

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THREE BLIND DATES:

SEE HOW THEY RUN!

THREE ONE-ACT PLAYS

BY JOHN DOBLE

DIRECTED BY JC GAFFORD

 

2018 HOLLYWOOD FRINGE FESTIVAL

SIX PERFORMANCES ONLY

JUNE 2, 7, 17, 18, 21, 23

 

Three Blind Dates poster​11 West Productions has announced a Hollywood Fringe Festival production of Three Blind Dates: See How They Run!, three one-act plays written by John Doble and directed by JC Gafford at the Stephanie Feury Studio Theatre beginning June 2, at 2pm. The plays are A Serious Person, Tatyana and the CableMan, and Coffee House, Greenwich Village. The cast will feature (in alphabetical order) Nikk Alcaraz, Jessica Beligni, Eric Bettencourt, Brittany Gandy, Meghan Modrovsky, and Nick Moss.

 

​Performance dates and times are as follows — Saturday 6/2 at 2pm; Thursday 6/7 at 9pm; Sunday 6/17 at 12:30pm; Monday 6/18 at 7pm; Thursday 6/21at 5pm; and Saturday 6/23 at 4:30pm. Running time is 80 minutes.

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Three blind dates — no problem, right? A Navy vet meets a woman with convictions about everything from cannibalism to the crucifixion. Then East meets West as a beautiful Russian woman encounters a Fox-News-loving cable man. Finally, in a coffee house, a lonely man meets a femme fatale. 

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About Three Blind Dates: See How They Run! — These plays have won acclaim at the LaBute New Theater Festival in NYC and St. Louis, at the MidtownInternational Theatre Festival in NYC, the Eclectic Company Theatre in Los Angeles, the Nantucket Short Play Festival, the Segora One-Act Play Competition inFrance, and the One Festival in London as well as the Belper Best Play Prize.

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Director JC Gafford has been on the Los Angeles theatre scene since 1986. He has degrees from LA Valley College, Cal Arts, and New York University. He is an award-winning director, designer, and production stage manager as well as theatre generalist who over the last 20 years has worked with such acclaimed actors as RonnMoss, Michael T. Weiss, and Richard Kind and at such notable theatres as LATC and the Zephyr in LA, MerkinConcert Hall and Provincetown Playhouse in New York, and many others. He is co-founder of InfinitusTheatreworks, a theatre arts consultation, services, and design firm.

 

​John Doble’s plays include A Serious Person, Tatyana and the Cable Man, Coffee House, Greenwich Village, To Protect the Poets, Reunion Run, The Mayor Who Would Be Sondheim, Ten Commandments, and The Mortgage. In addition to NYC and LA, his plays have been produced in Nantucket MA; Burlington WI; Binghamton NY; Hudson, NY; Sonora, CA; and in London, Arundel, Westcliff-on-Sea, and Belper, UK. Hisplays have received acclaim in numerous national competitions. His short stories have appeared in various literary magazines and a collection, Lefty and Other Stories, was published by Clemson University and nominated for the Southern Book Award. 

​The Hollywood Fringe Festival is an annual, open-access, community-derived event celebrating freedom of expression and collaboration in the performing arts community. Each June during the Hollywood Fringe, the arts infiltrate the Hollywood neighborhood: fully equipped theaters, parks, clubs, churches, restaurants and other unexpected places host hundreds of productions by local, national, and international arts companies and independent performers.

Tickets for Three Blind Dates: See How They Run! are $12 and may be purchased online at www.HFF18.org/5078 or by phone at (323) 455-4585. The Stephanie Feury Studio Theatre is located at 5636 Melrose Avenue in Hollywood, 90038.        

 

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05/14/18


NEWS RELEASE ▪︎ HOLLYWOOD FRINGE FESTIVAL AWARD-WINNING HIT COMEDY “THANKSGIVING” PLAYS FINAL TWO PERFORMANCES AT THEATRE UNLEASHED ▪︎ AUGUST 4 & 5

SAMOVAR SUBWAY ENSEMBLE PRESENTS
THANKSGIVING
A WORLD PREMIERE COMEDY
BY TIFFANY CASCIO
DIRECTED BY KITTY LINDSAY
✰UNLEASHED AWARD✰
FINAL ENCORE PERFORMANCES
AUGUST 4 & 5 at 8pm
AT THEATRE UNLEASHED IN NOHO

ThanksgivingSamovar Subway Ensemble’s acclaimed Hollywood Fringe Festival production of Thanksgiving, a world premiere comedy by Tiffany Cascio, will play two final encore performances on Friday, August 4 and Saturday, August 5 at 8pm at Theatre Unleashed in North Hollywood.

Nominated for five awards and designated as Pick of the Fringe, Thanksgiving won the Beyond Bechdel–Wallace Award (sponsored by Broads’ Word Ensemble), the Unleashed Award (sponsored by Theatre Unleashed, which makes these two final performances possible), and the Encore! Producers’ Award. The show was also nominated for the ShoWorks Don’t Wait Create! Award (sponsored by ShoWorks Entertainment) and Best Comedy.
The cast features (in alphabetical order) Trip Langley, Susan Louise O’Connor, Asia Lynn Pitts, Gary Poux, Sharon Spence, and Allison Youngberg. The creative team includes Kit Whitten (set design), Brandon Baruch (lighting design), Sharon Spence (costume design), and James Ferrero (sound design). Fight choreography is by Dane Oliver, the stage manager is Taylor Jackson Ross, and Allison Youngberg is the producer for Samovar Subway Ensemble.

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. Running time is 90 minutes.

Tickets for the two final performances of Thanksgiving are $15 and may be obtained online at www.theatreunleashed.org. Theatre Unleashed is located at 11031 Camarillo Street in North Hollywood, 91602.

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07-27-17

 

L to R — Allison Youngberg, Asia Lynn Pitts, Susan Louise O’Connor. Photo by Cali Bloomfield.

NEWS RELEASE ▪︎ “A HARMONY BOYS CHRISTMAS” at HOLLYWOOD FRINGE ▪︎ ONLY THREE PERFORMANCES REMAIN

“A Harmony Boys Christmas is like a sweet holiday confection laced with crack.”
—Patrick Hurley, That Awesome Theatre Blog

🎄 IT’S CHRISTMAS IN JUNE 🎄
AT THE HOLLYWOOD FRINGE FESTIVAL

Harmony Boys Christmas

Photo by Casey Kringlen.

A HARMONY BOYS CHRISTMAS
ONLY THREE PERFORMANCES REMAIN!
FRIDAY, JUNE 16 AT 9PM
WEDNESDAY, JUNE 21 AT 10:30PM
SATURDAY, JUNE 24 AT 8:30PM
SACRED FOOLS THEATER MAIN STAGE IN HOLLYWOOD

The legendary Harmony Boys have returned to Southern California and they’ve brought Christmas 1962 with them! Only three performances remain in the 2017 Hollywood Fringe Festival.

Renowned singing sensations The Harmony Boys are presenting their annual yuletide fundraising concert to benefit their charity “Force Feed the World” (in which they shove food and their personal, cultural, and religious beliefs down the throats of the less fortunate during the holiday season). It’s a singing, dancing, musical comedy extravaganza brimming with heartfelt but provocative satire, at once evoking nostalgia for our nation’s past while dissecting its many shortcomings of the present day.

The Harmony Boys are (in alphabetical order) Michael Hoy, Aaron Matijasic, Gabriel Oliva, and Al Rahn. The design team includes production designer Alexa Camargo, choreographer Jen Oundjian, and musical director Ben Stanton. A Harmony Boys Christmas is written and directed by Aaron Matijasic. Jon Tosetti is producer.

Performance running time is one hour. Admission is $15 and tickets are available online at http://hff17.com/4661 or by calling (323) 455-4585. The Sacred Fools Theater Main Stage is located at 1076 Lillian Way (just west of Vine), in Hollywood, 90038.

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06-14-17

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