BADLY AT HOLLYWOOD FRINGE FESTIVAL 2013

BALDY

For Immediate Release
Contact: Yoshiko Usami at (541) 653-6557

YOKKO and in Association with The Ume Group Presents
BALDY
Hollywood Fringe Festival
A production at Asylum Lab
June 16-30, 2013

YOKKO in association with The Ume Group is proud to present BALDY as a part of the Hollywood Fringe Festival.

In this fearless, funny and personal solo show, a young Japanese woman suddenly loses her hair, and in an effort to treat the hair loss, loses her skin. Through her survival she discovers her father’s love, but in order to move forward, she must first go back, to confront the voices that have plagued her since she was 4 years old.

Actor, Movement artist and writer Yokko brings to life nearly a dozen characters, merging movement and memories into a phantasmagoria exploring kinship, cultural expectations and personal identity, weaving the fantastic with the ordinary in her ongoing search for a singular voice.

BALDY was selected to present in New York International Fringe Festival 2012.

Yokko (performer and writer) worked as a professional actor in Japan before coming to the United States to study theatre in Oregon and Albany. She received her MFA in Acting from the Actors Studio Drama School in New York City. Her NYC Credits include The Woolgatherer, The Producers (ASDS Repertory season), BUTOH Electra (Irondale Center, The Forth Street theatre at Fringe NYC 2011), Odyssey (The Wings Theatre) and BALDY and the short plays festival (Dorothy Strelsin Theatre). She is the founder and Artistic Director of JPAC (Japanese Performing Arts Company), a theatre organization committed to sharing Japanese culture through classical Japanese dance and stage combat within drama. She also has many dance & movements credits Oregon, Albany and NYC.

Kaitlyn Samuel (director) is a New York City based director. She is co-Artistic Director of Outside Inside, and a directing student at the Actors Studio Drama School. She has worked with the Gangbusters Theatre in Los Angeles and the Thirteenth Street Repertory in NYC. Previous NYC Fringe involvement includes Chagrin (2011), Julius Caesar (2010) and Woyzeck (2009).

The Ume Group is a performing arts collective in residence at Grace & St. Paul’s Church on Manhattan’s Upper West Side. It was founded in 2011 as a vehicle to produce their flagship dance-theatre work, Butoh Electra. Learn more at theumegroup.org