#HASHTAG (HASHTAG HASHTAG) AT THE HOLLYWOOD FRINGE 2013

#Hashtag

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE:

Do you suffer from status anxiety? Social gridlock? How do you make your mark on a world where everyone’s an amateur artist and an armchair activist? Where do you go when you don’t know what you want from your career? From your relationships? From life?

#Hashtag is a new comedy directed by Jeffrey Wienckowski (founder and artistic director of the Sons of Beckett Theatre Co) and devised by The Mechanical Heart, a group of UCSD Alumni. It explores the daily struggle to remain engaged in the present moment while immersed in a culture built on social media.

As the audience enters the Elephant Space, they are encouraged to keep their phones ON, take photos and video (which they can upload to Instagram and Youtube) and live-tweet the characters onstage. With #Hashtag, The Mechanical Heart wants to make the never-ending distraction of social media an essential part of the theatrical experience.

#Hashtag is created by and starring: Spencer Howard, Brian Johnson (Co-Founder of Sons of Beckett), Leland Montgomery, Dana Murphy (Co-Founder of Lonesome No More), Nathan Turner, Katie Willert (of Cracked.com) and Jeffrey Wienckowski.

Press Contact: Heidi Wienckowski – [email protected]

FOR CALENDAR
What: #Hashtag
When: June 6-30
June 06 2013, 10:00 PM
June 08 2013, 2:30 PM
June 13 2013, 8:30
June 16 2013, 5:30 PM
June 20 2013, Midnight
June 23 2013, 12:30 PM
June 25 2013, 7:00 PM
June 27 2013, 10:30 PM
June 29 2013, 8:30 PM
June 30 2013, 2:30 PM
Where: Elephant Space-6322 Santa Monica Blvd., LA CA 90038
How: Tickets are $12, to reserve visit http://www.hff13.org/1353