BE FLAT PRODUCTIONS PRESENTS THE WORLD PREMIERE OF NO HOMO
NO HOMO
Be Flat Productions Presents The World Premiere of
NO HOMO
Written by Brandon Baruch
Directed by Jessica Hanna
At The Hollywood Fringe Festival in Los Angeles
Tuesday, June 10, 2014 – Sunday, June 29, 2014
LOS ANGELES, CA. MAY 8TH 2014 – It was announced today that Be Flat Productions will present the world-premiere of NO HOMO – A Bromantic Tragedy in the 2014 Hollywood Fringe Festival for 6 performances only. NO HOMO is written by Fringe Veteran Brandon Baruch and directed by Bootleg Theater’s Managing and Producing Director Jessica Hanna. NO HOMO will play at Schkapf Menagerie (6567 Santa Monica Boulevard) June 10-29, 2013.
NO HOMO tells the tale of Luke and Ash, two Los Angeles urbanites who identify as heterosexual, even though their friendship is totally gay. Their friends and family refuse to acknowledge the platonic nature of their relationship, and eventually the men themselves start to question their own sexual identities, leading to a drunken evening that their friendship might not survive.
Playwright Brandon Baruch explains his inspiration for writing the play: “Growing up in and around West Hollywood, my sexual orientation has never been a big part of my identity. I feel like most LGBT theater, film, and literature concentrates on the characters’ struggles to create an identity and find acceptance. But that’s simply not my experience. NO HOMO is less about the struggle to accept one’s sexual identity than it is about the quest to understand one’s sexual identity. It also validates my theory that a person doesn’t have to be homosexual to be really, really gay.”
NO HOMO features Lizzie Adelman, Benjamin Durham, Elizabeth Ellson, AJ Jones, Henry McMillan, and Jonny Rodgers.
Production staff for NO HOMO includes Jessica Hanna, director; David Offner, scenic design; Ric Zimmerman, lighting design; Corwin Evans, sound design; Laura Wong, costume design; Brittany Blouch, properties design; Mara De La Rosa, assistant director and stage manager; Max Oken, producer.
NO HOMO will be Brandon Baruch’s fourth original work featured in the Hollywood Fringe Festival. His last Hollywood Fringe play, Me Love Me, was also selected as an official participant in the 2013 New York International Fringe Festival, where and was lauded by critics as “a smart, satirical look at the moments of human crisis that erupt in the haze of LA drug culture” and “funny and disturbing, as it steers us down paths that make the viewers shift in their seats.”
Director Jessica Hanna is a Los Angeles based theater artist. She is Co-Founder, Producing & Managing Director of Bootleg Theater. She has directed at various spots around town including Abundant Sugar at the Brewery and at Occidental College, where she first met playwright, Brandon Baruch. She has produced over 100 productions and events at Bootleg since 2006. And she was last seen on stage in Jami Brandli’s SOE in March 2013. Her work is influenced by over 10 years of training and working with Anne Bogart and the SITI Co. She holds a BFA in Acting from DePaul University. She produced Michael Franco’s THE INTERVIEW at last year’s Hollywood Fringe Festival.
Schkapf Menagerie (formerly Artworks Theater), 6567 Santa Monica Blvd Los Angeles, CA 90025
NO HOMO plays for 6 performances only.
FOR YOUR LISTINGS:
NO HOMO
Tuesday, June 10 @ 7:30pm
Thursday, June 12 @ 7:30pm
Friday, June 20 @ 10:00pm
Monday, June 23 @ 7:30pm
Thursday, June 26 @ 6:00pm
Sunday, June 29 @ 3:00pm
$15.00 general admission
$14.00 Fringe participants
90-minute run time
Tickets are available at www.hff14.org/1568
For more information visit: www.nohomoplay.com
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