DORA AND ME/ YO SOY DORA OPENS JUNE 13!

Dora and Me/ Yo soy Dora

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE:

Writer/Producer Rick Creese is excited to announce the world premiere of DORA AND ME/ YO SOY DORA at the Dorie Theatre at the Complex: 6476 Santa Monica Blvd., Hollywood, CA 90038. This one-woman show, starring Amy Urbina, will open on June 13th for a run of four shows at the 2015 Hollywood Fringe Festival.

Contact: Rick Creese at [email protected]

Here’s the schedule:
Saturday, June 13: 1:30
Sunday, June 14: 4:30
Saturday, June 20: 1:00
Saturday, June 27: 2:00

In DORA AND ME/ YO SOY DORA, Dora Valverde is a frustrated Latina actress in L. A. who wants to tell us the true story of her idol and role model Dora Jordan, the “Mother of Comedy.” Known as “Mrs. Jordan,” though she never married, she was the most beloved and most notorious actress of the English stage, mother of fourteen illegitimate children, and the long-term, live-in girlfriend of the future King William IV. But like one-women shows everywhere, this one gets a little self-indulgent and Dora has a hard time talking about anything but herself. Luckily the ghost of Mrs. Jordan—or her spirit, or something—appears on stage to help the Los Angelina tell the story. (Is this Magical Realism?) Ranging from laugh-out-loud funny to heartbreakingly sad, the play finally gets both women’s stories told. And for both the message is the same: For women, comedy is freedom.

AMY URBINA* recently starred in TERRIBLE LOVE, which made its world premiere at the Austin Film Festival in October and won the Audience Award for Best Narrative Feature Film. You can also catch Amy being a goofball in her web sketch comedy show THE AMY AND DEV SHOW. She is working on still another web series called SUPER WAGS. She has played a number of roles in Independent Shakespeare Company productions in Los Angeles, including Desdemona in OTHELLO, Roxane in CYRANO, and Celia in AS YOU LIKE IT. Amy is originally from Los Angeles and holds an MFA in Acting from the University of Missouri, Kansas City and a BA in Theatre Arts from Cal State, Northridge. She would like to thank Rick for writing such multi-faceted characters and for this opportunity to share this story. To everyone who has been involved in this play from the beginning, a huge thank you. En garde! <www.amyurbina.com; www.amyanddevshow.com>.
*Member of Actors Equity Association, the Union of Professional Actors and Stage Managers in the United States.

RICK CREESE (Writer) wrote SOLEMN MOCKERIES, which starred David Melville and won the award for Best Period Piece at the 2013 United Solo Festival at Theatre Row, New York. The play’s world premiere was in February 2013 in Los Angeles, produced by the Independent Shakespeare Company. LA Weekly called the play “brutally funny and brutally sad.” His one-man show, BRIGHT SWORDS, starring Ryan Vincent Anderson, is also featured in this year’s Hollywood Fringe Festival. Rick wrote and coproduced the documentary film THE MAN WHO LOST THE CIVIL WAR (narrated by Morgan Sheppard), which was broadcast on select PBS stations and distributed by the University of New Mexico Press. He is a lecturer at UCLA Writing programs and the UCLA Honors Collegium.

LEXI LEE (Director) graduated with a BA in Theater in 2013 from the University of California, Santa Barbara’s selective Directing Program. She is also a trained and enthusiastic actress and singer and neophyte circus aerialist who hopes to soon get back on the wagon (or rather, back off the ground and into the air). She is proud to have worked as Assistant Director to Jacob Harvey on the Theatricians’ recent production of the very dark comedy MR. MARMALADE, and is looking forward to directing Rick Creese’s next play SUICIDE LIVE. Thanks as always to my wonderfully supportive family and to my partner in crime Geno, for helping me stay sane and motivated.