YOUR MOTHER'S VAGINA OPENS AT SACRED FOOLS STUDIO, JUNE 10 FOR THREE SHOWS ONLY!
Your Mother's Vagina
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
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YOUR MOTHER’S VAGINA OPENS AT THE 2016 HOLLYWOOD FRINGE FESTIVAL
51% of the world has one…50% of the world is trying to get up in one…
100% of the world has come out of one
Sacred Fools Theatre
June 10th – 12th
Tickets available at hollywoodfringe.org
www.yourmothersvjj.com
Los Angeles, CA — May 27, 2016 — Rhombus Ensemble is proud to present the world premiere of Amy Chaffee’s YOUR MOTHER’S VAGINA, starring Beth Gudenrath and Rachel Hirshorn. The dark comedy follows the friendship of two working women battling their demons with wit and grit. In YOUR MOTHER’S VAGINA, comedy is the only refuge.
About YOUR MOTHER’S VAGINA
Set in a Hollywood “Industry” brasserie, told in three short scenes, two women discover friendship through the hilarity of sex, fertility and even find the funny in missed motherhood. Leila, a young starlet /bartender has a secret pregnancy that Sue Anne, part-time professor/part-time cocktail waitress discovers. After challenging each other’s motives and morals, each woman sparks the other to make unexpected choices. With humor, love and brutal honesty, together they triumph over adversity, the Hollywood machine and lousy tips.
After the initial run in Los Angeles, Rhombus Ensemble hits the road for a 6 city tour of “Your Mother’s Vagina.” Dublin is first on July 14, 2016 in conjunction with the Freedom and Focus Conference at Smock Alley in association with the Gaiety Theatre School. www.freedomandfocusconference.org. “Your Mother’s Vagina” then rolls down to the low countries, Luxembourg and Belgium, for five nights in Luxembourg, Ghent, Antwerp and Brussels. The final showing of “Your Mother’s Vagina” in Europe is (August 4-7) at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe at the historic Spotlites venue on Hanover Street. Tickets are available beginning June 6. www.edfringe.com In short, “Your Mother’s Vagina” gets around.
About Rhombus Ensemble
Rhombus Ensemble is a creative collective dedicated to subversive, disruptive and irreverent art and intends to overturn the patriarchy with humor, persistence and joy.
Biographies
Amy Chaffee (Playwright/Director/Co-Producer)
Amy is an actress of 40 years in film, television and theatre. She misspent her youth in the midwest, New York and London. Recent productions directed: Rhombus Ensemble’s MPAKA KUDZOZA (Point of Inspiration) – A Voice Theatre production; Number 10 for Ensemble Studio Theatre – LA Winterfest; Horse Latitudes, also for EST-LA. Founder and co-Artistic Director of Door Shakespeare from ‘94 – ’97. Amy is a voice coach on set for film and tv since 2006. Recent gigs include: Bill Hader-helmed pilot for HBO, “Barry.” Oscar-Winner John Ridley’s debut film, the Jimi Hendrix biiopic, “All is By My Side.” Also, the boxing-love story, upcoming independent movie, "Heart Baby.” Amy is currently a part-time lecturer at UCLA in the Department of Theatre where she teaches voice, speech and somatic experiencing. She is a certified Associate Teacher of Fitzmaurice Voicework, a member of VASTA and ATHE and has presented workshops and papers at both conferences international and in the US. "Your Mother’s Vagina" is her fifth play produced since 2000. She is proud to be keeping company with the artists of Rhombus Ensemble. You can find out more about her at amychaffee.com or at imdb.com.
Beth Gudenrath (Actress/Producer – LEILA)
Beth has been seen on screen in “The Princess Diaries I & II,” Medium, recurring parts on SHOWTIME’S Shameless, American Dreams on NBC, and several American Soap Operas. On the world wide web she is a series regular on “Where”, “The Series”, And Boris, and back in the day on DEN’s “Frat Ratz”. Her passion, other than performing, is teaching and healing through voice. She’s won several Hinky Awards for her singing and acting at the Academy of Weird Arts and Sciences, favorites include Who’s Afraid of Virginia Weird, American Weirdity, and her tin foil parody of Lady GaGa: Lady GooGoo. You can find out more about her at elizabethgudenrath.com or at fitzmauricevoicewithbeth.com.
Reviews for Beth’s performance in the 2014 Hollywood Fringe Festival’s “Chicken in a Box”:
“I was completely moved by her performance. The lead, Elizabeth Gudenrath flawlessly captures the simultaneously charming and uncomfortable depths of universal humanness…” ~Darby McCullough Certified Reviewer Hollywood Fringe
"Quick humor laced between heartfelt dialogue she was not only moving, but a truly inspiring… she brought her own unique quirkiness, drawing the audience in and captivating them through life being lived. …Glorious." ~Gabrielle Reyes Certified Reviewer Hollywood Fringe
Praise for Beth in Theatre Tribe’s World Premiere of “The Intern”:
“Beth Gudenrath finds all the colors in Cellini’s script, making Diana cute, bright, infuriating and passionate.” ~Curtain Up LA Review
Rachel Hirshorn (Actress/Producer – SUE ANNE)
Rachel is an Assistant Professor of Voice & Speech at Texas Tech University. She’s a certified Associate Teacher of Fitzmaurice Voicework®, an active member of the Voice and Speech Trainers Association (VASTA) and Actors’ Equity Association (AEA). Recent regional dialect coaching: Three Little Birds, James and the Giant Peach (Adventure Theatre – MTC), A Christmas Carol (Ford’s Theatre), Julius Caesar, A Midsummer Nights’ Dream and A Tale of Two Cities (The National Players), Carousel (Olney Theatre). Rachel also coaches individuals, government and corporate clients in voice, breath support, dialect modification and public speaking and presentation skills. Favorite acting credits: Macbeth, Illyria (Virginia Shakespeare Festival), Marion Bridge (Kansas City Actors Theatre), Of Mice and Men
(Tidewater Regional Repertory), “Inexcusable Fantasies” (Prague International Fringe Festival, NY International Fringe Festival), Killer Joe (UMKC). Rachel is also an on-camera host and very active with her myriad communities. Several of Rachel’s on-going outreach projects have garnered a plethora of local attention and press, and more importantly, helped to facilitate a burgeoning interest in local art and culture, while strengthening the community. Submit 10 Baltimore – a project Rachel created, produced, organized, and hosted in the growing Station North Arts & Entertainment District of Baltimore – combines a multi-cultural array of talented local writers with talented local performers in a “spontaneously cast, ego-free” night of short readings and has played in bars on North Avenue for months, ultimately transforming their usual slow Mondays into bustling performance nights, populated with eager patrons. In 2012, Rachel received a Think Big award from the National Endowment for the Arts for her work on “Submit 10 Baltimore”. More info/reviews available at rachelhirshorn.com.
“… the boisterous, electric Hirshorn…in this delightful and sharply comic scene…is a joy as a slightly unhinged follower of Stewart, clutching her scrapbook and espousing all that is good and noble about Martha Stewart Living in one of the funnier monologues of the show.”
“’Inexcusable Fantasies’…to miss this show would be inexcusable” ~Rachael Collins, Expats.cz June 5, 2013
“…the final monologue, which Hirshorn delivers flawlessly…she is describing a total loss of ego…”
“Actors’ Theatre builds potent connection with Marion Bridge” ~Robert Trussell, KC Star August 28th,
2010
PRODUCTION AT A GLANCE
WHAT:
Rhombus Ensemble presents
YOUR MOTHER’S VAGINA
Written and Directed by Amy Chaffee
Starring: Beth Gudenrath, Rachel Hirshorn
Produced by Amy Chaffee, Beth Gudenrath, Rachel Hirshorn
WHEN:
Saturday, June 10, 2016 at 10:00 PM (Opening Night)
Saturday, June 11, 2016 at 9:00 PM
Sunday, June 12, 2016 at 11:00 AM
WHERE:
2016 Hollywood Fringe Festival
Sacred Fools Theatre
1017 Lillian Way, Los Angeles, CA 90038
TICKETS:
$12
To purchase visit: hollywoodfringe.org
Further information can be found at: yourmothersvjj.com
