FREAK OUT WINS ENCORE! PRODUCERS' AWARD

Freak Out!

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

FREAK OUT!
Written and Performed by Nancy Murphy
Directed by Terrie Silverman
Contact Nancy at [email protected]

Los Angeles, CA. (June 27, 2016) – Writer Performer Nancy Murphy’s solo show Freak Out!, a funny and serious look at turning 60, has received an Encore! Producers’ Award from the Hollywood Fringe Festival after a four show sold out run at The Actors Company in Los Angeles.

Two new shows are being added on Friday July 8 at 7pm and Saturday July 30 at 6pm. Tickets are $10. and are available online at http://www.theencoreawards.com/projects/3477 and at the door.

Story:
As the clock ticks on the night before her 60th birthday, a woman tries comically and increasingly desperately to come to terms with aging, culture, sexuality, and ultimately mortality. Will she wise up or break down?

Fringe Reviews:
“I liked how she used both humor and poignancy to describe her experience, and was not afraid of serious, deeper moments when so many pieces only skirt the surface.”

“…thoughtful, charming, insightful, and a real pleasure, regardless of how far away you might be from your own 60th birthday!”

“She’s laugh-out-loud funny and yet, this is a journey that goes deeper than the ‘topicals’ she relies on for skin care, this is a journey that leaves us planted firmly in life affirming zone.”

“I like laughing and crying at the same show!”

CALENDAR LISTING
WHAT: FREAK OUT! Encore Shows
WHERE: The Actors Company (Let Live Theatre)
916 A North Formosa Avenue, Los Angeles, 90046
HOW: Tickets are $10
WHEN: July 8 at 7pm, July 30 at 6pm
GENERAL INFORMATION: www.hff16.org/3477

BIOS

Nancy Murphy writes and performs personal stories and poetry. She has appeared in Wendy Hammers’ Tasty Words, Word Now, Max10, Muse Literary Salon, Expressing Motherhood and Lisa Sundstedt’s comedy show Pretty Funny Women. Her poetry has been published in literary magazines including South Carolina Review, Baltimore Review, Eclipse, Louisville Review and Thirteenth Moon. She graduated from Union College in Schenectady NY and has studied writing at UCLA extension, Beyond Baroque and with private teachers including Terrie Silverman, Ann Randolph and Wendy Hammers. This show was developed in Terrie’s Solo Show Master Class.

Terrie Silverman, MFA, is a Writer, Solo-Performer, Director, Dramaturge & founder of Creative Rites Workshops & Coaching. She’s been teaching creative writing and performance for seventeen years to groups and individuals and has helped develop and direct a number of award-winning Solo-Shows. She loves helping people release the inner-critic, discover they have a voice and that their stories matter. She’s facilitated workshops for the California Arts Council, Santa Monica Cultural Affairs Department, the Los Angeles Museum of Contemporary Art, The City of West Hollywood, the L.A. Women’s Theatre Festival, The West Hollywood Book Festival, Screen Actor’s Guild Media Access, the Independent Writer’s of Southern California, LACAMFT- Expressive Arts, UCLArts & Healing, Senior Arts Foundation and Women in Theatre.www.creativerites.com / www.facebook.com/CreativeRites