EDINBURGH FRINGE SELL-OUT TUDOR DRAMA MAKES STATESIDE DEBUT

Tier 5 Theatre Project presents
Ladies in Waiting: The Judgement of Henry VIII
a play by James Cougar Canfield

performing as a part of Hollywood Fringe Festival
Select dates throughout June 2017:
12th at 8:30pm | 14th at 7:00pm
17th at 2:30pm | 18th at 1:00pm | 24th at 4:00pm

Asylum @ Stephanie Feury Studio Theatre
(SFS Theatre Mainstage) 5636 Melrose Ave

Tickets go sale May 1st at http://hff17.com/4200

What’s a Tudor monarch to do when he has to face all six of his wives in the afterlife?

After a critically acclaimed and sell-out run at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival in August 2016, Tier 5 Theatre Project is excited to bring award-winning playwright James Cougar Canfield’s new play, LADIES IN WAITING: THE JUDGEMENT OF HENRY VIII stateside for its national premiere at the Hollywood Fringe Festival. LADIES IN WAITING is a sexy, heartbreaking, humorous, and dark exploration of Henry VIII and his relationships with the women in his life… with a feminist twist.

Originally workshopped, performed, and produced by graduates of England’s East 15 Acting School’s MA Acting and MFA Acting International programs, LADIES IN WAITING finds King Henry VIII in a purgatory-like situation, where one by one he must face off with each of his wives. Through dark humour, devastating truths, sexy seductions, and powerful revelations, Henry comes face to face with what his legacy has become: one entirely defined by women.

During its sell-out Edinburgh Fringe run, LADIES IN WAITING received immense critical praise, with multiple four stars reviews, a Top 10 Ranking on Broadway Baby’s Theatre List, and an Eddie Award nomination from London’s Drayton Arms Theatre.

As a playwright, Canfield is the previous winner of the Texas Educators Theatre Association’s Playfest Award, shortlisted for North Carolina ArtCenter’s 10 by 10 in the Triangle Award, and recognized as the top playwright in the Tony Award winning Alley Theatre’s Houston Young Playwright Exchange. Canfield will also appear in the production as the king himself, Henry VIII.

Henry’s wives will be portrayed by: Hilary Kelman (Catherine of Aragon), Wendy Kenney (Anne Boleyn), Laryssa Schoeck (Jane Seymour), Jennifer Haining (Anne of Cleves), Elli Brown (Catherine Howard), and Claiborne Tomlinson (Katherine Parr).

 Directed by Mitchell Glass, a MFA Directing graduate from East 15 Acting School, LADIES IN WAITING will perform at Theater Asylum’s Stephanie Feury Studio Theatre, select dates throughout June. $15 a ticket. Tickets on sale May 1st at http://hff17.com/4200.

For further information, please contact James Canfield on 281-795-1662, via e-mail at [email protected], or visit us on Twitter (@LadiesInW8ting) or Facebook (facebook.com/LadiesinWaitingHenryVIII).