PRESS RELEASE: LONGHORNS

Longhorns

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
May 5, 2017

Premier of Longhorns, a one-act play in the Hollywood Fringe Festival 2017

Performance Dates:
Sun. 6/4 6:30pm (preview)
Sat. 6/10 10:30pm
Mon. 6/12 8:30pm
Sun. 6/18 6pm
Sat. 6/24 1:30pm

Opening Night: Saturday, June10 at 10:30pm

HOLLYWOOD, CA – In a dingy doughnut shop in the mystical depths of Hollywood, celebrity aficionado Cindy and her co-worker Joe get an unexpected customer and another hum-drum day goes very sideways as their insecurities and ambitions take the reins. Combining direct drama with comic happenstance and fringe characters whose import suddenly rings with significance just as we least expected it, this ensemble of characters each have a very different story in the same thunder storm.

The Cast
Zoë Simpson Dean (Cindy)
Shevalier Shehantha (Joe)
Vincent Isaac (Steve)
Ben Russell (Clu)
Benjamin Hoekstra (Jimmy Razor)
Rossen Bialomorsky (reader/help)
Royce Johnson (reader/help/2nd)

More about director/writer Benjamin Hoekstra:
Illinois and Michigan native Benjamin Hoekstra migrated to Los Angeles in 2005 after graduating with majors in art and philosophy from a small midwestern liberal arts college. In California he has worked as a sound mixer, a storyboard artist, in construction and acting.

WHAT
Longhorns

WHO
By Benjamin Hoekstra
Directed by Benjamin Hoekstra
Cast: Zoë Simpson Dean, Shevalier Shahantha, Vincent Isaac, Ben Russell, Benjamin Hoekstra

WHEN
June 4 -24

PERFORMANCES
Sun. 6/4 6:30pm (preview), Sat. 6/10 10:30pm (opening), Mon. 6/12 8:30pm, Sun. 6/18 6pm, Sat. 6/24 1:30pm

WHERE
The Complex Theatres (The OMR Theatre) 6476 California Route 2 (Santa Monica Blvd.), Los Angeles, CA 90038

ABOUT
Cindy and Joe work at Sunshine Donutz, just another of the many doughnut shops in Los Angeles, serving everyone from the ragged homeless to celebrities. The appearance of an unexpected customer seems to push everyone in new directions while a long expected rainstorm seems to be building up outside.

A dramatic dark comedy. Ostensibly a chance intersection of social and economic tiers – the characters are an ensemble from different layers of the social strata – we are swept up by the strange and clashing forces of insecurity and ambition, quiet self-effacement, desperate theatricality, street smarts and one character’s strange perception of the very structure of reality.

TICKETS
$10
http://hff17.com/4631

CONTACT
https://www.facebook.com/longhornsHFF/

PRESS CONTACT
Benjamin Hoekstra, Director of Marketing & Communications
[email protected]