"BLUNT TALK" (STARZ) REUNION IN A VOID AT HOLLYWOOD FRINGE FESTIVAL
A Void
Mary Holland (Blunt Talk, Veep, UCB) Rachel Sondag (Blunt Talk, Steppenwolf Theatre) and Timm Sharp (Blunt Talk, Enlightened) star in the play A VOID, a world premiere by writer & director Kirsten Kearse (Blunt Talk)
A VOID opens June 10, 8:30PM. The closing performance will be June 18.
ABOUT A VOID
Kearse broke into TV on Starz’s “Blunt Talk” (Jonathan Ames, Patrick Stewart) where she met series regulars Sharp and Holland. Sondag was a recurring guest playing Jason Schwarzman’s crunchy wife. After the third season was not picked up, the cast was thrilled to have the opportunity to work together again, this time in the very different medium of theater. There’s a moment in A VOID where the characters literally climb through the television and emerge on the stage.
A VOID is a dramatic dark comedy about two sisters, Judith and Rita, weighing the pros and cons of cryogenically freezing themselves until their troubles become a thing of the past. As the debate plays out we learn that Judith’s current misery was caused by Rita’s seemingly flippant life choices. Judith realizes this is her last chance and decides to save her life in a passively brutal way. Drawing on the verbal warfare of Harold Pinter and the farcical chaos of Christopher Durang, A VOID grounds an absurdist concept in the fraught dynamics of sisterhood and asks how far will we go to avoid our problems.
Part of the Hollywood Fringe Festival – Tickets $10
For tickets visit: http://www.hollywoodfringe.org/projects/4632
VENUE: The Actors Company, 916 N. Formosa Ave., Let Live Theater, Los Angeles, CA 90046
CONTACT: Kirsten Kearse, c: 917-690-8195, [email protected]
ABOUT MARY HOLLAND
Mary Holland is an actor and improviser from Virginia. Television credits include BLUNT TALK (Starz), VEEP (HBO), DICE (Showtime), SILICON VALLEY (HBO), SHRINK (Seeso), THE GOOD PLACE (NBC), THE MINDY PROJECT (Hulu), NEW GIRL (Fox), ANIMALS (HBO), IT’S ALWAYS SUNNY IN PHILADELPHIA (FX). Film credits include MIKE AND DAVE NEED WEDDING DATES and UNICORN STORE. She performs regularly at the UCBLA and is a member of WILD HORSES.
ABOUT TIMM SHARP
Timm Sharp has appeared in ‘SIX FEET UNDER’ (HBO), ‘UNDECLARED’ (FOX), ‘TIL DEATH’ (FOX), ‘DRUNK HISTORY’ (Comedy Central), ‘ENLIGHTENED’ (HBO), and ‘BLUNT TALK’ (STARZ). His film work includes RAINBOW TIME, HANDSOME, BENEATH THE HARVEST SKY, ALEX OF VENICE, FRIENDS WITH MONEY, FUN WITH DICK AND JANE, and KICKING & SCREAMING.
ABOUT RACHEL SONDAG
Rachel Sondag’s theater credits include Steppenwolf Theater’s GARY, The Pasadena Playhouse’s THE LITTLE FOXES as well as the American premieres of Nick Dear’s POWER, Polly Teale’s BRONTE, and Ellen Fairey’s GIRL 20. Her film and television credits include ARC OF A BIRD, ACCORDING TO JIM, THE DEFENDERS, GREY’S ANATOMY, TOUCH, MARON, BLUNT TALK, and FILTHY PREPPY TEEN$. Her short BE GOOD FOR RACHEL premiered at the 54th Annual New York Film Festival and is now available on JASH.
ABOUT FRANCES CHEWNING
LA theater: Dane Whitlock’s I TOTALLY KNOW WHAT YOU DID LAST DONNA SUMMER, PRAIRIE-OKE!, and ARE YOU THERE GOD, IT’S ME KAREN CARPENTER (Cavern Club Theater). NYC: A TOUGH LINE, A TASTE OF LIME, THIS IS NOT A TORTURE OR AN ENGINE, BLUES FOR MISTER CHARLIE. Regional: ANIMALS & PLANTS and 3 FARCES AND A FUNERAL (American Repertory Theater). Film: BE GOOD FOR RACHEL, NEO-NOIR (Sundance). Web: THE MIMI & FLO SHOW (over 2.5 million hits). Comedy: MURDER IN BEAVER BROOK (UCB), the bi-monthly HOMETOWN SHOW. MFA from ART/MXAT Institute at Harvard.
ABOUT ARNE GJELTEN
Arne Gjelten graduated from the Gallatin School at NYU and trained at The Sweat Spot, The Groundlings, and with Marjorie Ballentine. Best known for freaking out in “The Walker” music video by Fitz and The Tantrums, he’s danced for Pharrell, Margaret Cho, Peaches, and Kenzo.
ABOUT KIRSTEN KEARSE
Kirsten Kearse was most recently published in Joyland Magazine. She is a television writer (Blunt Talk) and filmmaker most known for her trilogy “Horsefingers.” She is a MacDowell Colony Fellow.
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