The Meatball Chronicles

Pacifica Radio’s Arts in Review welcomes three female performers, discussing their solo shows, currently being showcased at the Hollywood Fringe Festival 2018. Debrianna Mansini (The Meatball Chronicles), Monique DeBose’ show (Mulatto Math) and Stacy Dymalski (The Other Side Of The Razor Ribbon) join arts Journalist Julio Martinez today, June 8, on KPFK 90.7FM (2-2:30PM).

Actress Debrianna Mansini’s The Meatball Chronicles follows one woman through humorous and sometimes heart wrenching meals that align with stories of her childhood, her relationships with men, and in particular, her complicated relationship to her mother. Mansini crafts this piece in a way that transcends her own story into universal themes. As she kneads the dough and thickens the sauce through each Italian recipe, the stories associated with those recipes reveal the complex ways that families cope, laugh, grieve, and show their love through food. The Meatball Chronicles premieres at Broadwater Second Stage, 6320 S

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From CAPITAL AND MAIN:
Actress Debrianna Mansini (Better Call Saul and Breaking Bad) is a passionate advocate for ending hunger in America, specifically through ending the practice of “lunch shaming” in schools. She will speak about it during The Meatball Chronicles, her solo show that opens June 2 at the Broadwater as part of the Hollywood Fringe Festival. She and chef Hunter Long Fox, of the Hollywood restaurant Hunter & Charlie’s, will host a celebrity luncheon to raise money to assist poor families who cannot afford the price of a school lunch. Mansini spoke to Capital & Main by phone.

Capital & Main: What exactly is lunch shaming?

Debrianna Mansini: Lunch shaming happens when a child’s family owes money to the school lunch program, and a cafeteria worker has to refuse to serve the child a hot lunch. (I don’t want to disparage cafeteria workers. A lot of them don’t want to do it — they’re required to.)

I read about it in the New York Times and it just horrified me. Shamin

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Debrianna Mansini brings her Italian brand of actorvism to LA ‘s Hollywood Fringe Festival. “Actorvist” Debrianna Mansini (Better Call Saul and Breaking Bad) will be in Los Angeles in June to perform the LA Premiere of The Meatball Chronicles as part of the Hollywood Fringe Festival. But the show alone is not enough for Mansini- she will also use the opportunity to advocate for those who need an extra voice. She will be working to raise awareness for New Mexico congresswoman Michelle Lujan Grisham’s Bipartisan Anti-Lunch Shaming bill HR 2401and Senator Tom Udall’s senate Anti-Lunch Shaming Act, S.1064.

Mansini is inspiring other performers to join in the effort to end lunch shaming:

Maile Flanagan: https://youtu.be/0Vwn6-XVQ2Y

Ronnie Marmo: https://youtu.be/ZHP6AYqlUI4

Frank Collison and Laura Gardner: https://youtu.be/bSqjdorpIJo

ABOUT THE ANTI-LUNCH-SHAMING EVENT

Mansini is also partnering with Chef Hunter of Hunter and Charlie’s (1050 Vine, Hollywood 90038) througho

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Debrianna Mansini of Better Call Saul and Breaking Bad brings her one- woman show The Meatball Chronicles to the Broadwater Second Stage

Los Angeles, CA (April 3, 2018) – Santa Fe “Actorvist” Debrianna Mansini of Better Call Saul and Breaking Bad will be in Los Angeles this June to do the LA Premiere of The Meatball Chronicles at the Broadwater Second Stage. Mansini will partner with Hollywood Chef Hunter Fox of Hunter & Charlies on Vine during run to create theme menu selections including Debrianna’s spinach bread, sauce from a recipe passed across generations and of course, meatballs.
Debrianna Mansini has been seen in both film and television in; Hell or High Water, Crazy Heart, Breaking Bad, and Better Call Saul, to name a few. She is also an actor, creator, and co-writer of the web series Cyphers and the upcoming Reaction 21. She is a New York trained actor with a passion for

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Santa Fe “Actorvist” Debrianna Mansini of Better Call Saul and Breaking Bad will be in Los Angeles this June to do the LA Premiere of The Meatball Chronicles and to advocate for New Mexico congresswoman Michelle Lujan Grisham’s Bipartisan Anti-Lunch Shaming bill HR 2401 and Senator Tom Udall’s senate Anti-Lunch Shaming Act, S.1064. Grisham is currently running for Governor of New Mexico, the first state to ban “Lunch Shaming” last year in 2017. California also banned the practice of “Lunch Shaming” as of January 1st, 2018 after public pressure and hard work by Children’s Defense Fund’s Marian Wright Edelman and CA Senator Robert Hertzberg’s SB 250.
Mansini will partner with Hollywood’s Chef Hunter of Hunter and Charlie’s Restaurant throughout The Meatball Chronicles LA run to create theme menu selections including Debrianna’s spinach bread, sauce from a recipe passed across generations and of course meatballs. The team will host a kitchen table talk luncheon on June 9th with local stak

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Santa Fe “Actorvist” Debrianna Mansini of Better Call Saul and Breaking Bad will be in Los Angeles this June to do the LA Premiere of The Meatball Chronicles and to advocate for New Mexico congresswoman Michelle Lujan Grisham’s Bipartisan Anti-Lunch Shaming bill HR 2401 and Senator Tom Udall’s senate Anti-Lunch Shaming Act, S.1064. Grisham is currently running for Governor of New Mexico, the first state to ban “Lunch Shaming” last year in 2017. California also banned the practice of “Lunch Shaming” as of January 1st, 2018 after public pressure and hard work by Children’s Defense Fund’s Marian Wright Edelman and CA Senator Robert Hertzberg’s SB 250.

Mansini will partner with a local Hollywood Chef throughout The Meatball Chronicles LA run to create theme menu selections including Debrianna’s spinach bread, sauce from a recipe passed across generations and of course meatballs. The team will host a “Kitchen Table Talk” luncheon on June 9th with local stakeholders and Hollywood Fringe pa

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