New play about diversity, superhero movies, and two women trying to maintain careers in the film industry premieres May 31 at the Hollywood Fringe Festival.
Los Angeles — SKINJOBS, a new play about whitewashing in superhero blockbusters from the director of the acclaimed Obama-meets-Trump play TRANSITION, will make its world premiere May 31, 2018 at The Broadwater in the Hollywood Fringe Festival. SKINJOBS will run five shows, with closing night set for June 20.
In SKINJOBS, Kerri (Virginia Tran), an Asian-American visual effects artist in the film industry, has her values tested and career endangered when her best friend Viv (Claire Fazzolari), a white reporter covering Hollywood, threatens to expose the top-secret (and racially problematic) project her firm is working on.
SKINJOBS is the third world premiere staged at the Hollywood Fringe Festival by director Lee Costello following her productions of LOSANGELYNE and THEPORTABLEDOROTHYPARKER. SKINJOBS also marks the H