Skin Jobs

jim vejvoda · United States of America

world premiere

Friends Don’t Let Friends Whitewash in SKIN JOBS

April 28, 2018

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 — SKIN JOBS, 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. SKIN JOBS will run five shows, with closing night set for June 20.

In SKIN JOBS, 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.

SKIN JOBS is the third world premiere staged at the Hollywood Fringe Festival by director Lee Costello following her productions of LOS ANGELYNE and THE PORTABLE DOROTHY PARKER. SKIN JOBS also marks the H

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