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Contact: Jeffrey Wylie
Producer/Fierce Backbone
Phone: 323-445-1029
Email: [email protected]

FIERCE BACKBONE
DOES THE
HOLLYWOOD FRINGE FESTIVAL

FIERCE: INTERVENTIONS is one of 3 programs of shorts being produced by Fierce Backbone in the Hollywood Fringe Fest this June.
Through comedy, and poignancy, these plays examine the reasons why some people need interventions, and why others feel the need to intervene even when it’s not needed.

END OF THE LINE
Written by Mona Miller, directed by Herb Isaacs
So you’re on a train with people with suicidal tendencies… Do you join them, stop them, or help them?

BANANA INTERVENTION
Written by Jeremy Kehoe, directed by Courtney Ryan
Two men think their friend is a little too obsessed with bananas. Or is it their own fear of having impure thoughts when eating a phallic object that they’re intervening on?

CLOUDS REST
Written by Nancy Beverly, directed by Cailin Harrison
What if you could have prevented someone from slipping off that precipice? Home alone and sleepless, a man wrestles with why he didn’t say anything…

FIERCE: INTERVENTIONS
Open Fist/Fringe Central — 6209 Santa Monica Blvd
Tuesday 6/12 @ 6:30 PM
Thursday 6/14 @ 2:30 PM
Friday 6/15 @ 11:30 AM
Monday 6/18 @ 3:30 PM
Wednesday 6/20 @ 11 PM
Friday 6/22 @ 3PM

MONA MILLER (Playwright) grew up in Manhattan. She loves theater, music and movies, and often uses music and movement in her plays. Several of her short plays have been produced in LA. She is proud to be a member of Fierce Backbone and the Alliance of Los Angeles Playwrights.
Zach moore (Production Designer/Technical Director) Zach has designed in various smaller theaters in Boston, New York, Chicago, Los Angeles, and at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival. Over the last 15 years, Zach has lit everything from experimental opera to a space station for a children’s television program.

JEREMY KEHOE (Playwright) is a playwright whose staged work includes “Car Play: She & Him”, “Killing Russell Crowe”, “Ready, Aim, You’re Fired”, “The Water Board” and “Idea Man”. Jeremy has had multiple stage readings and workshop productions of plays in Los Angeles and New York. He is a member of the Dramatists Guild and Alliance of Los Angeles Playwrights, and a former newspaper editor and reporter, where he earned awards from the NAACP and the New England Press Association.

NANCY BEVERLY (Playwright) feature film script Shelby’s Vacation made the semi-finals of Chicago’s Pride Films & Plays Contest in 2011 and was hand-picked by their exec director for a staged reading at a gay pride event in Vermont. Locally, the L.A. Women’s Theatre Project produced her full-length play Handcrafted Healing in a weekend of women-written-and-directed play readings in 2009, and Playwrights 6 produced her drama Godislav at the Miles Memorial Playhouse in Santa Monica in 2007. Godislav also had the honor of being part of the Playwrights Showcase of the Western Region in Denver. Nancy also worked in television production for 20+ years.

HERB ISAACS (Director) Herb has directed established plays such as Driving Miss Daisy, Beau Jest, Later Life, and Standing By; and has staged many new works including Among Thistles, Fixing MacBeth, Everything Dies in Winter, and O.T., (with a basketball court on stage!) He has served as Artistic Director of West Coast Jewish Theatre and was Founding Board President of the Academy for New Musical Theatre.

Courtney Ryan (Director) is a PhD candidate in Theater and Performance Studies at UCLA. She received her MA in Dramatic Arts from UCSB, where she directed This Is A Play and her two woman show Mnsemosyne. Other favorite directing credits include For Whom The Southern Belle Tolls and All In The Timing. Courtney most recently assistant directed for Jon Lawrence Rivera in The Girl Most Likely To. She would like to thank Fierce Backbone and playwrights Cailin Harrison and Jeremy Kehoe for this opportunity.

CAILIN HARRISON (Playwright/Director) an American and Irish citizen, is a graduate of USC’s MFA screenwriting program who is loving the climate change here in LA after living and working in London, New York and Chicago in film, television and theater with companies including CBS, FOX, USA, New Line, Columbia Pictures and Viacom Networks and ISSA-UK. She is currently a member of Fierce Backbone, Women in Film and Television, Alliance of Los Angeles Playwrights, and several USC women’s film organizations. Her favorite ways to avoid writing, directing and producing are globe trotting, sailing, swing dancing and shooting wildlife (with a camera).

FIERCE BACKBONE
We are a group of playwrights, actors and directors who gather together
to develop new plays while also developing as artists in our respective fields. We shepherd plays through development from the writer’s first draft—staged readings, workshop performances, full production—with a supportive “peer-review” process, maintaining a writer’s vision through our diverse artistic talents.

This process has yielded our 7 productions in the Hollywood Fringe, encompassing 14 plays by 9 writers, utilizing 11 directors and 28 actors, producing 46 performances in 6 venues.

“The art of writing has for backbone some fierce attachment to an idea.” Virginia Woolf

Show times and individual press releases for other Fierce Backbone productions are available at www.hollywoodfringe.com.