ACTING INSTRUCTOR ANASTASIA COON FEATURED ON NY FILM ACADEMY SITE FOR PREMIERE OF GRACIE AND ROSE

Gracie and Rose

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Acting Instructor
Anastasia Coon
featured on NY Film Academy Site
for premiere of
GRACIE AND ROSE

June 13-29 @ Art of Acting LA

Los Angeles, Calif. (May 29, 2013) -- In her interview with Joe Hui published today, NYFA Acting Instructor Anastasia Coon reveals that Gracie and Rose is “based on true stories of women through our history that we never hear about.”

Read the full interview here: http://www.nyfa.edu/film-school-blog/anastasia-coon/

MORE INFO:
Gracie and Rose are two women who fall in love in Wyoming in the late 1950’s. Gracie has been passing as a man, George, for some time, in order to do men’s work and live the way she feels most authentic. Anastasia Coon presents the full-length Los Angeles premiere of her solo show Gracie and Rose. Los Angeles Writer’s Center Director Che’Rae Adams directs the limited run of the full work in development, June 13-29 at Art of Acting LA during the 2013 Hollywood Fringe Festival.

This piece unpacks pre-Stonewall queer history in the American West, the deep human longing to live authentically despite being rendered invisible, gender performance in a butch/femme tradition, the body as landscape for desire, and the violence and redemption of breaking and making family. This story is told in a physical theatre aesthetic harnessing the rich legacy of devising work through the movement-based actor training that Coon teaches: Commedia Dell’Arte, Mask making and performance, Melodrama, Viewpoints, and the work of Le Coq, Grotwoski and Laban.
Gracie and Rose fall in love without a clue of what that means. They’re flying on instinct in their desire to be together with no reflection back from the people around them. They build a life together – hidden in love, while living in plain sight. As they contend with the intense demands of the land, the animals, and running a ranch, Rose wants to have a baby… with George.
Gracie and Rose runs Sunday June 16 @7pm, Friday June 21 @3pm & 10pm, Tuesday June 25 @8pm, Friday June 28 @3pm & Saturday June 29 @3pm. General admission is $12, Hollywood Fringe Festival participants PWYC (subject to availability).
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“GRACIE AND ROSE”
WHAT:
GRACIE AND ROSE — World premiere of Actor, Voice & Movement Specialist Anastasia Coon’s solo show GRACIE AND ROSE at the 2013 Hollywood Fringe Festival. Gracie/George and Rose fall in love without a clue of what that means. They’re flying on instinct in their desire to be together with no reflection back from the people around them. They build a life together – hidden in love, while living in plain sight. As they contend with the intense demands of the land, the animals, and running a ranch, Rose wants to have a baby… with George.

WHO:
Written & Performed by Anastasia Coon
Direction & Dramaturgy by Che’Rae Adams
Social Media Outreach Consultant (made possible by a Center for Cultural Innovation ARC Investing in Artists Grant) by Cindy Marie Jenkins

WHEN:
Sunday June 16 @7pm
Friday June 21 @3pm & 10pm
Tuesday June 25 @8pm
Friday June 28 @3pm
Saturday June 29 @3pm

WHERE:
Art of Acting Studio
1017 North Orange Drive
Los Angeles, CA 90038
HOW: http://hff13.org/1372
TICKETS:
$10 or PWYC for Hollywood Fringe Festival Participants June 16-21
PARKING:
FREE on-site

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