GIMPLECAPPED: A JOURNEY OF "INSPIRATION"

Gimplecapped: A Journey of "Inspiration"

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE:

Born with 10 toes on your face? Gimplecapped.
Lost a leg to a rabid sloth? Gimplecapped.
Gimpy, crippled, or handicapped by life? Gimplecapped!
Join a crew of abby-normals for vignettes that explore what it is to be different. You’ll laugh, or cry. You might even be inspired. (Or…not.)

GIMPLECAPPED: A JOURNEY OF “INSPIRATION”
Presented by Sore Thumb Group
Written and Directed by Regan Linton and Laura Alsum
At the Hollywood Fringe, June 2014
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LOCATION: Theatre Asylum – 6320 Santa Monica Blvd. (1 block W. of Vine)

PRICE: Pay what you can/want ($10 suggested)

DATES/TIMES:
Saturday, June 7 @ 3:30pm
Saturday, June 14 @ 5:30pm
Saturday, June 21 @ 4:00pm
Wednesday, June 25 @ 7:00pm
Friday, June 27 @ 8:30pm

TYPE: Variety (scenes, songs, and other memorable musings) – RUNNING TIME 1 HOUR
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GIMPLECAPPED CREATORS – SORE THUMB GROUP:

REGAN LINTON – Actor/Writer/Director, Founding Thumb
From Denver, CO, an MFA Acting grad of UC San Diego who currently lives in Los Angeles and ambulates on wheels due to a spinal cord injury. www.reganlinton.com, www.mfaonwheels.blogspot.com

LAURA ALSUM – Writer/Director, Founding Thumb
From Denver, CO, a writer and 2014 graduate of UCLA’s MFA Screenwriting Program. 2013 Winner of the $50,000 Tribeca Film Festival Alfred P. Sloan Student Screenwriting Prize for her screenplay, SURVIVAL OF THE FITTEST.

MALLORY NELSON – Designer/Marketing, Company Thumb
From Denver, CO, MFA Costume Designer graduate of Carnegie Mellon. Currently costume designing STUPID F*CKING BIRD at Boston Court Theatre in Pasadena. www.mallorykaynelson.com

GIMPLECAPPED is the inaugural show of the SORE THUMB GROUP, a collective of writers, actors, and other artists – of all different physical embodiments – interested in exploring and presenting stories about what it means to be other, outcast, disabled, forgotten, misrepresented, viewed narrowly, abnormal, freakish, retarded, crippled, unwhole, gimpy, broken, injured, voiceless, handicapped, pitied, incapable, crazy, stupid, scary, weird, gross, malformed, deformed, or JUST PLAIN HUMAN.