ZAYD DOHRN'S "REBORNING" COMES TO MCCADDEN PLACE THEATRE FOR HOLLYWOOD FRINGE 2014 CURIOUS BEAST THEATRE CO.'S FASCINATING DARK COMEDY RUNS THROUGH JUNE 28, 2013

REBORNING by Zayd Dohrn

Curious Beast Theatre Co. bursts on to the Los Angeles theatre scene with the Hollywood Fringe Festival premiere of Zayd Dohrn’s “Reborning” this June. In this fascinating dark comedy, the practice of using latex as an art form is portrayed in all of its bizarre glory. “Reborning” opens at McCadden Place Theater on Saturday, June 14 at 9:15 p.m. Performances continue Saturday, June 21 and Saturday, June 28 at 9:15 p.m. (Preview Sunday, June 8 at 4:15 p.m.)
Directed by CBTco’s Jamie Boalbey and Assistant Directed by Lyle Friederichs, the cast features Mary Carrig, the owner of Inside Shakespeare, LLC and Artistic Director of Conejo Valley Shakespeare Society’s Youth Shakespeare Company playing the role of Emily, Spark O’Connell, who attended the Moscow Art Theatre School in Russia playing the role of Daizy and Jamie Boalbey, who received her bachelor’s degree in theatre from Ball State University playing the role of Kelly. The scenic design is by Lyle Friederichs.
“Reborning” is a dark comedy about life-like baby dolls, latex and phalluses. Kelly, an orphan doll maker and Daizy, a hippy art school dropout, now use their skills to fill the void of those in need. A demanding client may be the key to Kelly’s past. As she tries to unravel the mystery she discovers the path to her own reborning. “Reborning” was originally produced in New York at the Summer Play Festival.
CBTco is teaming up with Wendy’s Babies Nursery who will provide the production with actual reborn babies from one of the most talented women in the reborning industry. Based out of Lincoln Linconshire, England, owner Wendy Graham is the first professional reborn artist to be accepted into the Fine Arts Trade Guild and has created the most realistic “reborns” for people all over the world.
Zayd Dohrn is an award winning playwright and screenwriter. His awards include the Lincoln Center’s Lecomte du Nouy Prize, the Theatre Masters Visionary Playwrights
Award, the Sky Cooper Prize, and the Jean Kennedy Smith Award, as well as residencies
and/or commissions from Ars Nova, Dallas Theatre Center, Chautauqua, and the Royal
Court Theatre of London. He earned his MFA from NYU and was a two-year Lila Acheson
Wallace Fellow at Juilliard. His work has been produced and developed at Manhattan Theatre Club, MCC, Naked Angels, Marin Theatre, The Public (SPF), South Coast Rep, Alliance Theatre, New York Theatre Workshop, Berkshire Theatre Festival, Alchemy Theatre, Southern Rep, and Kitchen Dog Theater, among others. He has also written screenplays for The American Film Company, Bedlam Productions and Vox3 films. He also has worked with HBO on developing a drama series.

Tickets for “Reborning” are available online at www.HFF14.org/1839. McCadden Place Theatre is located at 1157 N McCadden Pl, Los Angeles, CA 90038.

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