FAMILY VALUES AND THE HORROR OF THE UNKNOWN

For Immediate Release, Los Angeles, CA—May 30th, 2015- Simple Dog

Productions is happy to bring their production of Smudge to the

Hollywood Fringe Festival. Written by Rachel Axler (Emmy Award

winning staff writer of The Daily Show and currently writing for

NBC’s Parks and Recreation) and directed by Los Angeles based

director/producer Rebecca Eisenberg ( The Pitchfork Disney,

The Homosexuals, Wolves) the play revolves around a young married

couple awaiting the birth of their first child, having never imagined

the challenges would become even greater than either of them had ever

anticipated. Smudge is “. . . pitch black funny” (Variety) and “ a

play that sticks with you, both for its laughs and its message”

(CURTAINUP), while at the same time it, “. . . taps into a primal

fear — giving birth to a monster and then calmly considers it from

all angles” (The New York Times). Smudge deals with questions of

family, of ‘being’, and unconditional love, where human emotions are

stretched outside their comfort zone providing the basis for an all

too modern “horror story”. SDP’s production features Chicago natives

Whitney Wellner ( CSI, Save the Last Dance, 7 Days in November), and

Jesse G. Louis (Best of Craigslist Live, Rogue Artists Ensemble’s

Song of Bilitis, west coast premiere of Dirty) as well as newly

transplanted NYC actor Brian Bickerstaff (Habit, Church, Songs of the

Dragons Flying to Heaven, Bad Boy Nietzsche) who met while

participating in Chicago theater’s Steppenwolf West class earlier

this year. The production will run for a limited engagement of 12

performances at The Hudson Theater, 6539 Santa Monica Blvd, Los

Angeles, 90038 – the only theatre participating in The Fringe that

has a parking lot! Individual tickets are $20 and can be purchased

online at smudge4fringe.com. We have matinee and evening shows

running from June 12 through June 28. There is special PRESS PREVIEW

PERFORMANCE Friday the 6th at 8 p.m. Comped tickets will be given to

all press. Please visit hollywoodfringe.com and send us a message on

our show page.