UTM'S URBAN UNREST PLAY FESTIVAL

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
Press Contact: Urban Theatre Movement
Paul Tully, Artistic Director – [email protected]
Alex Alpharaoh, Producer – [email protected]
Gisla Stringer, Company Manager – [email protected]

Urban Theatre Movement Presents:
Urban Unrest Play Festival.
A Hollywood Fringe 2017 Production

BLACK BOX @ SACRED FOOLS THEATRE CO.
LOS ANGELES, CA. (April 1, 2017) – Urban Theatre Movement is one of Los Angeles most ethnically diverse theatre companies. Multi-disciplined artists from all parts of the world call Urban Theatre Movement their artistic home. UTM is a multi cultural collective of artists dedicated to producing original and published work, while creating accessible art, and life changing experiences through innovative theatre that serves and mirrors our rich and diverse inner-city communities. We aim to nurture, support, and encourage under-served young artists in order to give them voice and hone their potential, starting at their most vulnerable stages in life. We will channel their cultural and regional roots to create a more productive and enlightened society. Urban Unrest begins its run on Sunday, June 4th – June 24th at Black Box @ Sacred Fools Theatre Company.

ABOUT URBAN THEATRE MOVEMENT
Since it’s inception in 2010 when co-founders Paul Tully and Brenda Banda decided to start a theatre company that better reflected who they and their friends were as artists, and seeing a lack of diversity in the theatre community, Urban Theatre Movement Has strived to produce theatre that is reflective of who they are as individuals, and as an artist collective. Now in their 7th season, UTM has produced 4 Published plays, including the Los Angeles Revival of Miguel Piñero’s Short Eyes, 5 Original Productions, including 2016’s Blood Match by Oliver Mayer, an adaptation of Federico Garcia Lorca’s Blood Wedding, its annual Urban Legends One Act festival, which birthed a full length version of Paul Tully’s One Act play Replica which was world premiered in 2015, The Ivy League Improv Troupe, and Alex Alpharaoh’s SP!T: Spoken Word Theatre, which was birthed at UTM.

For more information on Urban Theatre Movement, and other upcoming shows, including Urban Legends 2017, Urban Unrest at Hollywood Fringe, and Yerma In the Desert, follow us on social media: “Like” on Facebook @ https://www.facebook.com/UrbanTheatreMovement/, follow us on Instagram at @urbantheatremov, or tweet about us at @urbantheatremov

ABOUT THE HOLLYWOOD FRINGE FESTIVAL – The Hollywood Fringe Festival is an annual, open-access, community-derived event celebrating freedom of expression and collaboration in the performing arts community. Each June during the Hollywood Fringe, the arts infiltrate the Hollywood neighborhood: fully equipped theaters, parks, clubs, churches, restaurants and other unexpected places host hundreds of productions by local, national, and international arts companies and independent performers.

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WHO: UTM Presents: Urban Unrest Play Festival
A series of original short plays from past Urban Legends Play Festival selections.

LBS (LAUGHING BUT SERIOUS)
Written by Gisla Stringer
Directed by Lynn Adrianna
Starring: Gisla Stringer & Paul Tully

THE MOUNTAIN
Written by Juan Amador
Directed by Meghan Lewis
Starring: Charlie Sanchez & Spencer Weitzel

OBSCURIDAD
Written and Directed by Brenda Banda
Starring: Aileen Alfaro, Alex Alpharaoh, & Diana Romo

REPLICA
Written and Directed by Paul Tully
Starring: Gisla Stringer, Paul Tully, & Spencer Weitzel

WHAT: Urban Theatre Movement Presents: Urban Unrest Play Festival at the 2017 Hollywood Fringe Festival

WHEN:
Preview: Sunday, June 4th @ 2:00pm
Thursday, June 8th @ 8:00pm
Saturday, June 10th @ 1:00pm
Friday, June 16th @ 8:30pm
Saturday, June 17th @ 4:00pm
Sunday, June 18th @ 8:00pm
Wednesday, June 21st, @ 11:00pm
Thursday, June 22nd, @ 7:00pm
Saturday, June 24th, @ 11:30pm
The show runs 75 minutes with no intermission.

WHERE: BlackBox @ Sacred Fools Theatre Co., 6322 Santa Monica Blvd, Los Angeles, CA. 90038

TICKETS: $12-$15
Online: http://www.hollywoodfringe.org/projects/4602?tab=tickets
At The Door: Cash or Credit
Reservations: 818.917.2059

Press Contact: Urban Theatre Movement
Paul Tully, Artistic Director/ Producer – [email protected], 323.369.0571
Alex Alpharaoh, Producer – [email protected], 714.458.0697