RELEASE - PLEDGE BY AWARD WINNING WRITER

PLEDGE

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ROBINSON & BOBADILLA REUNITE WITH ZIMMERMAN IN SHOULBERG’S NEW PLAY “PLEDGE” FOR HOLLYWOOD FRINGE FESTIVAL 2017

Los Angeles, CA May 5, 2017 – Fringe Management (Michael Blaha) and Combined Artform (Matthew Quinn) proudly present a new play, PLEDGE, by Paul Shoulberg (“Synthesis”, “Walter”), directed by Stan Zimmerman (“Meet and Greet”, “Yes, Virginia”). A play about what happens when a member of a fraternity kills himself. The ripple effect sends the remaining members into a tailspin that leaves them questioning loyalties and the social structure to which they’ve blindly subscribed. PLEDGE is part of the Hollywood Fringe Festival at The McCadden Place Theatre – 1157 N. McCadden Place, LA, CA 90038.

Brendan Robinson (“Pretty Little Liars”) and Daniela Bobadilla (The Middle”) will once again join forces with director Stan Zimmerman (“The Golden Girls”, “Roseanne”, “Gilmore Girls”). Brendan has previousLY appeared in two of Zimmerman’s past theatre productions, the highly acclaimed comedy, “Meet & Greet”, which ran at Asylum Theatre for five months and “Suicide Notes: In Their Own Words” (both produced by Mr. Quinn). Daniela Bobadilla can be seen as Heidi, the overly ambitious assistant in Zimmerman’s webseries “Secs & EXECS”, currently streaming on tellofilms.com.

The show will have a limited run of five performances, opening on Saturday June 3 @ 8:30pm and running on Saturday June 10@ 5pm, Sunday June 11@5pm, Saturday June 17@3:30pm and Sunday June 25@4pm. Running time is 60 minutes. Tickets are $15. http://hff17.com/4656

Cast members: Brendan Robinson, Daniela Bobadilla, Alex Doyan, Kevin Clough, Torran Kitts and Artie O’Day.

Running time is 60 minutes.

Tickets are $15, with comps available for members of the press upon request.

For tickets go to: http://hff17.com/4656
FACT SHEET

“PLEDGE”
WRITTEN BY: Paul Shoulberg
DIRECTED BY: Stan Zimmerman
PRODUCED BY: Michael Blaha and Matthew Quinn
PERFORMED BY: Brendan Robinson, Daniela Bobadilla, Alex Dyon, Kevin Clough, Torran Kitts, Artie O’Day.

DATES: Opens – Saturday June 3, 2017 and closes Sunday, June 25, 2017
PERFORMANCES: 60 minutes (no intermission)
Saturday, June 3 – 8:30 PM (OPENING)
Saturday June 10 – 5 PM
Sunday June 11 – 9 PM
Saturday June 17 3:30 PM
Sunday, June 25 – 4 PM (CLOSING)
LOCATION: McCadden Place Theatre – 1157 N. McCadden Place, Hollywood, CA 90038
Tickets are $15 at http://hff17.com/4656
Paul Shoulberg wrote and directed the film, “The Good Catholic”, starring Danny Glover and John C. McGinley, which won Best Screenplay at the MIFF Awards 2017 and Panavision Spirit Award at the 2017 Santa Barbara International Film Festival. Paul also wrote the movie “Walter”, featuring Academy Award nominated actors William H. Macy and Virginia Madsen, as well as Justin Kirk, Neve Campbell, and Jim Gaffigan. In 2006, his play “Reel” won the Kennedy Center Mark Twain Prize for best student comedy. Paul is a 2007 graduate of the MFA playwriting program at Indiana University and earned his BA in Theatre/Film from the University of Kansas.

Stan Zimmerman, along with James Berg, has written for such classic television series as “The Golden Girls”, “Roseanne” and “Gilmore Girls”. They received two WGA nominations for Best Episodic Comedy Writing for the first two series. Zimmerman & Berg also wrote on both “Brady Bunch” movies. Zimmerman, with Christian McLaughlin, wrote the award winning production of “Meet & Greet” (Elephant Theatre), “It’s On!”, the tv theme song musical which played at NYMF/Signature Theatre, “Yes, Virginia” (Studio C) and “Knife to the Heart”, their circumcision comedy that will open in Chicago Spring 2018.

In theatre, Zimmerman has directed “Gemini” (Celebration Theatre), “A Tuna Christmas” (Theatre Asylum) with Sterling, “Blink & You Might Miss Me” (Theatre Asylum), “Entertaining Mr. Sloane” (Actors Company) and this year received rave reviews for the premiere production of Paul Shoulberg’s “Synthesis” and Zimmerman/McLaughlin’s new play “Yes, Virginia”. He also directed “Meet & Greet” and “Suicide Notes: In Their Own Words” (Theatre Asylum). Stan directed and co-wrote the new office comedy series “Secs & Execs”, which is currently streaming on tellofilms.com.

Michael Blaha is an entertainment attorney, law professor, arbitrator and stage and film producer. His Los Angeles stage credits “Job: The Hip-Hopera” (Stella Adler Theater; Los Angeles Drama Critics and LA Weekly Best Musical nominations), “Hoboken to Hollywood” (Edgemar Theater, LA Weekly Best Musical of the Year) and several productions at the Hollywood Fringe since 2012, including “Richard Parker” (Best International Production), “Nigerian Spam Scam Scam” (Encore Award) and “Pick of the Fringe” (Best Cabaret and Variety Nominee). Other U.S. stage credits include “Bukowsical” in Los Angeles and at the New York Fringe, where it won the Best Musical Award, and “runt” (Los Angeles, Chicago, Minneapolis, New York). Internationally: over 40 shows at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe, including “runt,” (Fringe First; Sony Radio Academy Award winner for Best Drama for BBC World Service production), “Sabotage: In Fine Form” (Perrier Best Newcomer Nominee), and “This Is So Not About The Simpsons” (starring Harry Shearer); also, The Pajama Men (The Times Double Act of the Year) in two sold out runs at the Soho Theater in London and “Rite of Passage” at the Hong Kong Fringe and the Battersea Arts Centre in London. Mike’s film producing credits include “Chi Girl,” (Slamdance Grand Jury Prize Winner), “Tropicalia” (Telluride Film Festival selection) and the short film “Legend of Beaver Dam” (multiple international Best Short Awards and Honorable Mention, Sundance Film Festival). Mike is the President of the Board of Directors of New Musicals, Inc., and on the Board of Directors of Filmmakers’ Alliance. He has been an Adjunct Associate Professor of Law at Southwestern Law School since 1986.

Theatre Asylum/Combined Artform – Matthew Quinn has been involved in theater production and venue management for over 20 years in San Francisco and LA. He created Combined Artform in 1998 with Bertha Rodriguez and have produced such shows as “Santaland Diaries” (now in its 15th year at SF’s Eureka Theatre), “Blink & You Might Miss Me”, “Jane Austen Unscripted” (w/Impro Theatre), “A Tuna Christmas”, “Pulp Shakespeare”, “How to Survive a Zombie Apocalypse” – US version and Tilted Frame. In 2010, Matthew started the Asylum’s Best of the Fringe (ENCORE Awards) and in 2016 BEYOND ENCORES. From the ENCORES, he has co-produced extensions of “Pulp Shakespeare”, “Pokemusical”, “Sunny Afternoon”, “WOMEN” (w/Beth Dies) and both “Meet & Greet and “Suicide Notes” with Stan Zimmerman.

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