HOBOKEN AT THE HOLLYWOOD FRINGE

Hoboken

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
Press Contact
Fritz Brekeller
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The Waverly Writers Collective Presents
HOBOKEN
Los Angeles, CA. May 13, 2019. Hoboken, written by Laura Rohrman, Directed by Fritz Brekeller, is a high voltage thriller inspired by true events. A devastatingly brutal tale of passionate yet toxic love and unthinkable acts that mirrors a deeply wounded society we live in today. HOBOKEN opens June 9th as part of the Hollywood Fringe Festival at the Dorie Theatre at The Complex Hollywood 6476 Santa Monica Blvd, Los Angeles, CA 90038.
Jack and Erica find love after a one-night stand which leaves them hopelessly trying to uncover more of each other. Erica who wants to be a famous actress and Jack, a mysterious Irishman, has the money to make her dreams come true – until a Russian screenplay, two million dollars in unmarked bills and taboo desires threaten to tear them apart. How much is too much?

Performance schedule:
Sunday June 9th, 4:15 pm
Saturday June 15th, 3:45 pm
Sunday June 16th, 8:15 pm
Friday June 21st, 10:15 pm
Thursday June 27th, 8:15 pm

Location: Dorie Theatre at The Complex Hollywood, 6476 Santa Monica Blvd.

Tickets are $20 – www.hollywoodfringe.org/projects/6009

Written by Laura Rohrman, Directed by Fritz Brekeller
Produced by: The Waverly Writers Collective
Featuring: Patrick Cronen, Mary Ellen Everett, Mikaila McMaster and Christopher Valente

Hoboken was developed with RCL Writers Group, The Fold and The New School Alumni Project/DAP Lab with Fritz Brekeller at the helm. It was selected for Rising Sun Theater Company’s Under Rehearsed Reading Series in 2015 and produced as a sold-out workshop at Shelter Studios, NYC with Double Down Productions /Tony White in 2018.

ABOUT THE PRODUCTION TEAM
Laura Rohrman (Playwright) is a New York City playwright, actor and choreographer who grew up in Northern CA. Full-length plays include Reporter Girl about the life of her cartoonist grandmother Dale Messick who created the comic strip Brenda Starr Reporter (The Brick; O’Neill semi-finalist; Weissberger Award Nominee; Princess Grace Finalist; Austin Film Festival 2nd Rounder) My Life As You (Studio 54/Producers Club II, Playwrights First Finalist) and Hoboken (Rising Sun Theater’s Reading Series; Shetler/Double Down). One-acts include The Samuel French Festival Finalists Below 14th and Without. A monologue from My Life As You appears in The Best Women’s Stage Monologues 2017. Laura has a TV series in the works and has been an AFF 2nd rounder twice for her TV projects. Dramatist Guild Member. MFA: New School for Drama/Actors Studio Drama School, NYC. Laura teaches a playwriting program in New York for kids called Playwriting For Kids. https://newplayexchange.org/users/1786/laura-rohrman

Fritz Brekeller (Director) has worked extensively in the soap opera world, winning multiple Daytime Emmy Awards, most recently this past May, as part of the directing team at CBS’s The Young and the Restless. THEATER: He received a 2016 NY Innovative Theater award for Outstanding Direction of Scott C. Sickles’ Composure at the Workshop Theater. Among his many other theater credits, includes two past collaborations with playwright Laura Rohrman: My Life as You and The Elevator: Secret Thoughts. He also conceived the musical revue Foxy Ladies Love/Boogie 70’s Explosion, which played to sold-out crowds at the legendary Duplex in Greenwich Village. TV: ABC’s All My Children. FILM: What Would Bear Do? and the short, Through the Morning. WEB: season 4 of the indie soap, Empire and the pilot for the off-off Broadway spoof, Off-Off Kilter.