AWARD WINNING SCREENWRITER AND CRITICALLY ACCLAIMED ACTRESS BRINGS HER LOOSE UNDERWEAR TO THE HOLLYWOOD FRINGE FESTIVAL
Loose Underwear
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
May 3, 2019
Press Contact: Dagmar Stansova
[email protected]
(310) 617-9383
Los Angeles, CA May 3, 2019 From exorcisms to orgasms, the daughter of a Holocaust
survivor is compelled to “cha-cha” away the wounds of her ancestors. Through the celebratory
delight of her loose underwear she finds freedom. And yes… it’s funny. This show will have you
laughing, crying and leave you wanting to share your own story. “Loose Underwear” opens
June 8th as part of the Hollywood Fringe Festival at The New American Theatre -1312 N. Wilton
Place, Los Angeles 90028
“Loose Underwear” is Dagmar Stansova’ s autobiographical solo play about how a
woman survives being the daughter of a New Age Holocaust survivor. The sins of the
fathers shall be visited upon the sons. But the shocks of the mothers shall be visited
upon the daughters.
A Hollywood Fringe production at
The New American Theatre – 1312 N. Wilton Place LA 90028.
Performances:
Saturday June 8, 2019 – 3:30 pm (preview)
Thursday June 13, 2019 – 9:00 pm
Sunday June 16, 2019 – 6:30 pm
Sunday June 23, 2019 – 7:30 pm
Saturday June 29, 2019 – 5:00 pm
Running time: 60 minutes
Admission age: 16+
Tickets : $15 – https://www.hollywoodfringe.org/projects/5795?tab=tickets
About the Production Team
Dagmar Stansova (Writer/Performer/Producer) Award winning writer and critically acclaimed
actor, has performed in leading roles off-Broadway, at LaMama and The Public Theatre and in
Los Angeles at the Odyssey and West Coast Ensemble. Her television credits include “One Life
to Live” and HBO’s “The Image” with Albert Finney.
She starred in the independent films “Dirty Money” and “Tick Tick Tick” which premiered at
Sundance. Other film credits include Coppola’s “Dracula” and “Waist Deep”. She’s written an
award winning screenplay about the Velvet Revolution of 1989 which earned her a Writers Guild
of America membership.
With her mother, father and sister she escaped from communist Czechoslovakia, lived in Israel,
Greece, Italy and Germany, learned to dance in Harlem and Haiti, got her BA in Latin American,
Portuguese and Brazilian Studies from Brown University, completed her pre-med requirement at
Purchase, State University of N.Y. and to the shock of family and friends pursued a career in the
Theatre Arts. She studied acting with the formidable Kim Stanley. For twenty years she
avoided writing about this complex issue of how traumas are passed from one generation to the
next until she met her director and dramaturg Debra De Liso who “put her hands under her art”
and “Loose Underwear” was born.
Debra De Liso (Director) “Loose Underwear” is directed by, an award winning director,
dramaturg, critically acclaimed actor, writer, recipient of the Rainbow Award from the L.A.
Women’s Theatre Festival for her decades of work in forgotten communities including artists
with disabilities, institutionalized teens and incarcerated women. She has guided the
presentation of over 500 original solo plays! She teaches at AADA and USC.
Comps available for members of the press upon request. Please contact:
[email protected] or (310) 617-9383
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