INVITATION TO LOVE…AND DEATH PREMIERES AT THE HFF19
Invitation to Love...and Death
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
May 21, 2019
PRESS CONTACT:
TJ O’Brien
[email protected]
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INVITATION TO LOVE…AND DEATH
PREMIERES AT THE HFF19
Los Angeles, May 21, 2019. Dark, biting ensemble comedy Invitation To Love…and Death, written, directed and produced by TJ O’Brien, introduces us to the wild and wacky world of the hit reality show Invitation to Love—an unlikely cross between The Bachelor and American Idol. Invitation To Love…and Death opens as part of the Hollywood Fringe Festival on June 9th at McCadden Place Theatre – 1157 N. McCadden Place, Los Angeles CA 90038.
In Invitation to Love…and Death, male and female “Love Guests” participate in talent competitions to remain in the running to win a proposal from the bisexual “Love Host”. Suddenly, on the night of the singing competition, it starts being targeted by a serial killer…and one by one, contestants and crew find themselves dying for love…literally! Can love survive? Will ANYONE survive? And whodunit?
While this is the world premiere of the show in its entirety, portions of Invitation to Love…and Death were staged as a serialized entry in the 2016-17 season of Serial Killers at Sacred Fools, and it made the final eight of the season playoffs.
WHERE: McCadden Place Theatre – 1157 N. McCadden Place, Los Angeles CA 90038
PERFORMANCE DATES:
Sunday, June 9, 2019 at 6PM (Preview)
Friday, June 14, 2019 at 8:30PM
Sunday, June 16, 2019 at 5PM
Saturday, June 29, 2019 at 10PM
Sunday, June 30, 2019 at 3PM
Running time: 75 min – Suitable for 18+.
TICKETS – $12.00 – hff19.org/5830
Written, directed and produced by TJ O’Brien. Fight Choreography by Marc Antonio Pritchett. Starring Laura Bohlin, Eileen Chase, Kristen Egermeier*, James Hawthorn, Jon Eric Hoffman, Colin Thomas Jennings*, Missy Mannila, TJ O’Brien, Ryan Stathos, Glenda Suggs, Peter Tullio, and Colin Willkie. (An Equity Approved Showcase, actors indicated with * appear courtesy of Actors’ Equity Association.)
TJ O’BRIEN (Writer/Director/Producer/Kyle) has been living with these characters since December 2015, when his mad dash to write the first two scenes before they escaped his head made him late for his building holiday party. After lasting for four serialized episodes in the 2016-17 season of Serial Killers at Sacred Fools, he is excited to present Invitation to Love…and Death in its entirety with no fear of being voted out! He has also written three other Serial Killers entries: Christmastown 00000, Alex in Agencyland, and These Are Days, which lasted anywhere from one to four episodes each. A Chicago native and proud Columbia College theater grad, he originated the role of Rudolph in the Chicago holiday parody perennial Rudolph the Red-Hosed Reindeer and had a bucket of blood drenched on him every weekend for a year and a half as Carrie in sCarrie: The Musical! Other favorite theater roles include Bob in Beyond Therapy, Drew in Eastern Standard, Adult Christina in Joan Crawford Goes to Hell, and Neely O’Hara in Valley of the Dolls. On television, you may have seen him as a murder victim’s disapproving roommate on The Coroner: I Speak For The Dead or heard him as the English voice of manbunned mobster Mads on the Netflix Danish crime series Warrior, and he just played futuristic villains in the USC shorts A Wide Awake World and Techno Vampire. He is a member of Celebration Theatre and an associate member of Sacred Fools, where among other things, you can catch him singing more often than not at Ten Tops. A proud cat dad to Merlin and MoMo, TJ is slowly wrapping his head around the notion that good things just might happen to him.
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