PAPER TRAILS PREMIERES THREE SHORT PLAYS AT HOLLYWOOD FRINGE

Paper Trails

LOS ANGELES, CA: FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

Off the Page Productions is excited to announce their trio of women-written short plays, PAPER TRAILS, is premiering at the 2019 Hollywood Fringe Festival this June 7th – 29th.

PAPER TRAILS is a collection of three funny and poignant short pieces that showcase the records we keep and the stories they tell. In DEAR DIARY, a queer woman discovers eighth-grade diary entries detailing her first-ever crush on a girl; in EGUCHI, a woman recounts her great-grandmother’s efforts to preserve her family’s legacy amidst the austerity of World War II Japan; and in SNOW, congressional archivists piece together official documents torn to shreds by an impulsive president.

“Hard as we try to bury the past, sometimes it emerges in unexpected ways,” said producer Jillian Profeta. “These three plays are prime examples of how our personal and cultural memories inform our present and influence our future.”

All three plays are based on stories personal to the playwrights, told in their unique and authentic voices. Just as EGUCHI tells the true stories of writer Isabelle Moreau’s great-grandmother and SNOW reflects an ongoing situation faced by archivists in Washington, D.C., all of the journal entries quoted by writer/director Helen Burak in DEAR DIARY are real quotes from her eighth-grade diary. “Comedy is a great way to work through challenging feelings, and I wrote DEAR DIARY largely as a way to deal with my sense of betrayal at all the fear and internalized homophobia I discovered coming from thirteen-year-old Helen. It was important for me to find a way to forgive my younger self.”

PAPER TRAILS opens at Asylum’s Studio C with a preview performance on June 7th at 8:30pm. It will run five performances: June 7th @ 8:30pm / June 15th @ 3:30pm / June 21st @ 10:00pm / June 23rd @ 2:00pm / June 29th @ 9:30pm. Tickets are $7 on the HFF website or at the door, and $6 with the purchase of a Fringe Button.

“These plays are about silver linings,” Moreau explained. “They’re all very different, focused on different personal issues, but at the core they’re united in a mutual pain and the struggle to smile through it.”

For more information, check the Hollywood Fringe Festival website (http://hff19.org/6198) or find the creative team on social media @papertrailsplay.

DEAR DIARY
written by Helen Burak
directed by Molly Shalgos and Helen Burak
starring Audra Leffingwell and Helen Burak

EGUCHI
written by Isabelle Moreau
directed by Joanna Cross
starring Amanda Noriko Newman

SNOW
written by CJ Hoke
directed by Nate Myers
starring Christine Weatherup and Tim Dvorak

produced by Jillian Profeta

WHERE:
Studio C
6448 Santa Monica Blvd
Los Angeles, CA 90038

WHEN:
June 7th @ 8:30pm
June 15th @ 3:30pm
June 21st @ 10:00pm
June 23rd @ 2:00pm
June 29th @ 9:30pm

RUN TIME:
30 minutes

TICKETS:
$7 at http://hff19.org/6198
SOCIAL MEDIA:
Instagram & Twitter: @papertrailsplay
Facebook: https://bit.ly/2YR0NWT

GRAPHICS:
https://drive.google.com/open?id=1gJRTdIJL0nf9Fz2pT2jMKsmBp-qvlEi1

PRESS CONTACT:
Jillian Profeta
[email protected]