HOLLYWOOD FRINGE PREMIERES FIRST MIDDLE-EASTERN/NORTH AFRICAN COMEDY-IMPROV PLAY AT 2021 FESTIVAL

Tribe

Los Angeles, Calif. — Winner of the HFF Diversity Scholarship, “TRIBE: The Story of the First Arab American Improv Team” makes its performance debut at the 2021 Hollywood Fringe Festival. The story is about a struggling Lebanese-American actress who forms the first all-Arab improv team in a shawarma spin on ensemble competitions. With the Five Pillars of Improv, our band of underdogs incorporate REAL improv from audience suggestions in this production that will be LIVE + LIVESTREAMED from the Broadwater Black Box.

“Tribe” is the hybrid show of the hybrid festival – theater-improv meeting live+livestream formatting in this one-hour world premiere! Whether the audience is watching from home or are seated and giving Lulu your improv suggestions from the theater, be prepared to love live performance again! Leading lady Rana doesn’t do anything if she can’t win; seriously, she cheats at cards. So when Rana’s comedy idol announces an amateur improv competition that will put the winners on TV, she turns to her sister Lulu. Lulu gets the Arabs to assemble: Rana’s ride-or-die, a priest’s niece, a doctor, a model, and a new mother. After their improv team “The Arab Invasion” crushes round one out of three, Rana becomes the dictator no one wanted her to be. Can Rana leave behind her need to win and celebrate the success of finding her community?

PRODUCTION TEAM:
Written by Laila Abdo
Directed by Mijoe Sahiouni
Starring: Rana Fakih, Adron Duell, London Villamayor, Saer Karim, Jordan Haddad, Zein Khleif, and Sarah Bialkin.

BROADWATER. BLACK BOX PERFORMANCE DATES:
August 10 (preview) – 9:00 p.m. – 10:00 p.m.
August 14 – 6:30 p.m. – 7:30 p.m.
August 15 – 11:00 a.m. – 12:00 p.m.
August 21 – 9:30 p.m. – 10:30 p.m.
August 28 – 6:00 p.m. – 7:00 p.m.

ADDRESS:
6322 Santa Monica Blvd, Los Angeles, CA 90038
(Street Parking)

TICKET PRICE:
$10 Regular Admission – Live
Pay What You Can – Livestream

SHOW RUN TIME:
60 min.

Tickets are available at https://tinyurl.com/tribehff

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