BORN AGAIN BOHEMIAN ~ AMIDST PARENTAL PENDULUM EXTREMES, HOW DOES A BORN AGAIN FLOWER CHILD FIND SANITY?

Willow’s Edge Productions News Release
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
CONTACT (media only): C. Raul Espinoza
(323) 786-6281
[email protected]

BORN AGAIN BOHEMIAN, A HOLLYWOOD FRINGE FESTIVAL PREMIERE,
SET TO OPEN AT THE OPEN FIST THEATRE FOR LIMITED 6 PERFORMANCE RUN
JUNE 12 – 26, 2011

Willow’s Edge Productions with Kaleidoscope Theatre Ensemble have announced the 2011 Hollywood Fringe Festival premiere of Born Again Bohemian. This serio-comic multi-media soloshow with original music, written and performed by Summer “Rain” Sinclair and directed by the critically acclaimed Debra De Liso, will perform its limited run at the Open Fist Theatre and will include one pay-what-you-can preview performance on Sunday, June 12 at 3 pm and an additional 5 performances through Sunday, June 26 only. Born Again Bohemian – Amidst parental pendulum extremes, how does a born again flower child find sanity? As if being born a love child with the name “Summer Rain” weren’t extreme enough, Summer’s mother swung to opposite extreme and joined the Jesus movement, while her hippie father chose to live off of the grid. A clash of parental lifestyles created a single parent home where Summer’s
fundamentalist mother didn’t want her dead-beat dad in the picture. The show follows Summer on her personal quest, trying to make sense of her Pentecostal, evangelical upbringing and the inevitable reckoning with a side of her family history she never knew existed, until she lifts up the rock. Yearning for love from a father figure in a religion where her questions never get answered, Summer reaches into the Cosmos, searching for her identity and some semblance of balance, and we learn about a unique moment in time in our American History that leaves most sane people boggle-eyed.

Summer “Rain” Sinclair holds a BA degree in theatre from Seattle Pacific University, and she also completed American Conservatory Theatre’s Summer Training Congress where she studied under Pulitzer nominated playwright and acting teacher Amy Freed. Summer received her teaching credential from CSULB and has been an itinerant elementary/middle-school theatre teacher for the Arts Education Branch/LAUSD. She directed Romeo & Juliet with seventh and eighth graders onstage at USC’s
Bovard Auditorium for 32nd St. Performing Arts Magnet school. She played Helena and taught workshops for Kingsmen Shakespeare Company’s TYA tour of A Midsummer Night’s Dream. Summer is a member of the Classical Theatre Lab where she played Julia in The Two Gentlemen of Verona for the City of West Hollywood’s free Shakespeare in the parks summer series, and multiple staged readings where she met Debra De Liso. Previously, she was a member of The Met Theatre where she appeared
in such shows as Electra, Macbeth, The Tempest, and also wrote two one-act plays that were produced for the Tenx10 play festival. Favorite Seattle stage roles include: Maggie in A Chorus Line (Broadway Performance Hall) and Godspell (Edge of the World Theatre). Summer’s award-winning short film Now or Never, which she co-wrote, co-produced and starred in, won a Jury Prize at the 2010 Oxford Film Festival and an Audience Award at the 2010 Valley Film Festival, in addition to being an official selection at the 2010 Cannes Independent Film Festival, Cannes Short Film Corner and Seattle True Independent Film Festival. Now or Never has also been submitted to the 2011 Hollywood Fringe Film Program. Summer’s breakout supporting role in the feature film The Last Gamble, starring Steven Bauer, Sally Kirkland and John Savage is screening this May at Cannes Film Market. Ms. Sinclair’s television appearances include: The Bold and The Beautiful, The Young and the Restless, Sleeper Cell,and the Streamy nominated web series Star-ving and Blue Movies. Summer is a member of SAG,
AFTRA, and AEA. Full filmography available at www.imdb.me/summersinclair

The running schedule is as follows: THERE WILL BE ONE PAY-WHAT-YOU-CAN
PREVIEW PERFORMANCE ON SUNDAY, JUNE 12 AT 3PM WHICH THE MEDIA IS
INVITED TO ATTEND, BUT IS ALSO WELCOME AT ANY OTHER PERFORMANCE
AFTER THAT DATE. The Hollywood Fringe Festival performance schedule for BORN AGAIN BOHEMIAN is: Sunday, June 12 @ 3 pm, Fridays June 17 & 24 and Thursday June 23 at 8pm, Saturday June 18 at 10pm, and Sunday June 26 at 3pm.

Admission prices are only $12 for performances. There will be a ‘Pay-What-You-Can’ on Sunday, June 12 at 3pm. Tickets are available by visiting www.BornAgainBohemian.com or www.hollywoodfringe.org/projects/403
or calling #(310) 312-8988.

All performances will be held at Open Fist Theatre located at 6209 Santa Monica Blvd. Hollywood, CA 90038. Street parking. Meters are free at 8pm and on Sundays.

PRODUCTION BIOS
Debra De Liso (Director) has guided the writing and directed nearly 300 One-Person Shows at the American Academy of Dramatic Arts, USC, and professionally. She enjoys the challenging and personal work of taking actors through the autobiographical writing process into performance. She has written two of her own solo pieces, one about her disabled but inspirational mother, The Nurse June Show, and one about dance artist Isadora Duncan, Isadora’s Dream. Solo plays include Cock Tales, which ran for ten months in Hollywood. Jay Sefton’s original solo play The Most Mediocre Story
Never Told, won Best Solo Play 2008 by L.A. Weekly and earned critical acclaim at the Actor’s Playhouse in New York at the NYC International Fringe Festival. For television, Debra received a three year California Arts Council Grant to teach acting and playwriting at California Rehabilitation Center, a medium security prison, which was some of the most difficult and rewarding work she has done to date. Recently Debra played the lead female in the world premiere of Donald Freed’s 1951-2006
at LATC, nominated Best Play, and performed in The Einstein Plan with James Cromwell. www.DebraDeLiso.com.

Kaleidoscope Theatre Ensemble, Inc. (Co-Producer) was founded by Glen S. Jimenez in December 2000 while pursuing an Associates of Arts Degree in Theatre at Rio Hondo Community College and working with the school’s Children’s Theatre Program in the local community. His idea was to establish a place where new works (both full length and one-acts) can be performed as well as help children learn about theatre and use it as an alternative to drugs and gangs. Kaleidoscope Theatre Ensemble’s mission is to educate and entertain the community and particularly the children through the use of theatre and improvisation. www.KaleidoscopeTheater.org

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05-16-11