LOVE CHICKEN: A NONBINARY LOVE STORY

Love Chicken

PRESS RELEASE – LOVE CHICKEN

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
June 1, 2022

Making its stage debut at this year’s Hollywood Fringe Festival:

Love Chicken
Written & Directed by Maddox K. Pennington

Love Chicken explores interpersonal questions of belonging, choices, and love. The main characters, Yan and Lolo, are struggling with the same challenges of friendship that so many adults do—particularly in the queer and trans communities where friendships can be difficult to develop and maintain in the shifting contexts of romantic and platonic dynamics. Complicating things further are Yan’s straight, cis husband Dave and Lolo’s new crush, Max, a bartender who is more comfortable holding back than expressing themselves. These conflicts unfold over the planning of a chaotic weekend getaway and an eventful night at Lolo’s apartment in the aftermath.

You can see performances of Love Chicken at the Asylum @ McCadden Theatre:

1157 N. McCadden Pl, Los Angeles, Ca 90038

Sunday, June 5, 2022 – 6:30pm(preview) | 90 min
Friday, June 10, 2022 – 7:30pm | 90 min
Saturday, June 18, 2022 – 3:30pm | 90 min

Ticket Info: www.hollywoodfringe.org/projects/7380?tab=tickets
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Maddox Pennington (Playwright, Director) is a nonbinary writer, professor, and comic. A citizen of the Cherokee Nation, they are originally from Tulsa, Oklahoma. They received an MFA in Creative Nonfiction from Columbia University, and prior to coming out as nonbinary, their debut bibliomemoir, A Girl Walks Into a Book: What the Brontes Taught Me About Life, Love, and Women’s Work was published by Hachette Books in 2017. Their work explores gender, sexuality, mental health, belonging, and frequently invokes magical realism. They moved to Los Angeles in 2021 to teach at the University of Southern California, after previously teaching at American University in Washington DC, where they also performed standup comedy and storytelling. This is their Hollywood Fringe production debut. Other work receiving public readings this year includes Embers Borne West, with MovingArts MADLab in LA and Annex, which will be recorded for the Portland-based Theatre Viscera Podcast series in October. You can find them online at @MKPinLA.