EAST MEETS WEST IN MORE WAYS THAN ONE - THE WOMEN OF TU-NA HOUSE

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

EAST MEETS WEST IN MORE THAN ONE WAY AS THE WOMEN OF TU-NA HOUSE, ALL THE WAY FROM NYC, COME TO PLAY IN L.A.

Contact:
Nancy Eng/Mad Cat Productions (646) 431-8644/www.womenoftunahouse.com
Ariel Estrada/Leviathan Lab (347) 581-3047/www.Leviathanlab.com

For add’l details or to purchase $12 tickets visit:
www.HFF12.org/698
or
ww.womenoftunahouse.com

New York, NY, June 1, 2012 – Mad Cat Productions in collaboration with THE HOLLYWOOD FRINGE FESTIVAL is proud to present THE WOMEN OF TU-NA HOUSE, making its WEST COAST DEBUT on the FRINGE CENTRAL MAINSTAGE with ONLY THREE performances at the OPEN FIST THEATRE COMPANY, located at 6209 Santa Monica Boulevard, on Tuesday (preview) June 12th @8pm, Thursday June 14th @5:30pm and Saturday June 16th @3:30pm.

What matters most… the size of the boat, the motion of the ocean or Jeremy Lin? Find out as you’re whisked on a wild visit to an Asian massage parlor, where you’re guaranteed plenty of bang for your buck, and meet the women who work there, a succession of eight disparate, distinct characters, as they search for their own “happy endings.”
Written and performed by veteran New York actress NANCY ENG, this funny & entertaining ONE-WOMAN SHOW offers a rare glimpse into a surprising, comical and sometimes sad world generally seen only through almond-shaped eyes.

Last performed at the 15th Annual NEW YORK INT’L FRINGE FESTIVAL (FringeNYC) to sold-out audiences last August, THE WOMEN OF TU-NA HOUSE ranked in the top ten out of 190+ shows and garnered a rave review (www.hyreviews.com/fringenyc2011-reviews.htm#tu-na),
Developed during Eng’s participation in Pan Asian Repertory Theatre’s Acting/Writing Workshop (PART) and NewWorks 2011, The Women of Tu-Na House was originally conceived as a showcase for three actresses but emerged as a viable one-women show after much encouragement from the PART workshop’s instructor, Ernest Abuba, an Obie Recipient and member of the theatre faculty at Sarah Lawrence College, who has also been the show’s director since inception.

ABOUT NANCY ENG, PLAYWRIGHT/PERFORMER
Nancy Eng (SAG/AFTRA/AEA) is an alumna of the original “Fame” High School of Performing Arts with a BFA from NYU’s Tisch School of the Arts whose credits include television roles on 30 Rock, Rubicon, Law & Order: SVU and film roles in Fame, God’s Land, Premium Rush. Stage credits include roles in PART’s recent production of WE ARE at the West End Theatre (“Nancy Eng offers an energetic and welcome comedic break…” – NYtheatre.com), the 1st half of Pan Asian Rep’s Vietnam Project II and the 13th Street Repertory Theatre’s production of Orphans.

Playwright and actor NANCY ENG speaks:
“Although it would be better to say my intent was to change the way others think, make the world a better place or to give voice to those who are frequently seen but seldom heard with tales often imagined but rarely told, I cannot. The Woman of Tu-Na House was created as a form of therapy following the death of my beloved cat Madison to simply entertain.”