FOLLOWER

Follower

Written/Performed by Katheryn McGaffigan
Plays at Actors Company (The Little Theater): June 9, 14, 20, 27 and 28

Los Angeles, CA —
Sleeping through her days and desperate to feel awake, a young woman with a troubled past becomes fixated on a classmate who seems to exist in a world just beyond her reach. As her observations of him become an archive and fantasy becomes compulsion, Follower unfolds as a darkly comic and unsettling solo show about obsession, loneliness, parasocial attachment—and the stories we tell ourselves to survive.

Katheryn McGaffigan is a NYC-based playwright, Equity actor, and musician. She made her Off-Broadway debut with Follower, a solo show she wrote and performed, at Theatre Row as part of the United Solo Theatre Festival. Follower was further developed for an award-winning run at the NYC Fringe Festival, where its final two performances sold out. In film, Katheryn co-wrote and co-starred in As the Dust Settles, a participatory documentary about Burning Man. As a musician, she has performed internationally with the gypsy punk band Gogol Bordello, and her forthcoming EP features two members of the legendary Swans. Katheryn studied playwriting at Sarah Lawrence College and trained in solo performance at The Barrow Group, Go-Solo, and Magnet Theater. Her acting training includes Harvard University, The New Actors Workshop, and LAByrinth Theater Company, among others. She is a member of the Dramatists Guild, Playwrights’ Center, and the Association of Performing Arts Professionals.

“Follower is an experience unlike any other—fascinating, strange, and at times jaw-dropping…worth seeing for yourself. Inventive and bizarre…transgressive.” -Theatre Beyond Broadway

Audience responses have included:
“Meticulously and masterfully made.” -Festival audience member
“A brilliant piece–the best instance of an unreliable narrator in live theater I’ve ever seen.” -Festival audience member
“Insane and beautiful.” -Festival audience member
“A fabulously psychotic and vulnerable show.”

Content Warning: Stalking, Moral Ambiguity

Performance Details —
Venue:
Actors Company (The Little Theater): 916 N. Formosa Avenue, Los Angeles, CA 90046

Schedule:
Tuesday, June 9 at 5:00 p.m.
Sunday, June 14 at 7:00 p.m.
Saturday, June 20 at 10:30 p.m.
Saturday, June 27 at 3:00 p.m.
Sunday, June 28 at 8:30 p.m.

Tickets:
$15 or Pay What You Can: https://www.hollywoodfringe.org/projects/14396

Press Kit: https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1decIpwtcV4Z2InAKtr5_unahqJzXGhp6?usp=sharing