"BEST OF" SHORTS!
Fierce: LA Streets
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Contact: Jeffrey Wylie
Producer/Fierce Backbone
Phone: 323-445-1029
Email: [email protected]
FIERCE BACKBONE
DOES THE
HOLLYWOOD FRINGE FESTIVAL
FIERCE: LA STREETS is one of 3 programs of shorts being produced by Fierce Backbone in the Hollywood Fringe Fest this June.
Three shorts unravel the extraordinary in ordinary lives set against the dark and dangerous streets of LA.
DUSTED
Written by Jan O’Connor, directed by Amy Tofte
Tinkerbell hits Hollywood… and it ain’t all smiles and fairy dust.
THE POOL OF GOLD IN THE SKY
Written & Directed by Jan O’Connor
An airline pilot adrift on skid row late one night is almost caught by the Fisher of Men.
TRIO
Written & Directed by Amy Tofte
A daring mash-up of the voices of homeless women, gang bangers, and young fighters as they all struggle to survive and thrive in the asphalt jungle.
FIERCE: LA STREETS
Underground Theater – 1312 N. Wilton
Sunday 6/10 @ 7PM
Saturday 6/16 @ 8:30PM
Sunday 6/17 @ 4PM
Monday 6/18 @ 7PM
Saturday 6/23 @ 8:30PM
Sunday 6/24 @ 1PM
AMY TOFTE (Playwright/Director) received her MFA from California Institute of the Arts (CalArts) Writing for Performance program in May 2011. Her play Flesh Eating Tiger premiered at the Edinburgh Fringe in August 2011. She has also been a playwright at the Last Frontier Theatre Conference in Valdez, AK (2009, 2010, 2011) and the Kennedy Center’s MFA Playwrights Residency (2009). Her plays have been produced in the Midwest, New York, Mississippi, Alaska, Los Angeles and the U.K. She is a founder of Fierce Backbone and a proud member of The Dramatists Guild of America, Inc. www.amytofte.com
jan o’connor (Playwright/Director) Jan’s The Girl Who Would Be King was nominated for Backstage and LA Weekly awards. Two of her short plays, Garden of Ashes and Angels Flight, were produced at New York’s Looking Glass Theatre this year. Her award-‐winning comedy, Taken For A Ride, is currently in its 7th production at LA’s Red Brick Road Theatre. Gayby’s Playdate, here at HFF, won festivals in New York and Minnesota and was a West Hollywood GLBT Play winner. Happily, almost all these plays were developed in LA’s Fierce Backbone Writers Workshop. Also a director, Jan just completed the annual Directors Lab West workshop in LA.
FIERCE BACKBONE
We are a group of playwrights, actors and directors who gather together
to develop new plays while also developing as artists in our respective fields. We shepherd plays through development from the writer’s first draft—staged readings, workshop performances, full production—with a supportive “peer-review” process, maintaining a writer’s vision through our diverse artistic talents.
This process has yielded our 7 productions in the Hollywood Fringe, encompassing 14 plays by 9 writers, utilizing 11 directors and 28 actors, producing 46 performances in 6 venues.
“The art of writing has for backbone some fierce attachment to an idea.” Virginia Woolf
Show times and individual press releases for other Fierce Backbone productions are available at www.hollywoodfringe.com.
