Bela Lugosi Meets Edna St. Vincent Millay

About the Project

Widely acclaimed and award-nominated So Cal actress Rose London spins a zany, improbable tale about Bela Lugosi (1882-1956), the iconic star of Dracula, and Edna St. Vincent Millay (1892-1950), the Pulitzer Prize-winning poet of the Jazz Age—how the poster girl for Women’s Lib, who burns the candle at both ends as she sleeps her way through Greenwich Village in the Roaring ‘20s, meets up with (or does she?) the vampire player and political refugee from Hungary determined to leave his mark on the world, or at least on its neck. Written by award-winning playwright Jordan R. Young. Directed by by award-winning director Christine Cummings.

Performing at the Broadwater Black Box, 6322 Santa Monica Blvd. (just up the street from the studio where Chaplin and Keaton made many of their best films): Thu 6/5 @ 8pm, Sun 6/15 @ 12:30pm, Tue 6/24 @ 6:30pm, Sat 6/28 @ 4pm and 7pm.

“A wild ride through the lives of two modern freethinkers of the mid-20^th Century, whose passion for expression churned within them, realized through vivid artistic creations that grew out from under them… We feel ourselves caught up amid the Hollywood/Greenwich Village glitterati, living for that brief, most precious moment in which that candle continues to burn.”

— solo performer/playwright Tim Mooney, Moliere Than Thou

“It’s a love letter to Millay and Lugosi. It’s woven together beautifully…and it’s got teeth.”

—solo performer/playwright Miranda Jonte, Good & Kissed

 “There is definitely a lot of juice in this piece, with genuinely delicious, nostalgic, even important old Hollywood topics like the blacklist, subversion, actor exploitation and sex.”

—Tracey Paleo, Gia on the Move 

“Jordan R. Young’s one-woman show “Bela Lugosi Meets Edna St. Vincent Millay” creates an unlikely but fascinating intersection of two cultural figures who never actually met…avoids the weaknesses of biographical plays through sharp comic timing and unexpected contrasts. "

—James Scarborough, What the Butler Saw: An Arts Magazine