About the Project
2026 Hollywood Fringe Scholarship Recipient.
Funded by Hollywood Pantages Theatre and County Supervisor Lindsey P Horvath.
MUMMY is a delusical about what happens when you’re a 38-year-old artist, want children, can’t afford rent, and find yourself becoming an unpaid live-in nanny for a wealthy industry family just to be near the life you thought you’d always have.
Inspired by true events, the show follows Kayla, a struggling multi-hyphenate who never became a star, never became a mother, and is running out of time to become anything. When she moves into the guesthouse of a successful artist’s home in exchange for childcare, she tells herself it’s a temporary investment in her dwindling future. The return will be mentorship and connections. One last Hail Mary move to make it in LA.
Kayla becomes increasingly involved in Camilla’s family, and when an illness is revealed, the arrangement expands from childcare into something much more enmeshed. As the environment becomes traumatic, Kayla’s alter ego, Alektra Hex, appears.
Told through original micro songs, fantasy sequences, self-implicating confessions, and the occasional pop-star hallucination, MUMMY explores the places we find ourselves in, searching for a mother’s love long after childhood is over: Hollywood, homelessness, other people’s families.
Part memoir, part musical, part psychological horror story about belonging and carework, MUMMY is about the difference between being useful and being loved.
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