For Immediate Release, Los Angeles, CA—May 30th, 2015- Simple Dog
Productions is happy to bring their production of Smudge to the
Hollywood Fringe Festival. Written by Rachel Axler (Emmy Award
winning staff writer of The Daily Show and currently writing for
NBC’s Parks and Recreation) and directed by Los Angeles based
director/producer Rebecca Eisenberg ( The Pitchfork Disney,
The Homosexuals, Wolves) the play revolves around a young married
couple awaiting the birth of their first child, having never imagined
the challenges would become even greater than either of them had ever
anticipated. Smudge is “. . . pitch black funny” (Variety) and “ a
play that sticks with you, both for its laughs and its message”
(CURTAINUP), while at the same time it, “. . . taps into a primal
fear — giving birth to a monster and then calmly considers it from
all angles” (The New York Times). Smudge deals with questions of
family, of ‘being’, and un
