(IM)PERFEKT - ACTRESS LOSES ALL HER HAIR AND TURNS IT INTO HER SUPERPOWER, AND A SHOW.
May 23, 2019
In 2014 actress Jannica Olin lost all her hair. It was Alopecia, the doctors said. “An autoimmune disease with no known cause or cure.” And so the journey began. Of losing not just her hair, but her identity. How do you deal with losing that which is your beauty and femininity? Does this now mean people will see you as sick? Or worse. Ugly.
(IM)PERFEKT isn’t the story of a woman’s journey back to herself. It is the story of redefining what beauty and perfect is supposed to look like. Olin is thrilled to be making her Hollywood Fringe debut with her powerful one woman show.
“My hair loss is my access to the question: Who am I now if that which I identify with is gone? We attach ourselves and our worth to a lot of ideas and things that really has nothing to do with who we are. And more often than not, we are limited by it.”
Olin, a Swedish born actor and a graduate of The Neighborhood Playhouse in New York has been developing the show with acclaimed solo theatre artist and award wi
