DOUBLE BLIND to Make World Premiere at Hollywood Fringe 2013, 6/10-30

Right Mistake Productions will present the World Premiere play DOUBLE BLIND as part of the Hollywood Fringe Festival this June. The show will play the Theatre Asylum - 6320 Santa Monica Blvd. Hollywood, Calif., on June 10 and 17 at 7 p.m.; June 24 and 28 at 8:30 p.m. and Sunday, June 30 at 4 p.m. Running time: 75 minutes.

For reservations, call 310-902-3142 or visit www.doublebindtheplay.com. Admission: $12. For more about the show, find it on Facebook: www.facebook.com/DoubleBindHFF and Twitter @DoubleBindHff.

"Double Bind" a world premiere play by Blake Abramovitz. Set in present day Los Angeles, "Double Bind" is a raw and poetic two-act drama about two friends, Sam and Frank, who once traveled the world together having wild adventures. As the play begins, Sam, an intellectual and a poet at heart, has settled down with a beautiful, serious-minded woman, Laura, and a real job. But Frank, a charismatic yet wounded soul, desperately misses the only true friend he ever had. And so, in a misguided effort to get him back, he sets about trying to upend Sam and Laura's life.

This is a play about the agonizing tension within many of us between freedom, madness and adventure on the one hand, and home, intimacy and family on the other. And just as importantly, it's about the ways in which early abandonment and neglect continue to restrict our capacity to love as adults.

BLAKE SHIELDS ABRAMOVITZ (writer / Frank) I have been acting in Hollywood for over fifteen years, during which time I've been happy to be mostly flush with money and unemployed, allowing me to explore other interests as well- like partying, yoga, meditation, psychology and writing. The work I've done in these areas has led me to the grim realization that the whole reason I came to Hollywood in the first place involved certain old and secret misfortunes, misfortunes which have largely driven my adult life. I don't want to suggest there's an upside, but if there were one, perhaps it would be that knowing this has inspired me to create art about it. And perhaps creating art about it can shine some light on it, and in turn help other unlucky souls to arrive at similarly unbearable epiphanies.

CERI BETHAN (Laura) got her start at age 11 when she toured the United Kingdom with the internationally renowned Glyndebourne's Touring Opera Company, in a performance of Puccini's La Boheme She later starred in the indie horror cult classic, "The Big Finish," and went on to receive her BA Hons degree in Drama at the University of Wales, Aberystwyth. Her most beloved role during this period was "Estella" in Charles Dickens' Great Expectaions. Thirsty for more, she next headed to New York to receive a diploma for acting from The American Academy of Dramatic Arts. Ceri can now be seen in such titles as the upcoming feature "Cavemen," the short "Natalie 2554," and is also the co-founder of Right Mistake Productions. She is currently residing in Los Angeles, where she continues to train with Warner Loughlin Studios.

CLARK FREEMAN (Sam) was born and raised in downtown Chicago and went on to Middlebury College in Vermont. Clark has starred in and Executive Produced the thriller/horror feature YELLOWBRICKROAD, as well as acted in Beverly Hills Chihuahua 2, 21 and a Wake Up, and the Sci-Fi short SIMULACRUM. He has also been seen on NBC's Parks and Recreation, Showtime's Masters of Sex, and CBS'sFamily Law, starred in numerous independent films, and was co-founder of The Sight Unseen Theatre Group. In 8 years with Sight Unseen, Clark starred in many productions and favorites included Monster, Quarterlife, One Flea Spare, The Graves of San Andreas, and Lucid Sound. Occasionally, he can be seen playing drums with his band, The Real D'Coy, which played at 2012's Isle of Wight Music Festival in the UK.

Aaron Lyons (Director) is a graduate of the University of Massachusetts @ Amherst's Theatre Department, where he began his training as an actor, director, designer, and production manager. He continued his training in the subsequent 120+ productions that have taken him to 48 States and 9 Countries. Further still, his education continued at the Antaeus Company in North Hollywood. He has been seen as Vincent de la Vega in the hit production of the critically acclaimed PULP SHAKESPEARE (Hollywood Fringe Festival 2011 "Best of Fringe" WINNER; and Nominated for two 2011 LA Weekly Awards- including Best Comedic Ensemble). Other works include MacBeth (as MacBeth), Cousin Bette (with the Antaeus Company), Voices from Chornobyl, and Cosmonaut's Last Message to the Woman He Once Loved in the Former Soviet Union (LA Weekly Award Winner). AEA/SAG-AFTRA www.aaronlyons.net.

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