SPRINGLOADED: a Show 25 Years in the Making Comes to Fringe

Around twenty-five years ago, performer Margot Rose got inspired to write and perform a solo show about her first two tumultuous decades in show business, years filled with trials, tribulations and LOTS of mind-altering substances. She was at a turning point...or so she thought. Turns out, life still had several more highs and lows in store for her.

But it's never too late and for an artist like Rose, the wait-and the extra perspective, experience and stories it brought her-was well worth it. As such, she is thrilled to (finally!) premiere Springloaded, playing at the Hudson Guild Theatre in June as part of the Hollywood Fringe Festival.

In Springloaded, a woman finds herself untethered and unhappy within the fast passing years. Out of good ideas, she turns to face her younger selves, expecting she can easily restore her lost faith and belief in herself by revisiting the simpler, happier times of the past. What could possibly go wrong? She dives in with her heart and eyes wide open, reflecting back with stories and original songs, and along the way she finds what's been hidden only a step away...her whole, authentic undiscovered self. Springloaded is a musical meditation on lost years, forgotten dreams, delinquent DNA...and discovery.

Rose started performing for the stage when she was just eleven years old in Northern Indiana and not long after she started playing and eventually writing original music. Her schooling and career tool her to North Carolina, then New York and eventually to L.A., where she's racked up almost a hundred film and television credits on shows like Desperate Housewives, Law & Order, The Mentalist, The Nine, Star Trek: The Next Generation, The West Wing, Judging Amy and many more.

She's also performed her music all over L.A., songs that have always been as she describes, achingly autobiographical...something in common with her show. For as much success as Rose enjoyed along with the fulfilling experience of having children, she also saw her share of pain and heartbreak with a crippling chronic illness, a struggle to have children, doubts about her career, conflicts, loss, fear, death and the many tragedies of life.

"Through all of it, the high and the lows, I kept thinking about this show, but I could never finish it," she said. "Last summer, I was able to find a way to push through the last self-made obstacles and completely commit myself to getting it done and ready to show the world. As it turns out, I'm doing that here at the Hollywood Fringe Festival. Now, I'm all in!"