HELLA FRESH FISH 3.0 TEN MINUTE PLAY FESTIVAL Opens 10/7

B. Someday Productions, the edgy, scrappy resident theatre company of New Kensington, and Hella Fresh, the New Theatre Company of West Kensington, team together to bring 12 new 10-minute plays, HELLA FRESH FISH 3.0 TEN MINUTE PLAY FESTIVAL brings 10 different playwrights, 30 actors, 9 directors and lots of short attention span shows to both the Walking Fish Theatre and the Papermill Theater. Members of the Press are invited to the Press Opening on Friday, October 7, 2011 at 8:00pm at Walking Fish Theatre, 2509 Frankford Avenue. Tickets are $20 for a single show; $25 for both shows on Saturday or Sunday, October 22 & 23.

On Sunday, October 16, after the 4:30pm performance, the award-winning playwright, Quinn Eli will moderate a talk back session with the actors, directors and audience.
The 10-minute plays for HELLA FRESH FISH were culled from nearly 500 submissions from around the world.

Quinn Eli's plays include "My Name is Bess," which received top honors in the 2006 Trustus Playwrights' Festival and was produced at Trustus Theatre in Columbia, SC; "Analawn," commissioned by People's Light and Theatre; "Tea for the Fever," which was a finalist for the Lark Play Development Center's 2006 Playwrights' Week; and "Hot Black/Asian Action," a comedy about sexual and racial stereotypes that premiered at the 2006 New York International Fringe Festival. The two-time recipient of Fellowships in Literature from the Pennsylvania Council for the Arts, Eli has published fiction and essays in Essence, New York Newsday, the Philadelphia Inquirer, and other publications. His most recent book, Homecoming: The Story of African American Farmers, is a companion volume to the PBS film. He is a member of the Philadelphia Dramatist Center.

The plays at Walking Fish:
Porn for Women by Kristen Scatton (Philadelphia), directed by Michelle Pauls. Three women fight over eating a greasy cheeseburger. Does watching really get you off?
The Joke by Miyoko Conley, directed by Jody Gross. A woman undergoes a mutation into her animal self to try to save humanity.

The Rental Company by Mark Cornell (Chapel Hill), directed by Stan Heleva. An unsuspecting schlub gets roped into some devious business when he tries to rent a car.
Karman Line by Seth Simons (Philadelphia), directed by Stan Heleva. Future pioneers start life anew when the sun threatens to blow.
Crummy by John Culver (New York), directed by Steven Wright. A lonely woman rents a room from an older man. She wants love, or is it just sex?
Flushed by Alex Broun (Australia), directed by Steven Wright. A couple bask in the glow of their post-coital romp when she hears the toilet flush. He did NOT flush that condom, did he?
Myth of Syphilis by Seth Simons (Philadelphia), directed by Heather Cole. Dying man recalls how he caught the disease and all the ladies who graced him with their presence..
A Door or Not a Door by Robin Rodriguez (Philadelphia), directed by Madi Distefano. A young girl and her grandmother con the cute guy on the bus, or do they?

The plays at Papermill Theater:
Do Not Push with Kevin Chick and Alex Suha
Operation: Reparation Occupation by Rogin Kim
The Sighting by Josh McIlvain
Automatic Fault Isolation by John Rosenberg

Hella Fresh Theater Company, located at the Papermill Theater, 2825 Ormes St. recently produced Queen of All Weapons, by John Rosenberg. B. Someday Productions at Walking Fish Theatre, 2509 Frankford Avenue, recently produced Mistaken Charity by Stan Heleva,

Show dates and times for Hella Fresh Fish at Walking Fish:
Wednesday, Oct 5 @ 7:00pm - Preview
Thursday, Oct 6 @ 7:00pm - Preview
Friday, Oct 7 @ 8:00pm - PRESS OPENING
Saturday, Oct 8 @ 8:00pm
Wednesday, Oct 12 @ 7:00pm
Thursday, Oct 13 @ 7:00pm
Friday, Oct 14 @ 8:00pm
Saturday, Oct 15 @ 8:00pm
Sunday, Oct 16 @ 4:30pm - Talk Back with Quinn Eli
Wednesday, Oct 19 @ 7:00pm
Thursday, Oct 20 @ 7:00pm
Friday, Oct 21 @ 8:00pm
Saturday, Oct 22 @ 8:00pm
Sunday, Oct 23 @ 4:30pm

Show dates and times for Hella Fresh Fish at Papermill Theater:
Saturday, Oct 22 @ 2:00pm
Sunday, Oct 23 @ 2:00pm

B. Someday Productions, a 501.c.(3) non-profit theatre-arts corporation, is a small independent producing and presenting theatre company, producing mainstage shows and cabaret productions, educational outreach programs, co-producing comedy, community and family theatre programs. B. Someday was recently honored with its first Barrymore Award for its outreach program, Of Mythic Proportions.

Established in 2007, Walking Fish Theatre, home to B. Someday Productions, is located in Kensington, on the Frankford Avenue Corridor of the Arts in Philadelphia. B. Someday is committed, within its community and beyond, to bringing and creating art on the Frankford Avenue Arts Corridor.

B. Someday Productions uses theatre, literature and myth to bring together artists and the community to discover new strategies for urban our challenges. To that end, B. Someday celebrates tradition while renewing the creative process through producing theatre--original, adaptation and in existence--providing educational programs and operating the Walking Fish Theatre.

The world "hella" is slang from Northern California meaning "very" - if you're from Boston is sort of translates to "wicked". John Rosenberg , the Hella Fresh director, used to be a theater artist in San Francisco. "It reflected a sensibility about the Bay Area. Not the most classy, but reflects the work we do." Eight months ago Rosenberg left his non-profit bookkeeping job in San Francisco and his established theater troop because his heart is now in Philadelphia: his girlfriend is working for her family's real estate business here too. But Rosenberg did not want to start all over again from scratch. "I can take 4 years and struggle and keep sending scripts out and saying, hey, remember me, we met at a party - I think you should produce a one-act. I produced my own work in San Francisco, the next crazy step is to make my own theater." Rosenberg is building that theater in an old warehouse in the Kensington neighborhood. He's never performed in Philadelphia before, and audiences have never come to this blighted block to see a play before. It's a $10,000 gamble.

"I cashed out my non-profit retirement fund and put it into the theater. Very rarely do you get your own theater space. You can either be scared by the freedom, or cash out your 403(b) retirement fund and hope for the best."

For more information, visit www.walkingfishtheatre.com.

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