SERVING BRULEE Comes to the 2018 New York International Fringe Festival

"Serving Brûlée", a dark comedy by Soné Anandpara opens at the 2018 New York International Fringe Festival October 12th with performances thru October 24th. Chelsea B. Lockie directs Soné Anandpara and Ivy Hong in this humorous post #MeToo reckoning of societal standards.

Ladies, have you been your best today? - is implied by magazines, shampoo ads, Instagram, self-help books and profiles of successful women. Perfection seems to be the foremost quality women strive for without admitting it out loud...or is it?

During a live taping of "Serving Brûlée with Lila Das", cookbook guru Lila Das begins the premiere episode of her TV show by taking an unfastidious and unwitting guest, graduate student Michelle Stiles, along the various routes women travel to batter and blister themselves into delectable perfection while imparting her coveted secret recipe. However, when one mistake leads to another Lila suffers a panic attack, and as Michelle attempts to quickly pull her through it a much darker secret is revealed.

"Serving Brûlée" presents an opportunity to bring women (and men) together to laugh at and examine one of society's eternal questions, "Are you being your best self?" Have you achieved your "Inner Brûlée"? It's an ode to how, in the process of wanting to impress one another, women also rescue each other along the way. It's also a show you might well remember as you attempt to straighten your hair the next morning.

Creator and star, Soné Anandpara, graduated from NYU's Stern School of Business and is the voice behind These United Scrapes, a satirical weekly "news" column (www. theseunitedscrapes.com), A student of the Barrow Group Theater Company, she has studied sketch/improvisation at Magnet Theater and Upright Citizens Brigade. She previously wrote for "The Box", an intersectional feminist comedy show.

Ivy Hong (Michelle Stiles) studies and performs comedy with Magnet Theater Company and Upright Citizens Brigade. She has performed in stage productions for Denmark's Living Dead and "Final Curtain; the Last of Ed Woods".

Director Chelsea B. Lockie directs new works in theater and film, ranging from female driven comedies to emotionally driven character dramas. Her recent credits include "Radical" by Sergio Castillo presented at the NAACP conference in North Carolina, "Coming Out", a web pilot produced by Hapa Media and "Woe is She", an eight part web series produced by Kave LLC.

"Serving Brûlée" opens at FringeNYC 2018 (Fringe Hub 685 Washington Street at Charles Street) on Friday October 12th at 7:30PM. The performance schedule is Friday October 12 at 7:30PM, Sunday October 14 at 3PM, Wednesday October 17 at 9PM, Saturday October 20 at 7PM and Wednesday October 24 at 9PM. Tickets are $22. For tickets and more information go to www.fringenyc.org. Also visit www.servingbrulee.com.