Multi-Award Winning Show, BUTOH MEDEA Lands at Hollywood Fringe 2018!

Adapting his production from Euripides' Medea and Greek Mythology, and using Japanese Butoh Dance and original texts, Yokko brings the spirit of Medea to life. This fusion of Eastern dance and Western drama invites the audience inside Medea's dark and desperate struggle. Trapped in the underworld, she is forever cursed to relive her tragic journey through love, hate, and ultimate loss. Butoh Medea runs June 8- 20, at Stephanie Feury Studio Theatre - 5636 Melrose Ave, Los Angeles, CA.

Butoh Medea received four awards at United Solo 2014: Best One-Woman Show, Best Lighting Design, Best Costume Design and Best Choreography. It was the official selection of United Solo Europe in Warsaw, Poland in 2015. Nominated The Asian Arts Award at Edinburgh Festival Fringe 2015, and received Best Physical Theatre at United Solo 2015. It has been touring nationally and internationally. Writer: Sean Michael Welch. Director: Brian Rhinehart. Co-Choreographer: Jordan Rosin. Costume Design: Deepsikha Chatterjee. Lighting Design: Derek Van Heel.

PERFORMANCES

Friday June 8th @ 6pm PWYC (Suggested $15)
Thursday June 14th @ 3pm $12

Friday June 15th @9pm $15

Wednesday June 20th @10pm $15

TICKETS: http://www.hollywoodfringe.org/projects/5296

*ADMISSION 16+

ABOUT THE PRODUCTION TEAM

Yokko (Performer, Choreographer, Adapter) is an actor, a movement & Butoh Artist, solo Performer from Japan. She has acted in, devised and choreographed a variety of local and international shows, having won several awards, including "Best One-Woman Show" for Butoh Medea (United Solo 2014 at Theatre Row). Butoh Medea was selected to perform in Warsaw, Poland. (United Solo Europe 2015, Teatre Syrena), toured Edinburgh Festival Fringe 2015, nominated The Asian Arts Award. Other Theatre credits include: Hide Your Fires (NU Works 2017 with Pan Asian Rep, United Solo 2017: Theatre Row), BALDY (CRS, United Solo 2013, HFF 2013, Fringe NYC 2012), ISIS Variation (Fringe NYC 2014), FACET (Irondale Center, Wave Rising Series, HFF 2013), Butoh Electra (Irondale Center, Fringe NYC 2011). Yokko also acted in several of local and international films, one of which is the Student Academy Winner film, Cloud-Kumo (2016).She is the associate artistic director of The Ume Group as well as the artistic director of Ren Gyo Soh in NYC. Winner of Best Physical Theatre, Best Choreography (Butoh Medea at United Solo 2015, 2014), Best Physical Theatre, Best Sound Design(Hide Your Fires at United Solo 2017). B.A in Theatre (UAlbany), MFA in Acting (The Actors Studio). www.yokko-online.com

Brian Rhinehart (Director) is an actor, director, professor and Fulbright scholar. An expert in devised theatre and collaborative playmaking, he has worked as a freelance theatre director in Florida and New York for the last seventeen years. He holds an M.F.A. in Directing from The Actors Studio Drama School, and a Ph.D. in English from the University of Florida. He is a Member of AEA and SDC.

Sean Michael Welch (Writer, Adapter) was awarded the 1999 Kennedy Center / American College Theatre Festival John Cauble Short Play Award for Earl the Vampire, and won the 2000 KC/ACTF Region III Ten-Minute Play Competition for Charleston's Finger. His novel 1897: Aliens! Vampires! Zombies! was released in October 2015.