SEVEN DECEMBERS Makes Debut at the Hollywood Fringe Festival This June
Nothing Important Productions takes to the Hollywood Fringe Festival with its original play, Seven Decembers. First presented to sold-out audiences as a workshop at LACC's Theatre Academy, Seven Decembers makes its official debut this June.
Seven Decembers is a dark comedy that follows Johnny May Leahy (played by Bridgit King) through one night, stuck in her mother's tacky condo with her estranged and dysfunctional family. It has been seven years since her brother Michael went missing. The only hope that he may still be alive comes from mysterious phone calls on his birthday each year. And so, every December, the Leahy family gathers and waits; waits to see if this will be the year they hear Michael's voice on the other end of the phone.
Seven Decembers tackles the complexity of grief through dark humor, raw emotion, and human honesty revealed. The play explores how lack of closure slowly erodes the individual, and the bonds of a family.
Cousins Annamarie Davidson and Bridgit King founded Nothing Important Productions in 2015. After they both lost a parent in the same year, they decided to give their grief a voice and a purpose through their creative works.
Annamarie Davidson got her start writing her school play in the fifth grade, a Colonial Williamsburg murder mystery in which she also starred. After graduating high school at sixteen, she attended Cuesta College in San Luis Obispo, California, performing in Joe Masteroff's Cabaret and starring in Steven Dietz's God's Country. After studying avant-garde theatre and journalism at Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand, she moved to Los Angeles. Acting led her to stand-up comedy, where she rediscovered her love of writing. She has been published in The Jersey Devil Press and Bright Lite Magazine, and is writing her debut sci-fi fantasy novel, Strings.
Bridgit King is an alumna of the Los Angeles City College Theatre Academy. She has appeared as Beverly in The Shadow Box, O'Brien in George Orwell's 1984, Jolene Palmer in Self Defense, and as part of the ensemble cast of The Untitled Warhol Project; winner of Best Devised Work at the Kennedy Center American College Theatre Festival. Bridgit was nominated for an Irene Ryan Award for her role as Brianna in I Want to be a Junkie When I Grow Up, a play that she co-wrote. She made her directing debut with the one act play, Leon and Joey, which was presented at the Hollywood Fringe Festival in 2014. Bridgit was Assistant Director of a production of Our Lady of 121st Street that went on to win several awards at the KCACTF in 2015.
WHEN
June 5th, 2016 -- June 26th, 2016
PERFORMANCES
| Sunday, June 5th at 8 p.m.| Friday, June 10th at 10 p.m. | Saturday, June 11th at 4 p.m.
| Sunday, June 12th at 12 p.m. | Saturday, June 25th at 8 p.m. | Sunday, June 26th at 4 p.m.|
WHERE
The Lounge Theatre | 6201 Santa Monica Blvd | Los Angeles, CA 90038
For updates, information, and to purchase tickets, please visit www.sevendecembers.com or www.hollywoodfringe.org
|Pay-What-You-Can Preview Show |Sunday, June 5th at 8 p.m. | All Other Shows $15 |
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The Most Happy Fella North Coast Repertory Theatre (6/03-6/28) |
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A Haunting Revue II Impro Theatre (6/06-6/26) |
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Born This Cabaret Renberg Theatre (6/24-6/24) |
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Bus People – A Hilarious & Optimistic Take on L.A. Public Transit The Actors Company (6/06-6/28) |
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MISS MAGNOLIA BEAUMONT GOES TO PROVINCETOWN Los Angeles LGBT Center’s Davidson/Valentini Theatre (6/17-6/28) |
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Mike Blaha: Pivotal Nomad Broadwater Studio (6/07-6/24) |
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My Life is a Sonnet Broadwater Studio (6/07-6/27) |
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STRAITJACKET SIRENS The Three Clubs (6/01-6/30) |
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Storytellers Theater: PINOCCHIO @ Sac Fine Arts Sacramento Fine Arts Center (6/26-6/26) |
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The Show Has Been Cancelled (Due to the End of The World) Broadwater Second Stage (6/16-6/27) |