VIDEO: Ladies of TV and Broadway Respond to DJ Lubel with 'The REAL Women of LA' Parody

By: Mar. 15, 2013
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Happy Panda Productions presents the debut of their latest comic video sensation, "The REAL Women of LA". Intended as a parody response to comic DJ Lubel's viral music video "The Women of LA", this hilarious short features appearances by actresses from TV, Film & Broadway. Check it out below!

"If DJ Lubel's 'Women of LA' showed us the vacuous, superficial, uptight, gold-digging, status-climbing side of women of LA, we wanted to show the hilarious, fun, smart and sexy side of the REAL Women of LA who love to get it the f*** on and laugh at ourselves in the process," explains Deborah S. Craig (CW's "Hart of Dixie"), who served as Creator and Executive Producer of the piece.

"We were so excited to bring together some of the coolest chicks we know in LA to make this video," adds co-producer Milena Govich ("Rescue Me", "Law & Order"). "Because the truth is, most of us really don't take ourselves that seriously and relished the opportunity to show the fun and sexy sides of our personalities."

Along with Craig and Govich, the video features an impressive roster of talented ladies, including Broadway's Lisa Datz, Jacqui Polk, Haviland Stillwell and Jessica-Snow Wilson. Also lending their talents to the project were composer George Shaw ("Agents of Secret Stuff") and editor Mark Cope (writer/creator of "Most Popular Girls in School").

"The REAL Women of LA" is now available for viewing on Youtube or on the Happy Panda website (www.HappyPandaProductions.com).

Deborah S. Craig (CEO Happy Panda Productions/Creator/Executive Producer/Performer) is a writer, producer, director and award winning actress. Her work has been featured on the homepage of Funnyordie.com where she is IMMORTAL, on HuffPo, Buzzfeed.com, TheBlush.com, ChannelAPA.com , IamKoream.com and Autostraddle.com. She has guest offended for YOMYOMF.COM and written for Comediva.com where she is a channel partner. As an actress, Ms. Craig is best known for originating the role of Marcy Park on Broadway in the Tony Award-winning musical The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee and for playing Shelley Ng on the CW's "Hart of Dixie" . For more information, visit www.deborahscraig.com, www.youtube.com/friendswithpandas and twitter.com/DeborahSCraig.

Milena Govich has appeared on Broadway in "Cabaret" at Studio 54 (playing "Lulu", and eventually taking over the lead role of "Sally Bowles"), "The Boys from Syracuse" and "Good Vibrations". On TV, Milena is perhaps best known as Nina Cassady, the first and only female detective on "Law & Order". She also had a starring role on NBC's legal drama "Conviction", as well as memorable recurring roles on "Rescue Me" (FX), "K-ville" (FOX), and most recently "The Defenders" (CBS), "Body of Proof" (ABC), and "Make It or Break It" (ABCFamily). Milena can also be seen in the romantic comedy film, "A Novel Romance", and she'll appear in two upcoming films, "Lucky N#mber" and "Pass the Light". For updates, follow @milenagovich.



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