HELLA FRESH FISH TEN-MINUTE PLAY FESTIVAL Kicks off

B. Someday Productions, resident theatre company of New Kensington, and Hella Fresh, the New Theatre Company of West Kensington, team together to bring 20 new 10-minute plays, HELLA FRESH FISH 3.0 TEN MINUTE PLAY FESTIVAL brings 18 different playwrights, 30 actors, 13 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. And Saturday, October 8 at 2:00pm at Papermill Theater. Tickets are $20 for a single show; $25 for both shows on Saturday or Sunday. The entire Hella Fresh Fish Festival runs October 5-23, 2011. See dates and times below.

The 10-minute plays for HELLA FRESH FISH were culled from nearly 500 submissions from around the world. Directors for HELLA FRESH FISH include Stan Heleva, B. Someday Producing Artistic Director and has written hundreds of poems, dozens of popular songs and several plays; Michelle Pauls, Managing Artistic Director of B. Someday and developed their Barrymore Award-winning outreach program, Of Mythic Proportions; Steven Wright, the voice of Philadelphia in the radio ads XOXO PHILLY and performs in 1812 Productions' "This is the Week That Is;" Madi Distefano, an 8-time Barrymore nominee in 5 categories including directing, and won the Best Actress Barrymore award in 2005. Madi won a Fringe First and Best Solo Show in the Edinburgh Festival Fringe in 2007. She is Co-Artistic Director of Brat Productions which will produce her new play MEANWHILE... at the Ruba Ballroom in October/November.; John Rosenberg runs Hella Fresh Theater Company.

Some of the playwrights represented in Hella Fresh Fish are: Kristen Scatton and Seth Simons from Philadelphia and Miyoko Conley from New York, among others.

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 @ 4:00pm
Wednesday, Oct 19 @ 7:00pm
Thursday, Oct 20 @ 7:00pm
Friday, Oct 21 @ 8:00pm
Saturday, Oct 22 @ 8:00pm
Sunday, Oct 23 @ 4:00pm

Show dates and times for Hella Fresh Fish at Papermill Theater:
Saturday, Oct 8 @ 2:00pm - PRESS OPENING
Sunday, Oct 9 @ 2:00pm
Saturday, Oct 15 @ 2:00pm
Sunday, Oct 16 @ 2:00pm
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:
215-427-9255
info@bsomeday.org
www.walkingfishtheatre.com

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