Mormon Playgirl premiering at Fringe Festival June 2019
Why would I ever make a one-woman show? It sounds impossible, it feels daunting, and the overexposure. The truth is after having Chloé I was supporting my boyfriend and his dream to work on a film in Europe. I was watching Oprah masters because in life I’m always watching or listening to Oprah. It was Whoopi Goldberg piece. She spoke about the hard time she was having breaking through. Then she put up a one-woman show, it got her good reviews and launched her on her way. I got chills. As I was nursing my 3-month-old in the living room of my boyfriend’s parents house in Switzerland. I determined that was it that was the move I would make one when I got home to Hollywood.
Cut to my girlfriend who is a comic and storyteller who I reach out to for guidance in these worlds. She mentions the Fringe Festival and we make a pack do it. She is recently broken up and trying to survive with 3 minimum wage jobs. So she dropped out. It was just me. What was my story? How would I tell it?
Zara Burdett is a recent transplant from London and a film director. She was like yea lets write it together that lasted about a week. Then I reached out to one woman show director who teaches at USC. She signed up and then after two weeks she felt she had spread herself too thin. She then recommended a dramaturgy Ty Pickett. We had a call I told him stories that I thought should be in the play he listened and then wrote me back the most interesting ones. Then we found the throughline of my mother. Of course everyone and their mommy and daddy issues. Well yep, I do over her major mean mommy issues. Yearssss of therapy. Lots of thoughts on the matter. We then met in person made the structure and I set up writing the monologues. Then after feeling, I need to see am I self-obsessed actress or is this a story that people would like and relate too.
I booked a theatre and held a workshop reading. It felt amazing and the feedback was great. I added a new character, Courtney Love. The reality of the one-woman show is hitting me. It still is hitting me. I MAY GET IN TROUBLE. With my family but I doubt because the artistic impression is important and it all happened so long ago I feel that my family will be fine.. As far as Harvey I think he has bigger problems like going to Jail more than defending himself against my account of my experience of knowing him.
Contravorsory is not something I shy away from so. Bring it.
Telling my story and disappearing into my characters is my goal.
Iv already have been bookmarked as a show to see by thetvolution.com
MORMON PLAYGIRL
Moving from Scientology to Mormonism we have C.C. Sheffield’s one-woman show that promises to take us along from a “Mormon teen in AZ, to…all the little triumphs that make a Mormon Playgirl.” How you can be a “playgirl” with no tattoos, no coffee and only one piercing per ear and nowhere else will have to be explained to me. Zara Burdett directs.
Venue: The Complex Hollywood (OMR Theatre )
6468 Santa Monica Blvd
Tickets: http://hff19.org/5768
Also, I had the opportunity to do a podcast