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 Thank you for helping us bring Live Theatre back to LA!

We're working on honoring the story of lost soldiers and their families by bringing JUNK GIRLS to the stage this August for the Hollywood Fringe Festival! 

Bring is the largest Performing Arts Festival in Los Angeles.

We need your help!

Let's set the scene, it's January, 2007. Three young women-- a Jewish punk-rock connoisseur from Michigan, an African-American combat photojournalist from Brooklyn, and a US Army casualty notification officer from Illinois-- become stranded by a snowstorm in small-town Minnesota at the beginning of the bloodiest year of the war in Iraq. JUNK GIRLS is about the horrors of war, the terrible beauty of love and the loneliness of being lost in America. It's a play about how memories mix with longing and make the future a terrible place to die: it's about life, it's about death, it's about listening to The Misfits while making TV dinners, it's about Nat King Cole songs in dive bars and photos taken on an Army base, it's about speeches by President Bush, children without mothers, dancing in airport bars and flag-draped caskets coming home, it's about hope and dreams without waking, and about finding hope in the ashes of America, and it's also a comedy about getting the worst news of your life.

Come see us at the Zephyr on Melrose - August 5th, 7th, 14th, 18th, 26th, & 28th

OR 

Livestreaming on TV from the Comfort of your own home!

Run Time - 70 min

Tickets can be purchased at https://www.hollywoodfringe.org/projects/7090

Follow us on Instagram @LosFelizTheatreCo to keep up-to-date on the show! 

The Los Feliz Theatre Company started out as a group of friends in Los Feliz, Los Angeles getting together over Zoom every week to read plays and screenplays to survive and have a creative outlet throughout the COVID-19 Pandemic.  From these quarantine readings we found  JUNK GIRLS by Mark Mason and are raising funds to help bring live theatre and this poignant story back to the stage  at the 2021 Hollywood Fringe Festival for its West Coast Premiere. 

Check us out at www.losfeliztheatreco.com!

The Hollywood Fringe Festival is an annual, open-access, community-derived event celebrating freedom of expression and collaboration in the performing arts community. Each June during the Hollywood Fringe, the arts infiltrate the Hollywood neighborhood: fully equipped theaters, parks, clubs, churches, restaurants and other unexpected places host hundreds of productions by local, national, and international arts companies and independent performers.

Participation in the Hollywood Fringe is completely open and uncensored. This free-for-all approach underlines the festival’s mission to be a platform for artists without the barrier of a curative body. By opening the gates to anyone with a vision, the festival is able to exhibit the most diverse and cutting-edge points-of-view the world has to offer. Additionally, by creating an environment where artists must self-produce their work, the Fringe motivates its participants to cultivate a spirit of entrepreneurialism in the arts.

The Hollywood Fringe Festival is a non-profit company. The festival gives 100% of box office revenue back to participating artists and venues—that’s over 3.4 million dollars since the inaugural festival in 2010. Donations are essential for both day-to-day festival costs as well as the growth of festival programs and resources. To help sustain Hollywood Fringe, you can donate here.

Fringe Festivals exist throughout the world as havens for underground and emerging arts scenes. The Fringe concept was incubated in Edinburgh, Scotland. In 1947, eight performance groups appeared uninvited on the “fringes” of the exclusive Edinburgh International Festival. The Edinburgh Festival Fringe has since grown into the largest arts festival in the world with hundreds of artists, thousands of performances, and millions of patrons every summer. It annually grosses over $100 million for the local economy and remains the biggest tourist draw in the UK.

Fringe Festivals have since sprung up in dozens of cities across the world.

Most Fringe Festivals are open and unjuried preferring lotteries, first-come-first-served, and find-your-own-venue systems to a formal selection process. This open means of programming fosters the work of both the well-established and the obscure; everyone has the opportunity to participate. Fringe Festivals nourish young visionaries by providing networking opportunities and production experience. They also provide large economic and cultural boosts for their hosting communities.

Brie Carter - Producer/ Actor

Brie Carter was born in Austin, Texas, and is of Japanese, Caucasian, and African American descent. She grew up in Dallas, Texas where she started acting at the age of four doing numerous commercials and print work. Since graduating from the University of Southern California in LA with a degree in Cinema-Television, she has been pursuing a career in acting. She has appeared in independent films such as "Dog Park" and "Game On" and on shows such as Showtime's "Shameless", Hulu's "Marvel's Runaways", FX's "American Horror Story: 1984", Hulu's "Little Fires Everywhere", and most recently Spectrum’s “L.A.’s Finest.” She’s currently working on producing her first production, JUNK GIRLS, for the stage.


Alexandra Leigh - Director

Alexandra Leigh has spent the last 8 years in Los Angeles, learning the subtle art of rolling through stop signs and walking three dogs simultaneously. She has also worked as an actor, producer, writer, and bartender. Fresh out of highschool Alexandra joined the Marine Corps where she spent four years in the most comfortable uniform of her life and learned everything from how to project her voice to shooting all manner of firearms. Her experience on stage includes being a member of Theatricum Botanicum and Long Beach Shakespeare company where she performed in a variety of classical theatre. In addition to her acting she is also an award winning writer, with degrees in English and Theatre from USC. She will be continuing her education in the fall at USC as one of twenty five selected for the class of 2023 Peter Stark Producing Program. Alexandra makes her stage directing debut with Junk Girls. 

Mark Mason - Playwright

Mark Mason is a former newspaper columnist who graduated from The Theatre School at DePaul University and is the Artistic Director of the Joliet Drama Guild. A playwright, director and photographer, Mark has worked in theatre for thirteen years and has had productions of his work in Chicago, Los Angeles and his hometown of Joliet, Illinois. Mark most recently wrote the screenplay for the horror movie TERRIFYING TALES OF THE SPANISH LADY, an anthology film of stories taking place during the 1918 influenza pandemic, which received its world premiere at Hollywood Blvd Cinema in Woodridge, Illinois in June 2021. He is proud to be working with this talented group of artists and thanks you all for supporting live theatre. 

We have a detailed budget and plan to breath life into this show. We are seeking $5,000 to help cover some production costs such as the venue, rehearsal space, military uniforms, and props. In truth though, producing the show will cost more.

We are self produced and self financed at the moment, paying our of our own coffers which, with the added challenge of the COVID-19 landscape, has been particularly difficult. The arts and performing arts have been some of the hardest hit during the coronavirus pandemic. However, we believe, that like a Phoenix, we shall rise from the ashes to bring JUNK GIRLS to the stage.

*Please note that we are fiscally sponsored by Fractured Atlas, a 501(c)(3), and all donations received through them are tax deductible. A tax deductible receipt will be provided to all donors.
*Also! FUN FACT. For the 2021 tax year, people who take the standard deduction can deduction up to $300 of cash (or card) donations to charity. :)

GOALS AFTER FRINGE

If we are fortunate enough to reach our budget and exceed it our plans are to take Junk Girls to the Edinburgh Fringe Festival, which is the largest arts festival in the world.