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Happy Girl: Comedy · Ages 13+ · Young Adult · 50 mins · Hollywood Fringe Festival 2022 · HFF22 show poster

"Happy Girl": Comedy · Ages 13+ · Young Adult · 50 mins · Hollywood Fringe Festival 2022 · HFF22 at Studio/Stage

Dates: (6/4/2022 - 6/22/2022 )

Theatre:

Studio/Stage

Unicorn Productions

520 N. Western Ave, Los Angeles, CA 90004
Melrose Hill, near 101-S Exit-6B,CA 90004

Phone: (323) 591-4849

Tickets: $10.00

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It is one wild ride!Sorry but the hostess prefers to not reveal the plot, they feel would be more fun is better if you just show up. [Here is their tag line]: "Feminists are wrong. Women are not equal to Men. They are better!" Cara and Ashley are fantastic in the play. Cara Schell Sandefur as Susie, currently a student at the LA City College Acting Academy. Ashley McQueston as Frannie, currently attending the theatre program at Los Angeles City college and will be graduating in December.

Part of the Hollywood Fringe Festival 2022, #hff22.

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Cast and Creative team for "Happy Girl": Comedy · Ages 13+ · Young Adult · 50 mins · Hollywood Fringe Festival 2022 · HFF22 at Studio/Stage

Cast

Darbianna Dinsmore

Grace & Others
Darbianna Dinsmore was born in Texas and graduated from the University of Mississippi with a BFA in acting. She played many notable roles (predominantly period pieces) such as Elvira in Blithe Spirit, and Isabella in The Tooth Puller. She specialized in Commedia dell’arte in both the US and Siena, Italy at Le Piccolo Theatre de Sienna. In Los Angeles she has been in numerous Shakespeare shows produced by Pints & Players where she played Juliet, Claudio, and Lady MacDuff. Her other Hollywood Fringe Festival experience includes stage managing/light designing the award-winning show Ain’t That America. She is currently performing as the star of the award-winning one-woman show She Stoops to Scandal 2021-2022.


Creative Team

Chambers Stevens

Playwright
Chambers Stevens (Actor/Playwright/Director) has a massive Prince Record Collection. He has been clogging since before he can walk and is still as fast as the wind. He and his son, Twain have played in almost 200 different parks in Los Angeles County. He has read every novel Mark Twain ever published. He still gets a tingling feeling every morning when he rolls over and looks at his wife. Oh and this year he has 6 plays opening in the Hollywood Fringe. Chambers Stevens has ten books in print. Besides being a successful author he is one of LA’s top acting coaches. Actors he has coached have appeared on every network as well as countless films and theatre productions. Chambers is a graduate of The Conservatory of Theater Arts at Webster University & the founder of The Nashville Shakespeare Festival now in its 30th year. As a television actor, Chambers starred in The Steve Spots, which received six Emmys and a George Peabody Award, Funnybones, which received an Emmy for “Outstanding Children’s Program”, and Geoscout, for which he received a personal Emmy nomination as “Outstanding Actor in a Children’s Series.” As a theater actor, Chambers has performed in over a hundred theater productions. He’s the recipient of the Geoffrey Award for his portrayal of Drew in Eastern Standard. He also received the prestigious Backstage Garland Award for his one-man show Desperate for Magic. As a playwright, he has won both the Ingram Fellowship and the Tennessee Arts Commission Individual Artist Award. His play Biff and Charlie is published by Samuel French. Mother of Pearl is published by Dramatic Publishing and Desperate for Magic is published by Elderidge Publishing. Chambers latest play Twain and Shaw Do Lunch received its world premiere at the prestigious New Theatre in Miami. Chambers is married to film and television producer Betsy Sullenger. They have a 15-year-old son, Twain.


Megan Ford-Miller

Director/Production Designer
Megan Ford-Miller is a Director/Producer for both live theatre and film based in Los Angeles. Megan started attending a performing arts school in the 3rd grade and she has been in dozens of theater productions in her formative years. As an adult she focused on mixed media and photography and also used an art therapy career for children on the Autism Spectrum as a creative outlet. When her son, Reid Miller decided he wanted to get serious about his acting career she focused her energy on helping him. By supporting Reid, she circled back to the entertainment industry in which she started. Megan is involved in several theater productions every year; she also continues her work within the Autism community working with kids on the Spectrum here in Los Angeles. Megan is currently directing SHE STOOPS TO SCANDAL which premiered at the Hollywood Fringe in 2021 and continues its run in this year’s 2022 Fringe. SSTS is a regency period one woman show written by Chambers Stevens and starring Darbianna Dinsmore. She is also co-producing THE TOUGHEST MAN in CHICAGO alongside veteran Fringer Matthew Robinson written/performed by Mitchell Bisschop. She recently Produced and directed actor/writer George Steeves’s show LOVE AND SEX ON THE SPECTRUM at Hollywood Fringe 2021, the show also just completed its Off Broadway run at Frigid Festival 2022 in NYC and in CA. earning The Best of Solofest 2022 and now will head to London, and then the 2022 Edinburgh Fringe Festival. Other notable credits are HOLLYWOODN’T the Hollywood casting couch scandals, and writer/comedian Stacy Dymalski’s one woman show A BIT MUCH both winning producer Encore Awards.


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