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THIS SUMMER at The Hollywood Fringe!
Saturday June 8 2024, 8:00 PM
Friday June 14 2024, 8:00 PM
Saturday June 15 2024, 2:30 PM
Thursday June 20 2024, 8:30 PM
Saturday June 29 2024, 12:30 PM
Once upon a time…
The world was hoodwinked by a poor
illiterate woman named Mary Toft.
The year was 1726 and over the course of several months, Mary managed to fool the finest doctors, scientists, and nobles into believing she could give birth to rabbits.
Delivering on that promise, Mary performed
the mesmerizing spectacle 17 times over, securing her place in history as "The Rabbit Queen”. That is, until one fateful day when she was brought down by a single kernel of evidence.
The story of Mary’s viral hoax and subsequent cancellation is one that touches on themes of bodily autonomy, women’s reproductive freedom, gender and class roles, and the dangers of blindly trusting authority figures and the media.
WHO'S
WHO?
JOSHUA TOFT
husband, yogi, DIMWIT
NATHANIEL ST. ANDRE
Dr. Feel Good, Party Planner
DR. JOHN HOWARD
PRINCE FRED
PRINCE OF WALES, SPOILED BRAT
Man's Man, Man'S MIDWIFE
MARGARET TOFT
Inventor, sisteR, SpINSTER
ANN TOFT
MOTHER, MIDWIFE
MARY TOFT
barren wife, RABBIT QUEEN
ALEXA
ROYAL Servant
DR. CYRICUS AHLERS
MAn of science
CREATIVES
JAIME LYN BEATTY
JAIME LYN BEATTY is a versatile performer, writer and producer. A founding member of Team Starkid and an associate artist with Rogue Artists Ensemble.
She has performed Off-Broadway and served as writer/host for Google. Favorite credits include Netflix, Nickelodeon, The Superbowl The Getty Villa & The New York Fringe Festival.
At present, she has originated 15 roles in chart topping new musicals, most recent of which resulted in the Broadway World Award for “Best Featured Actress in A Musical". In addition to her BFA from the University of Michigan, she has trained at The Groundlings, UCB, & The Second City.
ILANA GORDON
ILANA GORDON is a writer, producer, and stand up comic originally from Connecticut. She has lived in Boston, Chicago, and Los Angeles, and currently resides in a state of continuous panic. Ilana is a former Associate Producer for E! News’ morning talk show, Daily Pop, and has contributed writing to sites like Input Mag, Entertainment Weekly, Jezebel, The A.V. Club, The Daily Dot, and dot.LA. She is a regular contributor to humor sites like McSweeney’s Internet Tendency, The American Bystander, and Reductress, and in 2018, she served as a guest writer for NPR's comedy game show, "Wait, Wait...Don't Tell Me!"
A graduate of The Second City Conservatory, The Second City Music Conservatory, and the iO Training Center, Ilana performed sketch comedy with The Second City BenchCo, and was a longtime performer and coach of Harold teams at iO Chicago. After transitioning to stand up in 2015, Ilana has performed in clubs, bars, and festivals across the country, and internationally at the 2017 Edinburgh Fringe Festival.
lAURA WATKINS
LAURA CHRISTINE WATKINS
(music + lyrics) is a Los Angeles based Composer/Lyricist. Her Musical Theater credits include music/lyrics for Comic-Con the Musical (ASCAP/Dreamworks workshop 2016, Hollywood Fringe Festival 2017, apples and oranges Arts THEater accelerator 2018), Glass Ceilings which workshopped at both SAG, and The Rockwell Table and stage after winning 3rd place in the Search for New Musicals.
Her current projects include “The Art Forger” based on the NYT Bestselling Novel and “The Rabbit Queen”. Her numerous film and TV credits include American Reunion (Universal Pictures), The Longest Ride (Fox Pictures), the Emmy winning series The Newsroom (HBO) along with other network television shows including: Barely Human, Access Hollywood, Blue Mountain State, Melrose Place, and many more. Laura also composed the music and lyrics for The Snow Queen Musical App, (app store).
