Date and Time
Sun, November 5, 2023
@ 4:40pm
Location
Regal LA Live: Theater 13
Series
Program 7: Funny Threads
Magazine quizzes, summer camp crushes, and awkward funerals fill the world of 15-year-old besties Shawna and Juno who spend one last day at the beach as they await the uncertain future of an in-person sophomore year. “Do you really think I’m a cauliflower?”
Genre: Comedy
Running Time: 12 min
Directed by: Eliza Bent
About the Director(s)
The love-grandchild of Lily Tomlin, Pee Wee Herman, and Mr. Peanut, Eliza Bent is a playwright and performer who creates Bentertainments: stories and performance texts that are left of center and chalk full of puns. Hailed in Time Out New York as "This generation's answer to Amy Sederis" Bent's shows include solo-ish works ("Karen", "IToilet Fire and Aloha", "Aloha, or When I Was Queen"), plays ("Indeed, friend!", "On a Clear Day I Can See to Elba", "The Hotel Colors"), adaptations ("The Beyonce", "She of the Voice"), and hybrid affairs ("Real Talk / Kip Talk, Blue Wizard / Black Wizard, Pen Pals Meet"). Bent’s shows have been developed, workshopped, and produced at the Abrons Arts Center, JACK, the New Ohio, the Atlantic Theatre, the Bushwick Starr and New York Theatre Workshop’s Next Door Series. Residencies with SPACE on Ryder Farm, New Georges, Target Margin Institute Fellow, MacDowell Colony Fellow, Casa Zia Lina, and Pilot Balloon. As an actor Bent has performed in pint-sized New York theatres, regionally in Omaha and Louisville, and toured internationally. Bent has a BA in philosophy and an MFA in playwriting from Brooklyn College where she teaches creative writing. Bent also speaks Italian. Ciao for now.
Film Info
| Trailer: | N/A |
| Release Year: | 2023 |
| Country: | United States |
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