Asian-American Writer Debuts World Premiere of BREATHER at Hollywood Fringe

Taiwanese-American Writer Debuts BREATHER at HOLLYWOOD FRINGE FESTIVAL on June 8, 2017.

2017 HOLLYWOOD FRINGE Festival presents BREATHER by Marilyn Fu (The Sisterhood of Night) and directed by Keliher Walsh (Jerome Fellow, Susan Smith Blackburn nominee), starring Mariah Bonner (Social Network), Graham Sibley (Fear the Walking Dead), Jordan Bielsky, and Camille Mana (Jesse Eisenberg's Asuncion).

Marilyn Fu (Writer/Producer) is a writer based in LA who tells stories for film, digital, and theater. Her work has been honored with the William Goldman Screenwriting Fellowship and the Tribeca Film Festival's Creative Promise Award. In 2015, the film she wrote and co-produced, The Sisterhood of Night starring Kal Penn, was released by Freestyle Releasing. Her next screenplay is currently in development at Lionsgate. Marilyn is repped by CAA and Untitled Entertainment.

Keliher Walsh (Director) is a 2015-16 Jerome Fellow, Playwrights Center. Her work includes, Proof of Circling, Desire Line/Plymouth Rock, Idols of the Cave, Year of the Rabbit, Fifth World, and INDIGO. She is a member of Ensemble Studio Theater, in New York and Los Angeles. Year of the Rabbit, read at the Lark theater, received a production in 2012 at EST/LA and was nominated for the Susan Smith Blackburn prize. Idols of the Cave was presented at The Living Room, Blank Theater in 2015. INDIGO had a work shop at Playwright's Center, in 2016. Winner of Kentucky Women's Writers Conference 2011.

Mariah Bonner (Actress/Producer) is the founder of Blue Tiger Salons, inspired by the 18th century salons of Paris, and co founder of Blue Tiger Productions, a Los Angeles based theater Production Company. She was educated at the Cours Florent in Paris and The Guildhall School of Music & Drama in London. Acting credits include Scorpion (CBS), The Social Network (dir. David Fincher) & Universal Soldier: Day of Reckoning (dir. John Hyams).

Graham Sibley (Actor) is a member of EST/LA and is a founding member of IAMA Theatre Company. Recent TV includes: Fear The Walking Dead, How To Get Away With Murder, Aquarius, The Newsroom. Recent Film: Sully, Grow House, Threshold. Graham also has three feature films coming out this year: Better Off Zed, Poor Greg Drowning, The Passing Parade as well as Netflix's new anthology series Dark/Web.

Camille Mana (Actress) originated the title role in the world premiere of Asuncion written by and starring opposite Oscar-nominee Jesse Eisenberg and Justin Bartha. Film: Smart People with Dennis Quaid, Cake with Jennifer Aniston, College with Haley Bennett, Norman with Dan Byrd and Adam Goldberg, Speed-Dating starring Chris Elliott, and High School starring Adrien Brody and Colin Hanks. Theater: 4000 Miles, West Coast Premiere, American Conservatory Theater.; Sci-Fest; Naked TV, Naked Angels. TV: Series Regular on long-running syndicated sitcom One on One. Can currently be seen in This Isn't Working on Hulu.

Jordan Bielsky (Actor) stage credits include Cat on a Hot Tin Roof, The Survivor, and Danny and the Deep Blue Sea. TV/Film: Defiance, Intelligence (CBS), Santa Claws, and Dr. Rabbi Moishe Dovid Bernstein.

For tickets, visit www.hollywoodfringe.org/projects/4693, and for more information, go to BREATHER's Facebook page: www.facebook.com/breathertheplay.

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