This Apocalyptic Solo Comedy MACBETH Is Blowing Up The Hollywood Fringe!

The 55-minute debut solo show of LA-based comedian Jill Young is taking the Hollywood theatre scene by storm. Entitled Little Stars Youth Theatre presents: MACBETH (a solo show), this metatheatrical marriage of slapstick comedy and queer existential angst premieres this June at the Broadwater Studio Stage.

The talented kids of Little Stars Youth Theatre have been working hard to bring you their production of Macbeth. But when an emergency broadcast announces the incoming end of the world, the young cast evacuates, leaving only their director behind. The show must go on...right?

This comedic solo piece explores the paradox of live performance in a seemingly-doomed world. As Jill attempts to save the show, it devolves into an anxiety spiral on death and identity. (Contains profanity, mature themes.)

WHEN: Fri 6/2 @ 8pm, Sat 6/10 @ 7:30pm, Sat 6/17 @ 2pm, Tues 6/20 @ 11pm, Thurs 6/22 @ 5pm

WHERE: Studio Theatre @ The Broadwater, 1078 Lillian Way

TICKETS: $12, currently on sale at https://www.hollywoodfringe.org/projects/9582?tab=tickets

Writer and performer Jill Young (they/she) has a certificate in Creative Writing and a BFA in Acting from UT Austin. She has refined her comedic voice by studying sketch, improv, and clown at The Second City and The Idiot Workshop. You can catch Jill regularly performing at comedy shows throughout LA. Jill is also a filmmaker, and co-wrote and starred in the feature Dear Leo (2020), which premiered at the Inside Out: Toronto LGBTQ+ Film Festival.

Director Calliope Weisman (she/her) is a theatre director, producer, and teaching artist in Los Angeles. She earned a BA in Theatre from SDSU with an emphasis in stage management and youth theatre. After teaching at Will Geer's Theatricum Botanicum, she is now the Assoc. Director of Education with the Santa Clarita Shakespeare Festival. She has previously directed "PUFFS" and "Too Much Light..." at the MAIN Theater in Newhall, and occasionally moonlights as a script supervisor on indie film sets.

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