The Los Angeles Women's Theatre Festival
is proud to present
BRAVA!
"A Day of Theatre"
Sunday, April 23, 2017
The Macha Theatre
1107 N Kings Rd.
West Hollywood, CA 90069
The Los Angeles Women's Theatre Festival (LAWTF) marks 24 years of producing well over 500 extraordinary multicultural and multidisciplinary solo performers from around the globe.
Entertainment for the day of
Sunday, April 23th, 2017, 4:30pm
will include:
Missy Hairston
"Awkwardly Fabulous"
Missy Hairston plays 30 characters in this solo comedy and we follow her
progress as she grows up in the South, migrates to New York where she finds
remarkable success on the comedy club circuit, then pursues a career in
Hollywood, where she finds that she is starting over. With plenty on the ball,
she gets agents, film and television roles, and yet....She is not denied a
personal life.
Hairston attracts
suitors with her effervescent personality, plus she's funny (she's a
professional comedian, after all). And yet....
she, at different points
in her life, could be described as a woman of majestic proportions. It
sometimes impacts her love life, and also her professional life.
No matter how fabulous
Hairston is, it has an effect on the roles she can book. So, she strategizes
on how to change her shape: Natural diet, exercise, a personal
trainer. She eventually finds the inspiration to own her awkwardly
fabulous self from another source.
Ms. Hairston comments on
her stage persona, "The rest of the world (those in her
life/situations) is trying to make her who they think she should be - she
starts out with full confidence and others start to plant the seeds of doubt
that prompt all the shenanigans that ensue and how she tries to change herself
."
"Awkwardly
Fabulous" will
resonate especially with women who have had to confront body issues and issues
of esteem regarding their love and work lives (which is to say, lots of women).
Plenty of men will identify with it, too. It is also very funny. Ms.
Hairston received her BFA at West Virginia University and subsequently worked
at the Williamstown Theater Festival and New York comedy clubs before
making her way to Hollywood, where she's appeared in series including "Murder
in the First", "Shameless" and in feature
films including "The Preening Swan" and "The
Dog Who Saved Summer".
To see Missy
Hairston's revealing full show and other dynamic solo shows, please
join us for the 2nd Annual Brava "A Day of Theatre"
to be held at the Macha Theatre in West Hollywood.
For tickets and any additional information,
please call LAWTF at (818) 760-0408, visit our website at www.lawtf.org or to purchase tickets,
click here.
