Serial Killers

My first show in LA was a success! At least as far as the experience. We got "voted off", unfortunately, but that didn't make it any less awesome. So what exactly is Serial Killers? Serial Killers is an ongoing short play contest produced by the LA theatre company Sacred Fools. Writers submit Episode 1 of their play and, if it gets into the contest, it gets performed at Sacred Fools on a Saturday night at 11pm with 4 other short plays. At the end of the night, the audience chooses the plays the want to see continued. The writers of those plays then write Episode 2 which gets performed the next Saturday. If you don't get chosen, ie. you get "voted off", you go back to your dull life away from the theatre, but you do have more time for hiking! So, despite having an excellent script created by Shawn Northrip, a great director and an awesome cast, we didn't make it into the next week. It was, however, unanimously decided by those outside of our play that we were up agains a very very difficult night of other plays. Within our night, there was
- a Children of the Corn-esque horror/thriller in which the children take over and begin killing all the adults
- a sci-fi suspense in which all the parents have been replaced by aliens but only one child has realized it
- a hilarious spoof of a day time soap both on screen and behind the scenes (my favorite)
- a toker movie about the first 2 Latino astronauts in space (close second favorite)
and finally...
- Ours! The Story of My First Baby, a coming of age story about a group of girls in Massachusetts considered to be a coven by their principal.

The best news about Serial Killers is that it's a group of great people. I made another great friend in Beth who played one of the girls in the play to my school nurse. And, of course, I got to work with Shawn again, and go to Scoops! I'm telling you, Scoops has the, or at least some of the, best ice cream in LA. I had the Dark Chocolate Guinness after we teched, but the Brown Bread and the Mascarpone were also excellent, though my favorite is still the very first one I tried - Lavender Berry Honey. Angel breath frozen in a cup. Yum.

xox Jewel