LIMITED ENGAGEMENT (OCT ONLY): Sweethart

Written By Michael Workman

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LIMITED ENGAGEMENT (OCT ONLY)

Description
Dawn (25, dirty little imp, roaring hair) has troublesome sex with her lover and childhood friend Mike (25, dark fur, trans). They tumble in and out of dissonance by playing a game from their childhood. Runtime: 7 minutes, 22 seconds.

Director Statement
“AN ENTIRE ROOM IS OPENED BY PARTICULAR FEELINGS THAT SAY YOU’RE ON THE EDGE OF THE SPACE.” – Eileen Myles

Director Biography - Charlie Stuip
Charlie Stuip is a writer, video artist and co-founder of HIGHBALL MEDIA. She studied writing at Oakland School for the Arts where she wrote her first novella, Everyone’s Itching for a Good Drive. Currently, she’s finishing a bachelors in screenwriting at UCLA. She is former staff writer and section editor for FEM magazine, and has written radio pieces for NPR’s All Things Considered–which won her a Gracie Award for Women in Media. She worked as a copywriter for the PEER Lab out of UCLA’s Herb Alpert School of Music. Her plays have been produced by HIGHBALL MEDIA, Bay Area Zeta Players and the Inferno Theater Festival.

Credits & Specifications
Charlie Stuip, (Writer, Director)
Roma Edwards, (Producer)
Marcus Batto, (Director of Photography)

Key Cast
Lucy Urbano, "Dawn"
Tom Sosnik, "Mike"

Production Budget: 273 USD
Country of Origin: United States
Country of Filming: United States
Shooting Format: iPhone
Student Project: Yes - UCLA Film and Television

Michael Workman

Michael Workman is a choreographer, language, visual and movement artist, dance and performance artist, writer, reporter, and sociocultural critic. In addition to his work at the Chicago Tribune, Guardian US, Newcity magazine, WBEZ Chicago Public Radio and elsewhere, Workman is also Director of Bridge, an artistic collective and 501 (c) (3) publishing and programming organization (bridge-chicago.org). His choreographic writing has been included in Propositional Attitudes, an "anthology of recent performance scores, directions and instructions" published by Golden Spike Press, and his Perfect Worlds: Artistic Forms & Social Imaginaries Vol. 1, the first in a 3-volume series, was released by StepSister Press in October 2018 with a day-long program of performances at the Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago. Most recently, two of his scores were accepted for publication in a special edition of the Notre Dame Review focusing on the work of participants in the &NOW Festival of Innovative Writing.

https://michaelworkmanstudio.com
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