Actress CHERYL FRANCIS HARRINGTON has been telling her फ्रेंड्स about all her dating escapades for years. Now, she’s telling everyone in her new solo दिखाना “I MET SOMEONE!” which debuts at the Hollywood Fringe Festival this month.
Cheryl has earned a solid reputation as a stage actress in Los Angeles receiving an NAACP Image Theatre Award for her performance in the one act play “AH-Ha Moments: बटरस्कॉच, butterscotch & Fudge,” and was nominated for an LA Drama Critics वृत्त Award for her leading role as Annetta Barton in the Los Angeles Actors Theatre production of “Eden.” On the small screen, she’s lent her voice as series regular The Haiti Lady on Eddie Murphy's hit animated दिखाना “The PJ's” and has been seen on-camera in the टेलीविज़न shows, including “Up All Night,” “Criminal Minds,” “Glee” and “Brothers & Sisters.” Some of her feature film credits include “The Under Shepard,” “Into the Wild,” “Sgt. Bilko” and “Lethal Weapon.”
I recently had a chance to catch up with this talented lady to find out और about her new solo stage दिखाना “I MET SOMEONE!”
HOLLY: Tell us a little about your new solo show.
CHERYL: “I MET SOMEONE!” is the poignantly funny story of my winding escapades with the opposite sex. I share with आप highlights of my many of my male relationships going from one relationship to the next, with a seemingly endless parade of disappointing dates, sewn together द्वारा years of self-help guru’s trying to assist my struggle to find ‘Mr. Right’ and my desperate attempts to make a meaningful connection with two father figures, both of whom I never come to know. Themes of self-esteem, belonging, and the tenuous structure of the contemporary black family quietly frame the edges of this riveting dramedy.
HOLLY: Where did आप find the inspiration for the show?
CHERYL: This is my life! I’ve longed for a relationship with a man, beginning with my Fathers. My desire to have a relationship has occupied 98% of my conversations. So I finally कहा let me get this off my chest. Besides I was tired of being lonely and complaining about it.
HOLLY: What’s been the biggest challenge working on this show? How about
the greatest reward?
CHERYL: The biggest challenge has been learning my lines -- LOL! Yes…I know I wrote it. I found because it is so truthful I have to tell myself that it is ‘ok’ to tell my story…give myself permission to share my story.
The biggest reward has been that I’m living my dream. I always कहा that if after आप see my performance and आप go घर and are washing the dishes, and something I कहा causes a reaction in you, makes आप smile, alters your life in any way…then I’ve done my job. The reaction that people are having pleases and amazes me. Sure, I also want the TV series and the security of earning the required amount in Sag-Aftra to have Plan A Medical benefits.
HOLLY: What’s surprised आप the most while creating this show?
CHERYL: That I can write. When it comes from truth it just flows.
HOLLY: What would आप like audiences to take away after seeing your show?
CHERYL: Bloom where आप are planted, it’s never too late, have a glimmer of hope the size of a grain of sand. आप are enough. Repeat after me…I am, I am, I am!
We think so too, Cheryl!! Can't wait to hear even और from आप in the future.
Keep shouting "I MET SOMEONE!"
For information about Cheryl Francis Harrington
and her new solo दिखाना visit: www.MetSomeone.com
“I MET SOMEONE!” Debuts at the Hollywood Fringe Festival
with performances on June 14th and 21st, 2012
Cheryl has earned a solid reputation as a stage actress in Los Angeles receiving an NAACP Image Theatre Award for her performance in the one act play “AH-Ha Moments: बटरस्कॉच, butterscotch & Fudge,” and was nominated for an LA Drama Critics वृत्त Award for her leading role as Annetta Barton in the Los Angeles Actors Theatre production of “Eden.” On the small screen, she’s lent her voice as series regular The Haiti Lady on Eddie Murphy's hit animated दिखाना “The PJ's” and has been seen on-camera in the टेलीविज़न shows, including “Up All Night,” “Criminal Minds,” “Glee” and “Brothers & Sisters.” Some of her feature film credits include “The Under Shepard,” “Into the Wild,” “Sgt. Bilko” and “Lethal Weapon.”
I recently had a chance to catch up with this talented lady to find out और about her new solo stage दिखाना “I MET SOMEONE!”
HOLLY: Tell us a little about your new solo show.
CHERYL: “I MET SOMEONE!” is the poignantly funny story of my winding escapades with the opposite sex. I share with आप highlights of my many of my male relationships going from one relationship to the next, with a seemingly endless parade of disappointing dates, sewn together द्वारा years of self-help guru’s trying to assist my struggle to find ‘Mr. Right’ and my desperate attempts to make a meaningful connection with two father figures, both of whom I never come to know. Themes of self-esteem, belonging, and the tenuous structure of the contemporary black family quietly frame the edges of this riveting dramedy.
HOLLY: Where did आप find the inspiration for the show?
CHERYL: This is my life! I’ve longed for a relationship with a man, beginning with my Fathers. My desire to have a relationship has occupied 98% of my conversations. So I finally कहा let me get this off my chest. Besides I was tired of being lonely and complaining about it.
HOLLY: What’s been the biggest challenge working on this show? How about
the greatest reward?
CHERYL: The biggest challenge has been learning my lines -- LOL! Yes…I know I wrote it. I found because it is so truthful I have to tell myself that it is ‘ok’ to tell my story…give myself permission to share my story.
The biggest reward has been that I’m living my dream. I always कहा that if after आप see my performance and आप go घर and are washing the dishes, and something I कहा causes a reaction in you, makes आप smile, alters your life in any way…then I’ve done my job. The reaction that people are having pleases and amazes me. Sure, I also want the TV series and the security of earning the required amount in Sag-Aftra to have Plan A Medical benefits.
HOLLY: What’s surprised आप the most while creating this show?
CHERYL: That I can write. When it comes from truth it just flows.
HOLLY: What would आप like audiences to take away after seeing your show?
CHERYL: Bloom where आप are planted, it’s never too late, have a glimmer of hope the size of a grain of sand. आप are enough. Repeat after me…I am, I am, I am!
We think so too, Cheryl!! Can't wait to hear even और from आप in the future.
Keep shouting "I MET SOMEONE!"
For information about Cheryl Francis Harrington
and her new solo दिखाना visit: www.MetSomeone.com
“I MET SOMEONE!” Debuts at the Hollywood Fringe Festival
with performances on June 14th and 21st, 2012