Actress CHERYL FRANCIS HARRINGTON has been telling her vrienden about all her dating escapades for years. Now, she’s telling everyone in her new solo toon “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: toffee, butterscotch & Fudge,” and was nominated for an LA Drama Critics cirkel 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 toon “The PJ's” and has been seen on-camera in the televisie 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 meer about her new solo stage toon “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 u 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 door 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 u 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 zei 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 zei that if after u see my performance and u go home pagina and are washing the dishes, and something I zei causes a reaction in you, makes u 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 u the most while creating this show?
CHERYL: That I can write. When it comes from truth it just flows.
HOLLY: What would u like audiences to take away after seeing your show?
CHERYL: Bloom where u are planted, it’s never too late, have a glimmer of hope the size of a grain of sand. u are enough. Repeat after me…I am, I am, I am!
We think so too, Cheryl!! Can't wait to hear even meer from u in the future.
Keep shouting "I MET SOMEONE!"
For information about Cheryl Francis Harrington
and her new solo toon 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: toffee, butterscotch & Fudge,” and was nominated for an LA Drama Critics cirkel 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 toon “The PJ's” and has been seen on-camera in the televisie 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 meer about her new solo stage toon “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 u 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 door 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 u 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 zei 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 zei that if after u see my performance and u go home pagina and are washing the dishes, and something I zei causes a reaction in you, makes u 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 u the most while creating this show?
CHERYL: That I can write. When it comes from truth it just flows.
HOLLY: What would u like audiences to take away after seeing your show?
CHERYL: Bloom where u are planted, it’s never too late, have a glimmer of hope the size of a grain of sand. u are enough. Repeat after me…I am, I am, I am!
We think so too, Cheryl!! Can't wait to hear even meer from u in the future.
Keep shouting "I MET SOMEONE!"
For information about Cheryl Francis Harrington
and her new solo toon visit: www.MetSomeone.com
“I MET SOMEONE!” Debuts at the Hollywood Fringe Festival
with performances on June 14th and 21st, 2012
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