jk, it's me jenny!: The Barrington Collective

Let me tell you a quick story-

I have these two best friends at East 15- Katie and JoJo.

We decided we wanted to start a theatre company- for lots of reasons. We wanted to go to Edinburgh Fringe Festival this August, we wanted to create a vehicle for ourselves and others to tell new stories, and we wanted to continue to hang out with each other all of the time.

What is #edfringe, you ask? Fringe is the biggest arts festival in the world and hosts over 3,000 theatrical shows every year for the month of August in beautiful, beautiful Scotland. It's a crazy opportunity that for broke American actors seems kinda unreachable. Thankfully, being in grad school in London makes the process a tad bit easier.

So we started a theatre company- The Barrington Collective, to be exact.

Then I made this cross stitch, because Christmas break.

We picked two projects to work with for Ed Fringe 2015 - Katie's one-woman show Pith - born out of our original monologue projects from our first year - and also...a show I wrote. Which is weird and scary and cool and all of those things in between.

Then I got obsessed with minimalist posters one night and made this thing.

Don't you wanna know what it's about? (Just humor me and say yes.)

Onstage are 3 different pairs of people in 3 different relationships working through 3 different issues. Their story lines play out concurrently on top of each other with certain dialogue, props, and space being shared, but without the couples being aware of each other. Confused yet? Good.

We got three of our amazing classmates to sign on with us.