Jessica Abrams - FishbowlLA http://www.mediabistro.com/fishbowlla LA Media News, Unspooled Copyright 2013 Tue, 21 May 2013 19:56:03 +0000 http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss http://wordpress.org/?v=3.4.1 Former Disney Assistant Channels Frustrations Into Stage Play Mention the words “The Laughing Cow” and most people think of a cartwheel of tasty, mid-priced soft cheese. But presently, at least through May 20, this is also the name of a play being performed at the Meta Theatre on Melrose.

Hollywood Patch guest editor James F. Mills caught up with the work’s author, Jessica Abrams. Formerly an assistant on the Disney lot, she sourced her experiences at the Mouse House for a comedy set at fictional Gurnsey Studios, where a gay attorney gets in trouble for writing a pamphlet:

“I first got the idea when working at Disney,” said Abrams, a New York City native who was raised in Chapel Hill, NC. “I was walking back to my car and this idea came to me. I felt like it was a way to express a lot of the frustration I had working there and the weirdness all around.”

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]]> Richard Horgan http://www.mediabistro.com/fishbowlla/walt-disney-studios-jessica-abrams-laughing-cow-meta-theatre_b62457#disqus_thread http://www.mediabistro.com/fishbowlla/walt-disney-studios-jessica-abrams-laughing-cow-meta-theatre_b62457 http://www.mediabistro.com/fishbowlla/?p=62457 Fri, 18 May 2012 10:45:58 +0000