Actress Hila Melamed joins the cast of Grace, Sponsored by Monteverde
Actress Hila Melamed, best known for her breakthrough role in Picnic, has solidified herself over the years as one of the rising stars of Hollywood. Now, with multiple new projects on the horizon, Hila will also be seen on stages playing Rosalie in the play "Grace, Sponsored by Monteverde". The play written by Vanessa Garcia is produced by JustA Theater & Production Co.
Los Angeles, California, May 30, 2015 (Newswire.com) - Actress Hila Melamed, best known for her breakthrough role in Picnic, has solidified herself over the years as one of the rising stars of Hollywood. Now, with multiple new projects on the horizon, Hila will also be seen on stages playing Rosalie in the play “Grace, Sponsored by Monteverde”. The play written by Vanessa Garcia is produced by JustA Theater & Production Co.
ABOUT THE PLAY
Catherine has just divorced Sebastian, but her spirits are more fervent than ever. She begins traveling through the United States in an RV sponsored by rum brand Monteverde. Along the way, she picks up strays — a wayward nun named Rosalie who has just gone through deep loss, another reporter names Lewis and a teenaged girl named Blake. Together they are trying to uncover journalistic stories in each of the fifty states. Looking for the new American identity.
In broad strokes, Grace… is largely a play about contemporary American culture and women within it. It deals with the search for selfhood in all its humor, humility, embarrassment, and struggle.
ABOUT HILA MELAMED:
Hila is an Israeli ethnic actress. Hila is known for playing groundbreaking lead roles in films such as, “Savant”, “Midnight Affair”, and “Children of Satan”. Hila is also known for her sold out performances in theaters across America is shows such as Is Biz, where Hila used her bilingual abilities to perform a whole show in Hebrew, A Taste of Theater where Hila co-stared with the wonderfully talented Maya Eshet (Teen Wolf), The Pulitzer award winning play “Picnic” where she played Madge and enjoyed a full house every night, Israel Horovitz’s “North Shore Fish” where she played Arlyn, Broadway Care’s Shakespeare Benefit 2012 & 2015 where she acted as Host, “Living in a Movie” where she acted as the Host, “I Gave Her My Life” where she played Natalie. Ms. Melamed has also appeared on Television on an Israeli TV show “Tzinor Lyla” with Guy Larer, a music video with Noel Calloway called “Upgrade”, and a viral YouTube production known as “Crazy Ball” that generated more than half million views!
You can follow her on Twitter at @Hilame
ABOUT JUSTA THEATER & PRODUCTION COMPANY:
JustA Theater & Production Company is committed to highlighting the work of bold, female and ethnically diverse artists in each of our productions, providing them with multi-dimensional, complex, intelligent characters to explore. We feel such roles for women and the ethnically diverse are still grossly under-represented in theatre and film. We are drawn to exciting new works that aim to eliminate this imbalance, and challenge other members of the artistic community to support and lift these daring new voices.
JustA also believes in utilizing nonrealistic, surreal and/or absurd elements as a method to raise storytelling past the ordinary objects and interactions of everyday life, in order to reach a new, more profound understanding of humanity and the world around us.